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The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

American Artists and Art from 1900 to 1950 Annotated Bibliography

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

Cervical or Breast Cancer and the High Incidences in African American Women

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Ar'n't I a Woman? and White and Enslaved Women

womanhood was physically weak and dependent on a man for support. African women, however, were judged to be strong enough to earn ...

Economic and Cultural Adversity Effects on the Women of Ethiopia

Bogalech Aldemu of the Womens Affairs Department of Ethiopias Prime Minister contends that gender discrimination not only exists i...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

Battered Child and Battered Woman Syndrome Legal Overview

Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "batte...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

Female Sexuality and Racial Differences

female sexuality. This fact is universal. Female sexuality threatens the male on a fundamental level. First and foremost, human be...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

Rural Southwest Queensland Australia and Developing a Breast Cancer Screening Program

2002). Finally, the paper notes that there should be an adequate screening test that is "capable of detecting the susceptibility, ...

History of American Women

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

Wolfgang Mozart's Opera The Magic Flute and Its Depiction of Women

is angry she escaped and he is angry that he did not get what he wanted, sex from Pamina. This clearly establishes an attitude tow...

Misconceptions About African Women in Literature

family. He rejects anything feminine and never displays anything remotely resembling passivity. This contention is reflected in ...

U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

technology that would be more accessible to everyone through a common language" (OHanlon, 2001)....

Tang Dynasty and the Evolution of Women

civilization that ultimately "wielded great influence on the Tang Dynasty, greatly accelerating its progress" (Jianying, 1991, p. ...

Scientific Community and the Future of Women

more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be disting...

Analysis of Bio Psycho Social Case Study

from observation and that which was offered by Mrs. R, it is likely there would be quite a few discrepancies that warrant removing...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and Early Feminism

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

Treatment of Women by William Shakespeare in The Taming of the Shrew

worst" (Shakespeare II ii). As such she is highly berated by all that know her, save her sister perhaps. She is ridiculed and seen...

Female Genital Mutilation, Women, and Global Justice

impossible for her to ever derive any enjoyment from the sexual act. This practice is suppose to ensure that women remain chaste a...

Women and Geoffrey Chaucer

to some extent. One critics opinion seems to support such a perspective: "The Wife of Baths negative image seems only to have chan...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

Feminist Literature and Issues

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Conservative Muslim Women and the Difficulties Encountered When Living in Western Countries

and those who resist equality are vilified. In a culture where gender is a key determinant of the role in society equality is not ...