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Power in Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and 1984 by George Orwell

big cities, parents were sent to jail on the testimony of their children, politicians changed their records and no one noticed, ne...

Assessment of the Concerned Women for America Website

does accurately describe the organizations mission. When one hears the name, and also has the information that the women are ass...

The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Jan Vermeer

its geometrical balance with the map, and essentially we are presented with an incredibly intense visual image. But, is this parti...

Feminist Utopian Literature Represented by Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

destroyed, and that in its place, a society based on equality and not by the limitations imposed by gender. Piercys radical views...

What Women Want

womanhood itself. Our thesis statement, for this discussion, is that the definition of womanhood is a flexible one that allows fo...

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

person who engages in the sexual fantasy "vulnerable to ideological contamination at the very moment they promise liberation" (Nor...

Justice, Human Rights, and I, Rigoberta Menchu, An Indian Woman in Guatemala

In ten pages this paper considers justice and human rights concepts within the harrowing context of Roberta Menchu's testimony. T...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Depiction of Women in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides

This paper contrasts and compares the depiction of Phaedra by Euripides in Hippolytus and Penelope by Homer in 'The Odyssey' in fi...

Puig's 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' and Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

the notion of female spectatorship. Psycho is a good example of this, inasmuch as Norman Bates only appears to exist secondarily ...

The Brooding Woman of Paul Gaugin

In five pages this paper analyzes the famous painting by Paul Gauguin with style, gender, social implications, and the artist's re...

Women of the Nineteenth Century in Stories by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

Women of Edward Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

the two female characters who interacted in literature with Edward Rochester, one notices differences - and similarities - in thei...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman Overview and Film Review

depth, grace, and often touching humor with which the story is actually presented. Family, love, and tradition are all presented, ...

A Review of The Role of Women in Human Evolution

occurred in humans as a whole over time. These changes included an increase in brain size, changes in teeth, a transition from wa...

Global Problem of Women as Victims of Violence

These lost days, lost days that have the potential to represent some twenty percent of a womans life, leave many psychological and...

Quran and Woman by Amina Wadud

within a larger holistic framework. For instance, in considering the first verse of the surah, which is entitled "Women" and dis...

Role of Women During the Civil War

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

Tales of Devious Caribbean Women by Hispanic Authors

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

Domestic Violence When Men Are the Victims and Women Are the Abusers

from emotional abuse to severe physical abuse. Domestic violence is an all too frequent occurrence in modern society. The ...

Unconventional Women in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma by Jane Austen

pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her be...

Dietary Needs Met by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children

mothers (Montagne, 2004). This is some 7.7 million individuals (Montagne, 2004)! The goal of the WIC program, of course ...

Koran Sections 'Women' and 'Cow' and Contemporary City Governments

probably mean not going to prison, and being free). Another way this could be taken is that those who work among citizens groups w...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

Virginia Woolf's Professions for Women

nothing. She is not arrogantly assuming she is a great success, but rather sucking the listener/reader into a position where they ...

The Importance of Women Writers to the School Curriculum

with a female perspective of the American frontier experience that would offer more complete picture with vantage points from both...

Women in Sub Saharan Africa and High Rates of HIV and AIDS

on attachment to tradition and culture. Many aspects of this topic are explored and some conclusions drawn are only on the periphe...