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Middle Ages and Prostitution

In ten pages this paper examines the Middle Ages in terms of how prostitution evolved with the reasons women entered this professi...

Females as Morality Agents

In six pages this paper discusses the morality of women and how females have throughout the history of patriarchal society served ...

First American Woman Elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming

did. In order to prove his point he actually brought Fleming into the lab, and later hired her in a clerical capacity. In 1881, m...

Women as Perceived by Niccolo Machiavelli

In ten pages this paper examines how Machiavelli perceived women and how they are perceived by past and present society. Nine sou...

British Society, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and Single Women

In five pages this paper examines British society of Jane Austen's time and what her novel reveals about single women and how they...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Patriarchal Society and Violence Directed Towards Women

is an unacceptably high level of violence against women due the social structure though a patriarchal system, in the legislature a...

The Caribbean Influence of African Women

In five pages the influence of African women in the Caribbean in terms of economics, politics, and society are discussed. There a...

Hannah Foster's The Coquette

Eliza was unable to decide between her two suitors, the attractive but...

Patriarchy Shackled Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

Women's Roles As Seen by Woolf and Conrad

size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

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...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Society's Standards of Beauty in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

Equality and Pakistani Women

The women of Pakistan and the injustices they have historically faced in society are discussed in an overview consisting of seven ...

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...

Viewing Steingerd's Kormac's Saga from the Life and Death of Cormac the Skald

In this paper consistingn of five pages the nature of societies and the roles of women are presented in a consideration of values,...

Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

Japanese Workplace and Women

books to protect and career opportunities exist. Still, many women find themselves in the bedroom rather than in the boardroom. Th...

Men's and Women's Earning Power in America

that these girls and women were paid were considered high at that time. As long as labor was scarce, workers were too valuable to...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

Life and Politics of Phyllis Schlafly

role model for women. While feminists spout rhetoric to the effect that a woman must do such and such and should not do such and s...

Ageism In America

Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century (Rupp et al, 2006); indeed, the iss...