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Judith and Her Maidservant with The Head Of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...

Feminist Views on Women in Afghanistan Under the Taliban Rule

An article on the Taliban rule in Afghanistan and how it has oppressed women is discussed through an application of Joan Scott's f...

'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

Contemporary British Sports and Feminist Theory

This inequality is based upon the perception that they are the weaker gender. Feminist theory is an attempt to break through esta...

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and Gender Roles

implied that she marries him because he is wealthy and has much to offer her. That she is in love is made clear, but there is alwa...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Feminists Sylvia Plath and Cary Churchill and Their Literary Messages

societal need. Plath and Churchill would both serve as vehicles through which we can not only better understand these injustices ...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Feminist Discourse in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

Feminist Perspective of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

Feminism and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

low energy. Small conservative town in New England, but situated in the progressive atmosphere of an University. This is very symb...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

John Donne's Feminist Poetry

This paper details a feminist reading of three John Donne Poems, The Undertaking, A Valediction, and The Good Morrow. The author ...

Women and Their Religious Ordination

take pleasure in the marital act; that killing infidels was a way to salvation; that taking interest on a loan was forbidden; that...

The Holy Spirit and Feminist Perspective

This paper examines the possibility of a feminist perspective with regard to The Holy Spirit, the third entity in The Holy Trinity...

Reshaping Gender Thought

In seven pages this paper examines the reshaping of gender thought through feminist anthropology in an overview of theories by bel...

Femininity and Purpose

In five pages this paper discusses 3 feminist articles regarding male oppression of females with Georgia O'Keeffe being the primar...

Has the Feminist Movement Been Successful?

In five pages this research paper argues that US society has been significantly changed as the result of a successful feminist mov...

Coaching Across the Gender Gap

New ideas on gender roles espoused by the feminist movement have resulted in women taking positions that were heretofore denied th...

Myth and Reality of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra

in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...

Proto Feminism in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper contrasts Ophelia and Cleopatra in order to determine whether or not they reflect the proto feminist views...

Feminist Leaders, Then and Now

This research paper discusses Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary P. Ryan, and Alice Paul. The author addresses their various contributions t...

Biography of Gloria Steinem

In ten pages the life and career of Gloria Steinem are featured in this biography that describes her childhood, writings, and soci...

Feminist Movement and Organizational Dynamics

In five pages this essay examines the feminist movement in a consideration of organizational dynamics. Ten sources are cited in t...

Feminist Thought by Rosemarie Tong

for equal work theories, and Radical Feminism, which considers the historical domination of men over women and the elements of opp...

Marital and Sexual Options

In seven pages this paper discusses how women globally are electing to escape from the traditional marriage construct in a conside...

Analysis of Sociology's Feminist Views

ignored. Suddenly, the Industrial Revolution swept over Europe and America, and Western societies were never quite the same. Wom...

Exotic Dancers, The Ultimate Feminists, or Gender Slaves

the sociological elements that have supported the subjugation of women, and the perspectives offered by women who support the righ...

A Feminist Perspective for a Psychology Practitioner

individual women (Walker. 1990). It is my belief that we live within a culture that has created inherent inequities based on gend...