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Essays 1801 - 1830

Religion, Feminism, and the Goddess

of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...

Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Critically Analyzed

fall apart, the truth is laid open for the reader to see. In reality, it is the women who are silently stoic because theirs is the...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

Male and Female Relationships in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

Female Circumcision and Practice Elimination by Anthropologists

gender is not readily acknowledged within the stifling boundaries of a patriarchal society. As a direct result of societal dictat...

Fold Theory in the Arts and in the Time and Space of the Female Body

the folding of womens existence and the reaffirming and reinventing of the feminine concept is still prevalent. The Fold: The F...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

Women and the Female Body as Portrayed in Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

quoted is the translation done by Denys Johnson Davies in 1989, and English readers feel that in many instances flavors of the nu...

Hurdles Faced by Female Athletes Over Forty

healthy levels of physical activity" (Coe PG). Under the category of physiological aspects, one might readily apply the ele...

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...

Female Inmate Incarceration

effective. The differences which exist between men and women inmates in the prison system range from differences in need fo...

Comparison of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Emma by Jane Austen

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

Phenomenal Women in Literature

Such is the case, in my experiences in reading the authors noted above. No one can contest the fact that these women have indeed ...

Pornography Censorship Letter to the Editor

Parker contends the concentrated efforts of the anti-pornography feminists divert the publics attention from "constructive approac...

Gender Vignette Composition Tutorial

which could include shame, confusion, or the desire to prove the math teachers assumptions as false. Even today, with equal right...

Adolescent Girls' Sexuality and the Impact of Divorce

have noted that sexual activity among girls from single-parent homes is greater than among those who live in "blended" families. G...

Education and Gender Inequality

al, 1988). Obviously, these are old-time descriptions of the roles men and women were expected to assume in decades past. These ro...

Brunei and How Women Are Treated

military action. This to some extent mimics ideals around the world where women are protected from active combat. In the United St...

America and Being Black and Female

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

Catholic Tradition Aspects

that the entire Christian movement was galvanized and energized by an unseen agency, the Holy Spirit (Ottati 1044). Believers in J...

RAP MUSIC AND PERPETUATION OF MISOGYNY

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

Ann Jones/ "Women Who Kill"

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Women

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Fashion Research Paper on Interchangeable Pockets or Hoods

market compared to the older teenage market (Simpson et al, 1998). This is a trend that does not appear to be decreasing (Euromoni...

Zambia's Female Trade

skills suited to their new environment, meant huge changes for the socioeconomic system; in particular, it meant that "there were ...

Gender Understanding and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

Feminine Cinematic Construction in Christopher Strong and La Maternelle

film La Maternelle (The Nursery School) begins with the story of Rose, who has been forced by the men in her life - her fathers ba...