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responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

ailing partner; they cant file joint tax returns; there are no survivors benefits for the one left behind (Quindlen, 1992). Quind...

love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...

old marriage and children are an important part of these newly created families. With so many complications, one has to ask why pe...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

Bush Oppose Gay Marriage 14). The statement went on to pronounce heterosexual marriage as "holy, while homosexual acts go against...

latter instances until the former had been decided. The facts were seen and read with the couple moving around Europe and giving b...

said that because someone can invent it, that it does not necessarily mean that it should be invented. From all accounts the Aztec...

at research that indicates data pertaining to the manner in which cohabitation affects subsequent marriage rates. As the student r...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

and Don Giovanni. In 1786 with his opera The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reached the peak of his success durin...

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

him to be when she first met him at the ball: a rude egocentric boor. And yet, one of the Bingley sisters illuminates what society...