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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...

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...

Roman Society and Culture in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

among those of the ancient kings, and a raised couch placed in the orchestra at the Theatre....What made the Romans hate him so bi...

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...

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...

Society, Characters, and Crick Crack Monkey and Nectar in a Sieve

In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....

Esther and Ruth Biblical Analysis

In four pages this essay contrasts and compares these biblical books and the women that are featured in them....

Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Conventionality and Freedom

This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...

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...

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,...

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...

Women and Homelessness

In twenty pages homelessness is examined with the focus being on women and the reasons that contribute to their homeless plight al...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

Ancient Society and Women's Role

In five pages this paper discusses how Apuleius portrays women's role in ancient society in The Golden Ass in comparison to the so...

Chinese Tradition and Womanhood

women played as mothers, servants, and leaders, even reflecting upon local leadership and the definition of matriarchal social seg...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...

The Fight For Asiain Equality

were, and in some countries still are, preferred over female children. Nevertheless, when they were allowed personal and inte...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

120 Years of American History

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

Women in Society and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale

Ulrichs works is primarily filled with Martha Ballards diary of her work. Her work is presented in a very unemotional and very str...

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...

U.S. Culture and Society as Determined by Women's Economic Role

of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...

Suffering of Women and the Patriarchy in The Trojan Women by Euripides

of heroism in combat as they fought for noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in th...

Social Inequality and Women

real women portraying such characters and this just encourages such perspectives. We see women in almost every single occu...

Technology as a Societal Addiction

weapons of mass destruction that are the center of world controversy today reflect that fact. These weapons do exist and they exi...

Elizabethan Society, Women's Role and Portia in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

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...