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Essays 1981 - 2010

Women's Lives in the East and in Southeast Asia Present and Past

Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intolerance and characteristic skepticism f...

Ancient Greece and Women's Roles

Artemis, and her hair was cut. For the next several months the bride was taught the domestic duties she would perform for the rest...

Solving the Problem of the Homemaker in Feminist Culture

most comfortable for her. This is true whether an individual woman chooses to take work outside her home as the CEO of the worlds...

Women in Politics and the Effects of Culture

to winning. One can imagine that it would take a great deal of effort for a female Buddhist or Muslim or Jew to get anywhere in p...

Women's Rights, Working Hours, and the 1908 Case of Muller v. Oregon

law passed in 1905 that prevented the women working for more than ten hours a day. Muller argued that this was unconstitutional, a...

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...

Media and Women

creatures that nurture and tend house. We can look at almost any television commercial and note that women are often the ones t...

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

forced to make in their lives regarding who and what they will ultimately become as individuals. "Top" Women of History The chara...

Women of Color and Print Media

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

Women of Ancient Greece and Rome

of their bodies and exercise often, sometimes along with the men, and sometimes by themselves" (Anonymous Legal Status in the Gree...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

Trafficking of Women Yesterday and Today

gain. There are a variety of factors which impact trafficking and an understanding of a few of them will highlight the point that...

Richard Wright and Alice Munro's Perspectives on Women

contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

International Women's Movements and Issues of Globalization

issues is a situation which traces its roots far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by...

Females in the Media, Heroism and Violence

statement, but a truth. Women are, by nature, very different from men and thus do not aggressively involve themselves in violence ...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Studying Lifestyles of Sedentary and Teenage Obesity

obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Women

And yet, it is apparent that Okonkwo behaves in this manner because he is filled with a great deal of fear. Above all else, he fe...

Research Methodology on Women and the Glass Ceiling

the complexities of human behavior" (Greenhalgh 740). The researcher, being the prime instrument of data collection, is responsib...

Japan and Gender Differences

were related to religion. Certain scripture regularly challenged women to disprove that they were inferior-to not agree was heres...

Women and Depression

by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45) -- and this lists but a few of many such manifestations. Depression related to eati...

Women's Rights and Islamic Veiling Perceptions

To understand the relative impact of veiling upon Islamic women we must delve into the culture, religion and politics of Islam. I...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

Sexuality During the 12th Century

practices were dictated by the church or by the state, there were certain rules and regulations which governed the act, and in fac...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Women's Athletics and Equity

later, it would be reasonable to assume that all educational institutions had eliminated gender-oriented discriminatory practices ...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...