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Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

Eighteenth Century Prostitution and Eroticism in Fanny Hill by John Cleland

In twelve pages this report examines how Cleland presents prostitution and eroticism in his scandalous eighteenth century novel Me...

Fantasy Woman in Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In eight pages the 'fantasy' women depicted in Marlowe's 16th century play are discussed in terms of their pornographic characteri...

Female Independence and Seventeenth Century Restoration Comedies

up every day / Some new unheard-of fool for us to play" (Internet source). The prologue alone suggests that Etherege was offering ...

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...

US Economy and the Role of Women

there simply werent enough men to keep the economy progressing at the rate necessary to keep supply consistent with demand. Becau...

Ninteenth Century Women in Anton Chekhov's 'The Lady With the Dog' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

Reviewing Advertising Since 1950 in the United States

In five pages this paper discusses advertising in America and how it reflects and represents women, the family, society, and the t...

Roxana and Bold Strokb by a Wife in Reference to Capitalism and Women

her protestations of reform, Roxana does not regret in the slightest the amount of income which she has garnered over the years as...

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...

Twentieth Century Fashion and Economics

In seven pages twentieth century fashion is examined in a consideration of nylon's invention, how the Second World War liberated w...

Roles of Women and How They Have Evolved

In five pages 20th century women are examined in a consideration of how they have evolved and moved from the domestic sphere into ...

Twenty First Century Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

Cortez' Lover Dona Marina

In five pages the woman who was both interpreter and lover of Cortez is examined in terms of her varying interpretations that incl...

Sphereland and Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

In five pages Abbott's 19th century work is analyzed in terms of its presentation of women as inferior that was meant to serve at ...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

Three Daughters of China by June Chang

became very disenchanted with what she saw. His policies stifled an entire nation, and Changs family was no different. Chang wit...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

Men's and Women's Earning Power in America

that these girls and women were paid were considered high at that time. As long as labor was scarce, workers were too valuable to...

Discrimination in America Between 1900 and 1945

life of their own, relegated to minding the household chores, raising the children and looking after a husband who never recognize...

Role of Women and Male and Female Relationships in Poetry of Yeats, Hardy, Arnold, and Tennyson

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

Interviewee 59 of Harvard's Refugee Project

if she agrees with other things. She is not completely against the model. At the same time, there are rather distressing stories c...

Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Women's Opportunities

time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...

The Body Project by J.J. Brumberg

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

Women's Rights and Latin America

fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had...

The Qualities of a Citizen by Gardner

country of origin in respect to whether or not they might be breaking the law. Likely, women who might go to bars or have "loose" ...

Women's Struggle in the Workplace

were once again going to work for their country (not for themselves). It was during this war that women started working in the arm...

Women in Yellow Wallpaper and The Changeling

lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...

Gender, 19th Century Medicine and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...

Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...