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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...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Feminine Mystique of Betty Friedan and Changes in the Women's Rights Movement

mothers, others were determined that women would now enter the workforce. This struggle continued for at least a decade, subtly ma...

Women's Rights and W.E.B. Du Bois

noble nature against the blighting American cast prejudice". (Ferris, 1913, pg. 599). DuBois recognized...

Labor Movement and the Rights of Women

as an outward attempt to assemble some semblance of organized labor for the overwrought American worker. The primary goals of thi...

US and Rights for Women

a woman becomes pregnant she is urged to quit and stay home with her children, without little realization of what the loss of that...

Legal Cases that Change Society

considered right to life, as well as an individuals right to choose. The Court elected not to address the right to life issue, fo...

Women's Rights Movement Pioneers

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...

Women's Rights Movement and Contributions of the Antislavery Movement

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

Roles and Rights of Women in Works by Kate Chopin and William Faulkner

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

A Woman's Right to Have an Abortion

she actually never had an abortion, and years later wishes her name were not on the court decision and wishes that abortion were n...

Reproductive Rights and the Feminist Debate

to continue to overpopulate a world whose ecology is already in serious danger. Feminist also vary on the issues of technological...

Legality vs. Morality in the Abortion Debate

that fetus. The intrinsic value of life is a question which is constantly being considered in our courtrooms and in the...

Fictitious Oral Interview with a Second World War Wife

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

Macro Economy of the United Arab Emirates

aspects that a government may seek to control or influence, including inflation, unemployment, the balance of trade, foreign inves...

The Evolution Of Women - Feminism

in terms of political and economic equality. We can also say that political feminism officially began with the suffragette movemen...

The Fourteenth Amendment

the objections of the womens movement, the amendment passed with the inclusion of the offensive and unjust focus on male voters. ...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Women’s Rights and Islam: Sunni vs Shia

to confront the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The Shiites, in contrast, felt like this position was destined to be filled w...

Women's Rights and Abortion

In five pages this paper discusses women's rights as they relate to the topic of abortion. There are nine bibliographic sources c...

Female 'Pro Choice' Reproductive Decision Making

But, participants agree, talk in and of itself is enormously valuable. A pro-choice member, may lay out his ideas on how to reduc...

Social Issues in Brazil

wealthy elite and a massively poor population; women are making strides but injustice and problems based on gender are rampant; an...

Women's Rights Issues and Latin America

In twelve pages Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia are examined in a consideration of the present status of women's rig...

Women's Rights and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

clause. In fact, the court gave V.M.I. and the commonwealth of Virginia (a co-defendant in the case) three options which would sat...

Change Through Protest

In eight pages this paper examines social change through protest in a consideration of the civil rights and women's liberation mov...

Richard Epstein and Catherine MacKinnon's Perspectives on Law and Women's Rights

as pornography and rape, ordinarily fall into the womans domain. Feminist groups continue to fight for womens rights while others ...

Women's Problems, Differences in Gender, and Equal Rights

In five pages a consideration of various issues and problems pertaining to women's equal rights is presented in a for and against ...

Leisure Lifestyles of Women and Cassandra by Florence Nightingale

In five pages this paper discusses women's rights and giving meaning to life as conceptualized by Florence Nightingale, the founde...