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Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how black women's experiences are captured in Naylor's book Women of Brewster Plac...

Feminist Symbolism in the Play Trifles by Susan Glaspell

that women need to learn to take themselves seriously, and women, through a new viewpoint they need to come together in order to c...

Feminist ideology in The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman

A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...

Early American Women

the revolutionary era helped shape a new consciousness of women s political worth and capacities; this made their official exclusi...

Women's Rights and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

clause. In fact, the court gave V.M.I. and the commonwealth of Virginia (a co-defendant in the case) three options which would sat...

Presence of the Dead Father in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

Shrewd and Hostile Women in 'Five Easy Pieces' and 'Rip Van Winkle'

counterparts instead. By transposing these characteristics from male to female, the male character is given the opportunity to el...

Women and Augustinian Laws

Women in a repressive, male chauvinistic society -- such as in the time of Augustinian law -- must do what they have to in order...

Abused Females Who Kill

In twenty pages the act of abused women killing their abusers are discussed within a socioeconomic context and a notable correlati...

Latin American Women's Cries for Justice

In five pages this research paper examines the historical oppression of Latin American females and how women such as Nobel Prize w...

Harriet Wilson, Henrik Ibsen, Female Oppression and Self Integration

In five pages this paper discusses the problems of self integration between black and white women in a consideration of the oppres...

Anger in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid

In nine pages this research essay discussed how Kincaid employs language to express her anger over the imprisonment of 'foreign' l...

Oppression of Women in Shirley Jackson's 'The Tooth' and 'The Lottery'

In five pages this paper discusses how women are subjected to oppression by men in these 2 short stories by Shirley Jackson. Seve...

Women's Alcohol Consumption in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper examines the extent of alcohol use among women in the 19th century. The writer pays special attention to the tem...

Leisure Lifestyles of Women and Cassandra by Florence Nightingale

In five pages this paper discusses women's rights and giving meaning to life as conceptualized by Florence Nightingale, the founde...

Art and the Images of Women

themes and strategies I do wonder if women, who are artists, or artists who are women, consciously have themes of resistance. Fr...

Impoverished Women and Oppressive Social Systems

living above the poverty line, but after the rent is paid, there is little left over. In the examples provided, each of the women...

Carol Gilligan/Female Moral Development

and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...

Interview with an Older Woman

experience as a woman in the workforce, her thoughts about the struggle for civil rights, and technology as perhaps the most appro...

Designing an Interview

a woman in the workforce, her thoughts about the struggle for civil rights, and technology as perhaps the most appropriate. This i...

Islamic Women

women can have no authority over men" (Kamguian). Or, according to another author, Islamic women who give birth to a child out of ...

Great Britain's Concept of Empire

citizens by every means available. Most colonization takes place because the invading nation states that they do so in the foreign...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Feminist Literature and Issues

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

Taliban Control of Muslim Women

to control the female gender, but also to block entrance for women in many areas so that they remain chained to the patriarchal in...

'When We Dead Awaken Writing As Re-Vision' by Adrienne Rich

the female gender could be perceived within the myriad components of existence, the early feminist movement served to establish a ...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Black American Women and Interlocking Oppression

words, when it comes to oppression, people are not necessarily held back due only to their gender, or their color, but a combinati...