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Essays 511 - 540
her, an early sign of emotional sterility and disdain for women however kind they may have been to him" (Mustafa Said-ism). He ...
around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...
politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...
noble nature against the blighting American cast prejudice". (Ferris, 1913, pg. 599). DuBois recognized...
writes this in the 1950s when things were quite different. De Beauvoir examines women through the ages and how they have been seco...
makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...
Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...
discontent with societys lopsided gender scale. The tale begins with Queen Guinevere pondering the fate of a knight who has been ...
independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...
as an outward attempt to assemble some semblance of organized labor for the overwrought American worker. The primary goals of thi...
Paris runways are rather elitist and desirable, the models are near starvation and they represent a new female ideal. Fashion to ...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
the new owners continuing that particular trend (Biesada). Ann Taylor went public in 1991, but continued to suffer under ...
to dehumanize both the invader and the invaded to the extent that the value of human life is lost(Phillips 123). Phillips ...
In five pages this paper discusses the abuse of drugs in this consideration of pregnant women's rights versus the rights of the fe...
of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...
to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...
mothers, others were determined that women would now enter the workforce. This struggle continued for at least a decade, subtly ma...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
to continue to overpopulate a world whose ecology is already in serious danger. Feminist also vary on the issues of technological...
ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...
lounge and diaper changing facility (2001). A concierge with parcel delivery to local hotels is also included (2001). After the t...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
and became the first woman in America to preside over a meeting of both men and women. Afterward, the New York State Legislature p...
forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...
non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...
to be enmeshed, an interesting point of view holds the notion that sex is biological and gender is cultural; others believe that b...
weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...
out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...
and those that are will suffer in varying degrees (What is Premenstrual Syndrome? 2003). Among the many typical symptoms...