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Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

Militarization and How it Affects Women's Lives

minimum wages, and other stipends that directly affect women need to be considered. It is true that in some cases when the milita...

Fatima Mernissi's Beyond the Veil Reviewed

In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....

Women in Heart of Darkness

A 5 page analysis of Joseph Conrad's views on women and civilization. 1 source....

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Graphic Design, Typography, and the Impact of CAD Design

monasteries at first and then moving into the market later in the 12th century. Because of the long and laborious process of this,...

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

Design's Nature and Actual Purpose

well-known examples. Taken even a step further, one need only look at his or her desk and see the shape of the Fiskars scissors, t...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Fairytales and Use of Sexist Language

women were regarded as objects of beauty, which is exactly what Snow White is. Such demeaning writing would not be acceptable tod...

Sula by Toni Morrison and the Shadrack Character

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shadrack is affected by patriarchal and racial issues throughout the course ...

Patriarchy and Isben's A Doll House

This paper examines the reasons behind Nora Helmer's actions and how they revolve around the constrictions of the patriarchal soci...

McMurphy's Rebellion

This essay is on "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. The writer discusses McMurphy's rebellion, which is targeted aga...

The 12 Caesars by Suetonius

In three pages this paper examines elitism and patriarchal concepts as they relate to the society of ancient Rome featured in The ...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Patriarchy

In twelve pages this paper examines how patriarchal concepts are expressed by characters featured in Hard Times, a novel by Charle...

Judaism and Feminism

In six pages conservative and liberal Judaism sects are examined in a discussion that considers the impact of the feminist movemen...

United States, India, and Patriarchal Bargaining

In ten pages this paper discusses patriarchal business bargaining of India and its implications for U.S. companies that have expan...

Feminist Heroines Antigone in Sophocles' Play of the Same Name and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

How Anorexia in Featured in Texts by Cathi Hanauer and Margaret Atwood

In five pages anorexia as reflected in My Sister's Bones by Hanauer and The Edible Woman by Atwood are compared and contrasted in ...

Patriarchal and Feminist Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

To say that women had to fight for their existence throughout history would be a gross understatement and one that would also be s...

The Artwork of Artemisia Gentileschi

Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi, reportedly a victim of rape, Judith served to symbolize female vengeance against male po...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Feminist Critique/Disney Films

also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...

Sex as Power in Relationships in 'The Wife of Bath' and 'Lysistrata'

condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body. Three of my husbands were good an...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...

Patriarchal Culture, Gender, and the Works of Tayeb Salih and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

of Angela addresses the rituals that surround marriage in Latin American culture during this time. Bayardo brings Angela presents,...

Feminism in the Work of Sylvia Plath

Slyvia Plath is regarded as one of the earliest feminist. Interestingly, feminism as a social movement was only...

Shakespeare and Homer - Examining Patriarchal Content

and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...