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Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Gender

In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...

Rites of Male Passage in the Americas

In five pages this paper discusses how masculinity is conceptualized by the Americas in terms of gender interaction and in contras...

Ancient Greece and Changing Attitudes Regarding Virtue

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

Contemporary Workplace and the Importance of Equity and Gender Issues

have broken through the gender barriers from a century ago is indicative of the still stringent attitude society takes in relation...

Self Reliance and Gender Considerations

In five pages this paper assesses whether or not self reliance can be regarded as a characteristic that is gender linked. Three s...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

Shakespeare's Era and Clothing

clearly had the funds and the power to hire others to make their clothing especially for them, and clearly maintained a position w...

Overview of Transgenderism

and places the individual within the process of decision making rather than as an either/or to conformity is needed in a world whe...

Crested Kimono Questions

In five pages this paper compares the image of Mother in Navajo and Japanese families as represented in Kinship and Gender and in ...

Classical Greek Polis and Women

In five pages this paper discusses the Greek polis, gender ideals, and changes that led to the Hellenistic era as described by a b...

Puritan And Victorian America and Gender

Puritan America is examined as well as the Victorian era. Gender is discussed in this context and the eras are compared and cont...

Managerial Responsibilities and Types of Thought

various forms of thought being discussed herein, it does illustrate that there is a very urgent need for open-mindedness in terms ...

Feminist Literature's Portrayal of Prejudice and Oppression

observance of her passage past his house. Anne knows that she does not look like she fits in, and black person in a white suburb o...

Sally Potter's Feminist Films

In five pages this paper discusses Sally Potter's films Orlando and Thriller in a consideration of feminist representation and gen...

New Zealand's Women Prime Ministers Jennifer Shipley and Helen Clark

In ten pages former and current New Zealand prime ministers Helen Clark and Jennifer Shipley are examined in this consideration of...

Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

In five pages this paper examines the one gender theory argument of author Thomas Laqueur in Making Sex and also critiques the tex...

Early Feminist Elisabeth Sophie Cheron

In seven pages this paper examines Cheron's feminism and how she successfully overcame formidable gender prejudice. Three sources...

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

a society that is unlike anything most people have ever experienced. It is true that society has been struggling to overcome cent...

Social Construct and Gay Marriage

the world. Whether an individual believes in free agency the right to personal decisions (privacy) or a system of behavior and co...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

Fair IQ Testing?

comprehension of subject matter, or even in the interpretation of the meaning of a simple sentence. Some of these variables may in...

Tobacco Use and Gender

morning cough, were somehow genteel and ladylike. Philip Morris Cos. Inc. decided that its brand needed to have a classy, sophisti...

Education Attainment and Gender

2002). The way in which the curriculum is delivered under the current system focuses heavily...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

Anatomy and Psychology

psychology and sociology so far as they affect the well-being of the individual" (512). At this point he delves into what he terms...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Gender, Social Construct, and Metaphysics in the Writings of Virginia Woolf

be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...