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called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

In the Hebrew Bible, women have varying roles but the most important roles are wife and mother. Most often, they are not seen as e...

to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

filed the vast majority of sexual harassment cases, illustrating the fact that sexism still remains a very real problem for women ...

patients did not respond to the same antidepressant drug. Individuals taking desipramine were successfully switched to amitriptyli...

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

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...

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, eng...

considered is observation. Direct interview techniques can be important as well, however, in analyzing why these women continue t...

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

and Pocock, 2010). The question that is addressed in this paper is to assess if this is having a disproportionate impact on women ...