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Candide by Voltaire and Women

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

Labor Movement and Women's Involvement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

Women's Athletics, Success, and Motivation

motivation and success in regards to womens sports, it is first helpful to perceive these elements within an historical and cultur...

Patriarchal Workplace and Women

jobs that are typically occupied by all females verses those that are occupied by all males. These differences can be up to fifty...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

1960s' Pop Art Culture and Women

as the pop art movement was one that generally focused on objects, abstracts, and commercialism as it involved a consumerist and w...

Ancient Kemet and the Role of Women

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

Five Famous Canadian Women

In 1916, Emily Murphy, a social activist in Alberta, was appointed the "first woman police magistrate" in the province, only to ha...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Female Marines and Their Contributions

Headquarters housed the majority of female Marines whose task it was to fill clerical billets so the men could fill the need for F...

Africa and the Practices of Dowry and Bridewealth

in that it effectively gives the bride her share of the familys fortune. Traditional Uses Hanson (2002) explains that dowry...

Industrial Revolution and the Changes in Women's Roles

a pattern which has reemerged throughout history. Fortunes were made from the new technology which surfaced during the industrial ...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Female Characters in Coriolanus and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

Heroism and the Life Example of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

Women as Viewed by Plato

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

Analysis of 'Type A Behavior and Social Support' Article

it would seem, an actual problem or argument, but a metaphor for the way in which Type A people live their lives: always under str...

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx on Women in the Workplace

and everything changed. Of course, television did not change anything, but rather, reflected a society that would suddenly give wo...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

Violence Against Women and the Media

(Kilbourne, 2004). Many people do not like to see women exploited on television, but they reason that it is not all that bad, an...

Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel

to herself that the prince will love her more than "old Dame Gothel" (the enchantress). She asks the woman why shes so heavy: "T...

Heart Disease, Women, and Health Promotion

average age of just over seventy years of age in women, almost sixty years old in men. Coronary heart disease strikes women two t...

Sociology and “The Bachelor”

him with 25 women; during the run of the program, the man winnows out the women until one "winner" is left. There are a number of ...

Oral Sex in Advertising and the Dehumanization of Women

of Sprite protruding somewhat horizontally at the womans mouth from somewhere off screen. The bottle, of course, is the phallic r...

Women's Advancement and Continuing Inequality in Saudi Arabia and New Zealand

have made tremendous progress, others are not much changed from what they were a century ago. From the early years of the Twentie...

Jewish and Islamic Customs/Head Cover and Menstruation

a mitvah, which resembles a small swimming pool. The water of the mitvah must be very pure and from a natural source, therefore, r...

The Civil War and Minority People

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...