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19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

Ancient World and Rights for Women

This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...

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...

Religion in Early America

In five pages the original 13 American colonies are examined in terms of their diverse religious practices with the effects on wom...

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...

Culture, Sexism, and Racism Issues as They Relate to Women's Health

of women in the medical field, attitudes appear to be altering. Practices are slower to change, however, womens health advocates ...

Iran's Development and the Effects of Women's Rights Issues

In five pages this paper examines Iran's economic development and the impact of women's rights. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Overview of the Text When I Was Puerto Rican

In six pages this paper discusses the US and its Puerto Rican culture in a text overview that includes cultural variations, the La...

Three Decades of American Freshmen

In nineteen pages this paper examines the changing American freshman class in a literature overview that includes demographics, hi...

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...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Second World War and Women's Status

In three pages this research paper discusses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath upon women's status in the workp...

Fourteenth to Eighteenth Century Families of Europe and the Roles of Women

Women's roles in European families from 1300 to 1700 are examined in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

In five pages this paper considers the controversy over women's rights that continues in an examination of this 1792 book by Mary ...

Women and the Film Portrait of Teresa

In seven pages this paper examines the movie Portrait of Teresa in an examination of women's struggles and the control exerted by ...

Analyzing 'The Joys of Motherhood' by Buchi Emecheta

find "something she was good at" (Holmes PG). Much of the young Buchi Emecheta can be found in the female protagonist, Nnu Ego, i...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Roles and Rights of Women in Works by Kate Chopin and William Faulkner

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

Carol Gilligan/Female Moral Development

and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...

Women's Athletics, Success, and Motivation

motivation and success in regards to womens sports, it is first helpful to perceive these elements within an historical and cultur...

Becoming an American and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

from the traditional customs of her village and adopt more modern, urban ideas. For example, in her village, wives addressed their...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Lifetime of Leisure

category refers to personal unexpected events, such as divorce or disability (Mannell and Kleiber, 1997). A major landmark study...

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...

A Woman's Right to Have an Abortion

she actually never had an abortion, and years later wishes her name were not on the court decision and wishes that abortion were n...

Women's Defender Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

library (Oregon State, 2006). By the time she was six years of age she had read everything in his library (Sor Juana Ines de la Cr...

Australia, Law, and Women

In a Canadian Bar Association report, minority women working in the public sector indicated that their career choices were more li...

Ireland's Feminist Movement

In seven pages this paper examines 4 decades of Irish women's second feminist wave in this consideration of the influence of vario...

Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, and Women's Roles

time expresses: "Rank creates its rules: A woman is asked about her husband, A man is asked about his rank" (Callender 12). By fa...