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Females in the American Political Process

The years spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were an interesting time in regard to the progressive role of...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

After the Civil War and the Role of Women in Virginia

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

First World War and Significance of Women's Roles

Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...

Japan and Traditional Women's Role

This paper discusses Japan's society in terms of the role women have traditionally played such as wife, geisha, and also examines ...

French Revolution and the Role of Women

XIV was only a child or at best a very young and inexperienced man. This was a time when, although he was officially the king, it...

Urban France and the Role of Women in Revolts for Social Change

French military setbacks in 1646 and after it became apparent that the Spanish war would go on despite negotiations to bring peace...

The Piano Lesson and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson

The roles of women in these plays by August Wilson are discussed. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Role and Status of Women in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

way to a jousting tournament rematch with the mysterious Green Knight, Sir Gawain is the houseguest of the absent Lord Bercilak, a...

3 Women in Odysseus's Life in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...

Machisma And Machismo In The Plays of Lorca and Marquez

other because they are in competition for available males. They are devious toward each other as well as toward their mother beca...

Short Story by John Cheever

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the short story called The Country Husband. This paper includes issues of trying to escape ...

Women, Society and Gender/Rome, India and Han China

to many other like-minded societies, Romans looked upon women as possessions to be treated in often a violent manner. What this i...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Critical Analysis

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

Strong Women in Ancient Greek Theatre

the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing and Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper discusses how the traditional and nontraditional roles of women are represented in Hero and Bianca, and Be...

Mortal Women in the Iliad

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

The Role of Women During the Enlightenment and the Romantic Eras

the Age of Enlightenment was formed, at its core, by "Empiricism and a rationalistic doctrine of natural rights... they also held ...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright on Women's Subjugation

In ten pages this report takes the form of a letter that examines the global subjugation of women and the role played by the Unite...

Culture of China and the Role of Women

An analysis of Chinese culture and the roles women have historically played are examined in a research paper consisting of fifteen...

British Women During the Victorian Era

The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

Women and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

focusing especially graphically on his Aunt Hesters assault by her master, and the abandonment of his grandmother by the master af...

June A. Willenz's Women Veterans America's forgotten Heroines

throughout the history of war and as such were also beneficial to contributing to the National Defense. But she also discovered th...

Broadcasting and Women

This research paper considers the limited role women still play in the broadcasting industry in six pages. Twelve sources are cit...