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Marriage in the 19th Century According to Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

1800 to 1820 Fashions for Women

In ten pages this research paper presents an overview of the Regency Period of the 19th century as reflected in women's fashions a...

Colonial Fashions and How They Evolved

In six pages this paper discusses the seventeenth and eighteenth century evolution of Quaker men's and women's fashions and how th...

The Paradox of Change by William H. Chafe

In five pages this historical text regarding American women's twentieth century development is analyzed. There are no other sourc...

Beauty Pageants

contributing to the betterment of the world in which she lives. For example, "Miss National Pre-Teen" was created in 1980 a...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Changing Chinese Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

In five pages this paper contrasts seventeenth century Chinese women with their female counterparts and the changes that have take...

Multiculturalism, Prejudice, and the Writings of Bernhard Schlink, Bessie Head, Patricia Grace, and Manuel Puig

In 5 pages this paper examines the prejudice featured in the multicultural literary works such as Grace's 'Potiki,' Head's 'Maru,'...

Feminism in The Bible

family book with which to base the family on. The bible, divided into books that theoretically answer every question one could eve...

Portrayal of Chinese and German Women During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

In five pages the ways in which Chinese and German women were portrayed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are contras...

Nicholas Rowe's Eighteenth Century Play The Tragedy of Jane Shore

In 5 pages an analysis of this 1714 play on Edward IV's mistress is presented. There are no other sources listed....

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Past and Present Women in Policing

In eight pages this paper examines law enforcement and careers for women from an historical perspective with prejudice and equalit...

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force by Mary Beth Mills

In five pages this paper summarizes and analyzes M.B. Mills' text on rural Bangkok women that examines similarities between them a...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Male Culture and Gender Prejudice

editors of major print media, presidents of television networks and so on are men. Furthermore, the media propagates the stereotyp...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

Early History of Women's Subjugation

In three pages this paper presents a brief overview of women's subjugation from the ancient period until the 17th century. One so...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Women

In 5 pages this paper examines Medieval storyteller prejudices about women as reflected in their portrayal in these stories. Ther...

Ar'n't I a Woman? and White and Enslaved Women

womanhood was physically weak and dependent on a man for support. African women, however, were judged to be strong enough to earn ...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Eighteenth Century British Literature and Women

Evelina Evelina was Burneys first and most successful novel (Description of Evelina, 2002). It is a story in which Burney...

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Texts on Women's Issues

Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

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...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

Canada's Legal System and How the Female Legal Personality Has Evolved

their exclusion from society, because since they were not accorded legal personalities, this meant "women were not included in the...

1978's Pregnancy Discrimination Act

the duties as anyone else; to turn a woman down based upon her current maternity condition is to go against the very grain of the ...