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Essays 211 - 240
can choose not to marry, by and large, that is an unpopular choice. While the term spinster is no longer bandied about, certainly ...
Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...
the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...
anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...
In seven pages this short story which features a woman's fight to freely live her life despite several mental impairment is presen...
This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...
A paper which takes a personal perspective on Gilman's classic text. Gilman presents a Utopia populated entirely by women, in a na...
In four pages this exemplification essay presents a first person narrative that considers a young woman's procrastination problems...
In 2 pages the 'debate about women' during this time period are examined in a discussion of Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, an...
This 5 page essay compares and contrasts A Vindication of the Rights of a Woman and Give Her a Pattern classic, works by Mary Woll...
In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...
him, has him exhume Estradas body and for Norton to accompany him on a journey across country to Mexico in order to keep his promi...
In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....
In six pages Geoffrey Chaucer's classic tale is examined from the differing perspectives regarding what Medieval women truly wante...
In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...
A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...
that "ladder of success," or does that mean that they are not on the rung that they would like to be. Since they are the ones who...
the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...
Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
and wrong the past was, as he also introduces what were still subversive ideas concerning race. For example, take the way that Chr...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...
This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...
is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...
Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...
"Cubop," an "appellation (that) aptly symbolizes the new equipollent level of cross-cultural musical integration that differentiat...
every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...