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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...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Nurture, Nature, and Gender Roles

a male, well, a male. There is no arguing with biological facts and figures in this context. However, having stated that, it is al...

Barriers According to Gender

do not get the appropriate help they may need in respect to learning disabilities and things of that nature. Kleinfeld (1998) repo...

Bharti Mukherjee's Short Story 'A Father'

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

Health and the Effects of Gender Roles

the need to purge what one had just consumed in order to "return for additional eating, drinking and merriment" (Kuehnel, 2002)....

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Gender

is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Comparison Between The Trojan Women by Euripides and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...

China's Song and Qing Dynasties and Gender Roles

overrun by the Mongols. The Song Dynasty was known for its great changes in the economic and social climates of the country becaus...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Women of the 19th Century and the Issues That Confronted Them

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

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...

'My Bondage and My Freedom' by Frederick Douglass and Gender Issues

not the experiences of a woman and therefor he is not necessarily able to present the reader with a powerful focus on the issues w...

Gender Tolerance Groups in the Military

the success of increased gender education and tolerance as stated by the group members. I. Introduction and Type of Group Since W...

Adolescent Resilience, Gender, and Foster Care

media seems to be sending mixed messages. Disney films routinely show two parent households, but then the characters are often in ...

Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Gender

afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...

Technology and Women

the higher jobs that the males seem to obtain. This technology gap is addressed in AAUWs report (Wolff, 1999). Still, it is a rath...

Estimated IQ Scores and Gender Stereotypes

of IQ would strongly indicate that intelligence level itself does not vary markedly between males and females, this was not the ge...

Overview of Pentecostal Religion

Board of Directors, by a two-thirds majority vote, can suspend or expel a member (PFWB, 1999). Issues that are grounds for expulsi...

Femininity and Psychoanalysis

with masculinity. The fact that the scientific population is, even now, a population that is overwhelmingly male, is itself a cons...

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

The 'Glass Ceiling' in Australia

it appears that the same is true in Australia as well. The existence of the glass ceiling in Australia may well be a...

Environment and Gender

tanker that ultimately dumped eleven million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. The actions of one man under...

Society and Gender

society (Peters 913). Boys are encouraged to embrace active masculine characteristics that will emphasize aggressiveness and enco...