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Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

'Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution,' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

The Repression of Women in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

research paper on Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper". I have chosen this story primarily because of its aesthetic interest to me, in t...

Women in the Workforce Pregnancy and Wage Discrimination

a consequence, one court case after another was being tried. The outcome of these cases resulted in a continuing evolution in the...

Hamlet and Women - a Poor Relationship

his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...

Contemporary Muslim Women

womans role in relation to her society in somewhat different ways. The differences between the Shia and Sunni sects are particula...

Black American Women and Interlocking Oppression

words, when it comes to oppression, people are not necessarily held back due only to their gender, or their color, but a combinati...

Glorida Anzaldua's 1980 Letter to Women Writers of the Third World

concerning the proprietary message of mainstream society that writing is a privileged activity, that is, a white activity. Havin...

Women Viewed During the Enlightenment Era

nature. De Gouges (2003) looks at the same natural world and challenges Enlightenment philosophers to give her an example in natur...

Ethnographic Study of Lack of Women and Minority College Faculty Representation

for the under representation. The first rationale is that there are relatively few minority students in doctoral programs, and t...

True Love and Phenomenal Women

the stereotypical feminine behavior of Woolfs era. In order to be a journalist, Woolf explains how she had to kill "the Angel" and...

Women of Edward Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

the two female characters who interacted in literature with Edward Rochester, one notices differences - and similarities - in thei...

Women in Labor and Pain Control's Cultural Aspects

pain and also in how nurses from various cultures perceive the pain of their patients. As this suggests, Weber (1996) provides a c...

Book Review of Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835

Perdue (1999) examines the role of gender in Cherokee life during one of the most turbulent times of their history. During the...

Pregnant Women on Drugs Combating Stereotypes and Stigma by Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum

or no more than six months postpartum, who had used "heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine" during their pregnancies and were not in ...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

Incarcerated Women with Children and Correctional Programs

For countless numbers of women, their crime and subsequent incarceration are the outcomes of other painful life experiences. Lopez...

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...

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...

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 ...

Power in Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and 1984 by George Orwell

big cities, parents were sent to jail on the testimony of their children, politicians changed their records and no one noticed, ne...

Assessment of the Concerned Women for America Website

does accurately describe the organizations mission. When one hears the name, and also has the information that the women are ass...

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...

Arguing That for Women Pornography is Damaging

obviously submissive, if not threatened, position. She uses the words of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography to define por...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

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 ...

New Republic of the Eighteenth Century, Women, and Marriage

this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...