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This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...
of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...
Europeans were studying at Muslim universities, located mostly in Spain, by the 13th century (The Islamic world to 1600). Even aft...
women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...
dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...
In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...
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...
This paper reviews the history of women's rights. Women fought diligently for the right to vote to the right to control their own...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at advertising and its impact on women's self-esteem. The view that advertisers target...
these clubs provide "alternative sista [sister] spaces," which become significant locations for "literacy learning and literacy ac...
The writer considers the argument that developing countries are losing a potentially valuable resource by holding back women, prev...
and Pocock, 2010). The question that is addressed in this paper is to assess if this is having a disproportionate impact on women ...
Television has played a critical role in womens...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...
stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...
methods are more useful when the researcher seeks to determine attitudes and perceptions. Creswell (2003) speaks to the former vi...
underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...
simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...
to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...
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...
filed the vast majority of sexual harassment cases, illustrating the fact that sexism still remains a very real problem for women ...
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...
professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, eng...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
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...