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Women's Movement and Its Origins

In six pages the time period from 1890 to 1920 is the focus of this consideration of how the feminist movement originated. Five s...

Women's Influence Upon Edgar Allan Poe

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Women's Reproductive Autonomy and Assisted Conception Impact

can be very empowering, and in many cases allows women to make self-directed choices in their lives. Assisted conception has allo...

Advertising and Women's Images

in which the female form is used and presented a theoretical paradigm of female may be ascertained and then used as a tool by whic...

Economics and Culture and Ethiopian Women's Lives

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

First World War and Significance of Women's Roles

Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...

United Kingdom's Labor Market and British Women's Position

the home, with the same percentage of non-married women also working (Dex, Joshi and Macran, 1996). When married women first beg...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Women's Opportunities

time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

19th Century Trends, Consumerism, and Women's Fashions

worth a great deal of cash and even on the hip hop scene, gold teeth are something to envy. In some way, this is as true today as ...

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

Germany and Women's Changing Status

the social consideration at the time. The role of the woman was firmly stereotyped, with an expectation that women should stay at ...

Alice Walker and Ellen Glasgow on Wives, Women, and 'the Other Woman'

willing to relegate to someone elses power. In Walkers essay, however, the focus is on pornography and the subtle way in which it ...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Women's Role

IN three pages this paper discusses how Homer depicted women in the epic 'The Odyssey' with Penelope being the primary focus of an...

Nabokov's Lolita, Women's Role, and Pedophilia

In ten pages this paper discusses this infamous novel in terms of how the social roles of women and pedophilia issues are intertwi...

Women's Roles in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Tartuffe by Moliere

In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...

Women's Role in Candide by Voltaire and Tartuffe by Moliere

anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...

Virginia Woolf's Writings and the Agenda of Women's Rights

. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...

Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Women's Fortitude and Morale

In seven pages this paper examines how the female protagonists in these respective literary works maintain their morale and intern...

Women's Roles In Hansberry's Raisin In The Sun

This paper examines Hansberry's award-winning play and focuses on the importance of various roles played by female characters. Th...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Women's Basketball

In twelve pages this paper examines injuries women can suffer while playing basketball with the impact of gender upon the incidenc...

Women's Backs and the Effects of High Heels

Foot and Ankle Society taken of 1,300 women, half of all working women who wore high heels complained that their feet hurt, and 28...

A Woman's Novel 'Awakening' in the Struggle for Identity

In three pages Maryse Conde's 'Heremakhonon - a Novel' and Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea' are discussed. There are no other sourc...

Women's Roles in Works by William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...

Women's Peace Movement in Israel and Ireland

tortured in a sexual manner before being killed outright or dying from the savagery inflicted upon them (Anonymous, 1996; Murray, ...