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Woman's Shelter Worker's Views on Marital Rape

violence and an increase in the number of reported "date" rapes has led to the need for a social and legal response to the issue o...

Status and Role of Women in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

so "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are rare glimpses into the feminine status in what was essentially a strict Greek patriarchy. Wh...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Pathology, Battered Baby

higher rates than girls (60 percent) ("Non-Accidental Injury"). Furthermore, any sort of problem with the normal course of pregnan...

Pariarchy and the Repression of Women: Reflections in Literature

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

The Transformation of the US Military

which examined the issued of all-volunteer force in 1970 had relative little to say about women in the services, as they comprise...

Colonial Latin America and Women's Social Code

Latin America). They are responsible for raising children and being charge of all domestic tasks. For the peasant lower class woma...

The Psychological Factors that Impact Women's Decision to Return Home

abusive ultimately create a cycle of abuse whereby children whose innate defense against such inhumane treatment is to become abus...

19th Century American Reforms

virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities ...

Roles of Women in the Works of Euripides and Aeschylus

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines how women's social roles are depicted in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by ...

Psychology of Mormon Women

This research paper/essay discusses the Mormon women's psychology by focusing on the issue of abortion and using this issue as an ...

Women in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and Changing Social Roles

In eight pages women and their changing social roles are considered in a comparative analysis of women in the U.S. and their Saudi...

Wrestling and its Negative Societal Impacts

"Wrestling With Manhood-Boys, Bullying & Battering" is an expose on the harsh realities encompassed in professional wrestling and ...

Social Issues in Brazil

wealthy elite and a massively poor population; women are making strides but injustice and problems based on gender are rampant; an...

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 ...

Three Novels on Women as Victims of Violence

In five pages this research paper analyzes how women were victimized by social oppression and violence in Edwidge Danticat's Breat...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

up in the feminist movement. The authors insightful notions of patriarchal elitism, which are particularly apparent in chapter 3 ...

Nineteenth Century Woman as Defined by Jane Austen

This paper consists of four pages and examines the social, domestic, perceived, and realistic definitions of women's roles as repr...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

Society of Somalia, Women's Status, and the Values of Islam

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how in Somalia the values of Islam are directly related to women's social status. ...

Women's Alcohol Consumption in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper examines the extent of alcohol use among women in the 19th century. The writer pays special attention to the tem...

Lisa See's "Snow Flower And The Secret Fan" - Foot Binding And Tradition

Chinese culture recognized womens inherent value. This is not to say, however, that women - even at their most esteemed positions...

Analysis of Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Story of an Hour'

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

Nineteenth Century Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, she wrote, "A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern langua...

Neurosis in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...

Literature of China and Women

In five pages this paper analyzes the Tang and Song dynasties' literature in terms of women's roles and also considers the post 75...

Rural China and the Problems Confronting Women There

In three pages this paper discusses problems and possible solutions to the problems currently being confronted by women living in ...

Education and Indian Women

In ten pages this research paper examines the lack of education that is still a problem for women of India and how it continues to...