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Necessity for Women's Rights Worldwide

Beijing Conference. "Womens rights are human rights, and human rights are womens rights," said First Lady Hilary Clinton (Christo...

Women's Peace Movement in Israel and Ireland

tortured in a sexual manner before being killed outright or dying from the savagery inflicted upon them (Anonymous, 1996; Murray, ...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Women's Basketball

In twelve pages this paper examines injuries women can suffer while playing basketball with the impact of gender upon the incidenc...

Women's Backs and the Effects of High Heels

Foot and Ankle Society taken of 1,300 women, half of all working women who wore high heels complained that their feet hurt, and 28...

Religion and Women's Images

either they werent invited or were present and were later written out of the scriptures. This resulted in the Pali canon being der...

Nabokov's Lolita, Women's Role, and Pedophilia

In ten pages this paper discusses this infamous novel in terms of how the social roles of women and pedophilia issues are intertwi...

A Woman's Novel 'Awakening' in the Struggle for Identity

In three pages Maryse Conde's 'Heremakhonon - a Novel' and Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea' are discussed. There are no other sourc...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Women's Role

IN three pages this paper discusses how Homer depicted women in the epic 'The Odyssey' with Penelope being the primary focus of an...

Women's Oppression in the Old Testament and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

Women's Roles in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Tartuffe by Moliere

In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...

Women's Role in Candide by Voltaire and Tartuffe by Moliere

anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...

Virginia Woolf's Writings and the Agenda of Women's Rights

. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...

Mexican Women's Health and the Impact of Oppression

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the Mexican patriarchy oppression of women impacts their health in a considerati...

Women's Roles in Works by William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...

Southern Women's Treatment in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Women's Fortitude and Morale

In seven pages this paper examines how the female protagonists in these respective literary works maintain their morale and intern...

Issues of Women's Rights and Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In five pages this text is analyzed in terms of how it represents the late nineteenth century issues involving impoverished women ...

Women's Roles In Hansberry's Raisin In The Sun

This paper examines Hansberry's award-winning play and focuses on the importance of various roles played by female characters. Th...

Canadian Women's Clothing Manufacturer Mr. Jax and Growth Determination

In nine pages Mr. Jax is assessed in terms of a SWOT analysis and considers possible expansion into the United States based upon N...

Women's Conventional and Unconventional Roles in My Antonia by Willa Cather

by what lies beyond the obvious, not entirely confident that she is capable of dealing with the gender role she has been given....

Women's Liberation Cause and the Contributions of Aishah Abd al Rahman

In six pages this paper examines the life and contributions of this influential 20th century Islamic teacher and writer who inspir...

Contemporary Woman's Return Home in 'The Prodigal Daughter'

In one page this original feminist counterpart to 'The Prodigal Son' is presented. There are no sources cited....

1850 to 1980 British Women's Employment and Education

women; and, more middle- and upper-income women choosing to follow a specific profession and/or simply work for pay by choice rath...

Latin American Women's Cries for Justice

In five pages this research paper examines the historical oppression of Latin American females and how women such as Nobel Prize w...

Women's Oppression in America According to Brubaker and Betsworth

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares Brubaker and Betworth's perspective on American society's female oppression. Thr...

Women's Perceived Inferiority is Not Biological But Social

This essay consists of six pages in which the argument that the perceived inferiority of women is based in society and not biology...

Workplace and Women's Concepts

This paper considers such concepts as sexual harassment, equality, 'mommy track,' and 'glass ceilings' as they pertain to women in...

The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

In five pages this paper discusses the separate living of the sexes in this utopian science fiction text. There are no other sour...

Labor Protests and Women's Contributions

In five pages this paper examines the 1820s' and 1830s' New England labor protests in Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, New Hampshi...

Civil Rights Movement and African American Women's Role

The civil rights movement is examined in an analysis of the roles black women played in this paper consisting of five pages. Seve...