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Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

Social Influence of Mary Richmond

was primarily what she was seeing come into the charities for help. She was part of the leading association for The American Ass...

Arguing That for Women Pornography is Damaging

obviously submissive, if not threatened, position. She uses the words of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography to define por...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

Women's Contributions and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

Discontent and Domesticity

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

True Love, Women's Desires, and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages twelve lines of this famous tale are analyzed in terms of how it provides a true love commentary and represents an e...

Frances Heidensohn's Women in Control?

the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...

Society and Women's Place According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

Beauty Pageants

contributing to the betterment of the world in which she lives. For example, "Miss National Pre-Teen" was created in 1980 a...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

In five pages this paper considers the controversy over women's rights that continues in an examination of this 1792 book by Mary ...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

Women and the Film Portrait of Teresa

In seven pages this paper examines the movie Portrait of Teresa in an examination of women's struggles and the control exerted by ...

Analyzing 'The Joys of Motherhood' by Buchi Emecheta

find "something she was good at" (Holmes PG). Much of the young Buchi Emecheta can be found in the female protagonist, Nnu Ego, i...

Iran's Development and the Effects of Women's Rights Issues

In five pages this paper examines Iran's economic development and the impact of women's rights. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Overview of the Text When I Was Puerto Rican

In six pages this paper discusses the US and its Puerto Rican culture in a text overview that includes cultural variations, the La...

Three Decades of American Freshmen

In nineteen pages this paper examines the changing American freshman class in a literature overview that includes demographics, hi...

Colonial Fashions and How They Evolved

In six pages this paper discusses the seventeenth and eighteenth century evolution of Quaker men's and women's fashions and how th...

Second World War and Women's Status

In three pages this research paper discusses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath upon women's status in the workp...

Fourteenth to Eighteenth Century Families of Europe and the Roles of Women

Women's roles in European families from 1300 to 1700 are examined in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Somalian Women and Islam

This paper consists of five pages and discusses Somalian women's social position and how it is influenced by the values of Islam. ...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

The Paradox of Change by William H. Chafe

In five pages this historical text regarding American women's twentieth century development is analyzed. There are no other sourc...

Canadian Social Welfare and Abused Women

In seven pages this paper examines Britain's Poor Laws in this consideration of Canada's battered women's movement, its origins an...

1922 to 1945 Fascist Italy and Women

of all types, a contributing factor in the larger economic depression of the 1930s. Fascism in Italy sought to reduce the role of...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

Ancient World and Rights for Women

This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...

Getting Out by Marsha Norman

In 5 pages this paper discusses the dual identities of the 1983 play's protagonist and the dual women's realities of the Sixties a...

1800 to 1820 Fashions for Women

In ten pages this research paper presents an overview of the Regency Period of the 19th century as reflected in women's fashions a...