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Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

The Renaissance and Female Composers

a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Reformation Christian Witch Hunts and Women

already disintegrating old faith. Growing social unrest during that particular era had found expression in witchcraft as well as i...

Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how black women's experiences are captured in Naylor's book Women of Brewster Plac...

More Than a Century and a Half of Contributions by Women to the Labor Movement

This paper considers how since the nineteenth century women have contributed to the labor movement and the workforce with African ...

Post War Propaganda Posters and the Spanish Civil War

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Civil War's Medical Conditions

In seven pages this paper examines the changes that occurred in medicine as a result of the U.S. civil war and how these changes i...

Exploring the Civil War's Causes

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

US Civil War's Turning Points

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

Civil Rights Act of 1991

charges of intentional discrimination.4 Furthermore, the 1991 Act broadened the language of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and extended...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

“American Women in Flight Since 1940”: Insight into a Woman’s Place in Our Society

Much has been written about how womens societal roles have changed over the history of our country. One of the more interesting i...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Questions and Answers on Early Nineteenth Century English History (1800-1840)

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

Women as Viewed by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages women's status during the time of D.H. Lawrence is considered in an exploration of his view of them as reflected in ...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

The Civil Rights Act of 1991

it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Female Characters in Coriolanus and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

Discontent and Domesticity

their children for the world (May). This was then their own contribution to the workplace and to the national effort (May)....

Portrayal of Chinese and German Women During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

In five pages the ways in which Chinese and German women were portrayed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are contras...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Women's Issues and Racism

In 6 pages this paper considers the Reconstruction era until the 1930s in a discussion of how changes affected women's issues and ...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

New Media and Margaret Sanger

In five pages this paper examines the public criticism directed at women's reproductive rights' crusader Margaret Sanger in a cons...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....