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Role of Women in Three Norse Sagas

This paper discusses the role of women in three Norse sagas. The writer argues that "Njal's Saga" and "Laxdaela's S...

Professional Occupations and the Progression of Women in the Workplace

In ten pages this paper discuses how women have progressed in the workplace in this overview of professional occupations, blue col...

India's Workplace and Women

This paper on India's workplace considers the discrimination and poor working conditions women face with the Self Employed Women's...

A Review of The Clerk's Tale and Traffic in Women

A 10 page exploration of the 1975 contentions of anthropologist Gayle Rubin. Her article, The Traffic in Women Notes on the Poli...

Women, Gardening, and Artist Mary Cassatt

In five and a half pages this paper examines how women and gardening are thematically portrayed in the uses of composition, perspe...

Different Cultures for Women in America

Women in America do not have a monolithic cultural experience. This paper examines the difference between Chicano and African-Amer...

Women's Role in Nazi Germany Researched By Claudia Koonz

The research of Claudia Koonz is the focus of this paper on the role of women in the Third Reich. She concludes that far from bein...

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Pagan and Jewish Women

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...

Fear, Residence, Elderly Women, and Crime

In eight pages the relationship between the housing arrangements of elderly women, their fear regarding crime and why they might b...

Modern Society and Gender Roles

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how gender roles are defined regarding men and women in Iron John's Regarding the Dif...

Public Welfare and the Roles of Women According to Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and John Stuart Mill

In six pages public welfare is examined with the focus being on women's contributions in a consideration of such texts as 'Of Woma...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

More Than a Century and a Half of Contributions by Women to the Labor Movement

This paper considers how since the nineteenth century women have contributed to the labor movement and the workforce with African ...

Work, Women, and a Constant Balancing Act

In eight page this paper discusses working women in an overview of the delicate balance women must maintain between home and work,...

Japan and Gender Differences

were related to religion. Certain scripture regularly challenged women to disprove that they were inferior-to not agree was heres...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Sexual Images of Women in the Media

to satisfy the demand of their target market. Each of these magazines will appeal to a different sections of the female populati...

Magazine Culture and Women

together as a result of the magazines they choose to read. This results in the strengthening of the womens voice and societys ten...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Women's Athletics and Equity

later, it would be reasonable to assume that all educational institutions had eliminated gender-oriented discriminatory practices ...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

Women's Special Interest Groups in Canada

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...

British Workforce and the Growing Participation of Women Since the Second World War

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

Sexuality During the 12th Century

practices were dictated by the church or by the state, there were certain rules and regulations which governed the act, and in fac...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Women and Depression

by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45) -- and this lists but a few of many such manifestations. Depression related to eati...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Women

And yet, it is apparent that Okonkwo behaves in this manner because he is filled with a great deal of fear. Above all else, he fe...

Research Methodology on Women and the Glass Ceiling

the complexities of human behavior" (Greenhalgh 740). The researcher, being the prime instrument of data collection, is responsib...

Chen Yuan-tsung's 'The Dragon's Village'

promising land reform has achieved a broad political peasant base. The Red Army is being recruited from Jiangxi. Chiang Kai-shek...