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Women's Careers and Social Roles

and while these are only fictional characters, they do indeed reflect the changes in society in terms of womens roles and work. Th...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Islamic Women

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

Girls, Women, and the Impact of the Media

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

Tutorial on a Vietnamese Woman's Life

In five pages this essay tutorial considers how to reconstruct a young Vietnamese woman's life from her birth in 1956 to the prese...

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...

Sexuality and Women in Hebrew and Greek Cultures

This paper discusses women's sexuality in these cultures in a comparative analysis of Robert Francoeur's The Religious Suppression...

Family and The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

own time. It was that goal of establishing principles that formed his viewpoint regarding the character of a person and how a pers...

Uses of Symbolism in 'Livvie,' 'A Worn Path, and 'Young Goodman Brown'

This trio of narratives and their uses of symbolism are analyzed in 5 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Junichi Saga's Memories of Silk and Straw A Self-Portrait of Small Town Japan

as men. It seems, especially after reading the stories in Memories of Silk And Straw, that the class distinction and level of pov...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Women and the Impact of the Media

Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...

Educational History and Women

colleges and institutes of education. "But it would take time" (Anonymous The Education of Women, 1998; women.html). In the follow...

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...

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...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Women

with trouble as he holds Desdemonas handkerchief. Bianca notes it and states: "O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from...

Great Britain and Patriarchal Societies

reflected in the laws of inheritance. Consequently, in order that the children could inherit the family wealth which was the prope...

Sophocles vs. Jean Anouilh's Character Interpretations of Antigone

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

Puritanism and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

also the Salem of his ancestors" (Hawthorne.htm). When we understand something of the history of Salem, as well as the history of ...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Chinese Communism and Women

In a paper consisting of eight pages the ways in which Chinese Communism had little inclination of incorporating women's rights in...

20th Century Women's Suffrage Movement

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

Procedure of Breast Augmentation

In six pages the procedure of breast augmentation is examined in terms of how it reflects a woman's personal well being as well as...

Domestic Violence Research Proposal

In eight pages this paper presents a research proposal regarding domestic abuse and women in an investigation of whether or not it...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...