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Middle Ages and Prostitution

In ten pages this paper examines the Middle Ages in terms of how prostitution evolved with the reasons women entered this professi...

Women and Sexuality in Greek Life

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the time of Pericles and the status of gays and women in a contrast and comparison t...

1890 to 1920 New York Factories and Women

were leaving the confines and moral strictures of their families and elders and venturing forth to the large industrial cities suc...

Analyzing the Character of Rosalind in William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'

This 5 page paper emphasizes how Rosalind is a woman truly ahead of her time in Shakespeare's comic farce, stronger and more intel...

Reformation Christian Witch Hunts and Women

already disintegrating old faith. Growing social unrest during that particular era had found expression in witchcraft as well as i...

Italy During the Renaissance Era and the Roles Played by Nonelites and Women

result, court mistresses commonly took on the role of both lover and confidant, creating a lineage through childbearing that suppo...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Reverend William Collins in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

injustice in this situation, but also shows the social results of this predicament, as this insecurity largely accounts for the de...

Theater Women and Their History

In five pages the role of women in theater is the focus of this historical overview that dates back to ancient times. There are 5...

1850 to 1980 British Women's Employment and Education

women; and, more middle- and upper-income women choosing to follow a specific profession and/or simply work for pay by choice rath...

Transcending Space and Time in The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

This paper consists of eleven pages and considers how in the novel the subversion of women to the stereotype of unintelligence and...

Sensuality and the Senses in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In four pages this paper discusses the protagonist's life struggles and the social limitations that oppressed women during this ti...

Chapters 1 through 4 of A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

In five pages the conditions of women and how they were perceived by men during Wollstonecraft's time are considered along with th...

Comparison Between Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner Short Stories

In three pages this essay compares O'Connor's 'Good Country People' with Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' in terms of their usage of ...

Women of European Descent in the Caribbean from 1492 until 1800

In five pages this paper considers the European women of the Caribbean during this time period in terms of their roles and experie...

British Society, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and Single Women

In five pages this paper examines British society of Jane Austen's time and what her novel reveals about single women and how they...

Literary Women in Ancient Rome and in the 20th Century

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

Rosie the Riveter and Second World War Working Women

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fashions for Women

up slightly in the back in order to show a little bit of ankle or even the calf of her leg when flirting with a gentleman. Swim...

Madam President and the Ferraro Campaign

about it. With Gina Davis looking presidential, people are beginning to feel more comfortable with a woman at the helm. The book ...

Encouraging Continuation of Breast Feeding

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

Canadian History and Women

difficult, if not impossible, to try to illustrate what life was like for native women in early Canada. The women of different tri...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

Marge Piercy, Toni Morrison and the Conflict of Family v. Self Actualization

The definition of family as presented in Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Morrison's Beloved are examined in 5 pages with th...

British Politics and Women's Influence

In six pages this paper considers how the growing number of women members of Parliament have influenced British politics with the ...

Social Struggles and Women in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron

Jewetts Sylvia is not far removed from the oppressive social structure Louisa is forced to endure. For Sylvia, the white heron ex...

Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...

1600s to 1900s Women in America

This paper examines this time period in terms of women with such topics as sexuality, domesticity, religion, crime, and substance ...