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Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Provisions of the 1998 Welfare Revision Act

In eight pages this Act is examined in terms of how it addresses rural women's needs and temporary aid to needy families. Six sou...

Female Protagonists in God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousbane

In five pages this novel is examined in an overview that focuses upon the women's roles in the Senegal railway workers strike as w...

My Fight for Birth Control by Margaret Sanger

In five pages this essay by Margaret Sanger is evaluated in terms of its significance regarding women's issues. Two other sources...

PLO and Women's Role

In ten pages this paper examines the PLO in an overview of women's roles and also considers feminism. Seven sources are cited in ...

Kate Chopin Tackling Taboo and Controversial Subjects in 'The Story of an Hour, 'A Respectable Woman,' and 'Desiree's Baby'

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

Contemporary Women and Women in the Plays of William Shakespeare

In three pages this paper discusses contemporary women in comparison to how women were presented in the plays of William Shakespea...

Book Review of Joan D. Chittister's Heart of Flesh

In ten pages this paper reviews this text in its consideration of women's ostracism from Western theology and public policy with s...

Former Yugoslavia and Globalisation's Political Influence

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how globalisation has influenced the former Yugoslavia with changing women's roles the prima...

Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice …'

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women's moral development when contrasted with the masculine justice ethic as hypothe...

Women's Issues and Racism

In 6 pages this paper considers the Reconstruction era until the 1930s in a discussion of how changes affected women's issues and ...

The Bible and Women's Roles

In fifteen pages this paper examines women's roles in the Bible. Thirteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

Victorian Age Hypocrisy and Advice

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Women's Subservience in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, and William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...

Gone with the Wind, Patriarchy, and Gender Roles of the Antebellum South

also of the survivors of the overall destruction of this exclusive caste system. Shortly after the initial publication of Gon...

Post 1970's Roles of Women

Resnick Sandler, while examining a presidential footnote on a Civil Rights amendment from 1968, discovered that President Johnson ...

Customs and Culture Associated with the Creek Indians

In twelve pages this paper discusses the detrimental cultural impact on the Creek Indians following European contact in a consider...

Recovery from Addiction and Inner Child Therapy

In seven pages this paper examines a woman's recovery from anorexia and alcoholism and also considers inner child concepts. Five ...

French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and Women's Condition Changes

The same situation followed women for much of the next two centuries. It persists today in even the most developed nations; still...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Role of Women in Three Norse Sagas

This paper discusses the role of women in three Norse sagas. The writer argues that "Njal's Saga" and "Laxdaela's S...

Ancient Mythology of Greece and Rome and How Women Were Treated

While women in Greek and Roman mythology were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most beings ...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Women's Role

Christian religion is being discussed. In Catholicism and the Lutheran faiths, women are not allowed to be priests or reverends. I...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

up in the feminist movement. The authors insightful notions of patriarchal elitism, which are particularly apparent in chapter 3 ...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

From Arousal to Orgasm in Human Sexuality

In five pages this paper examines what a man and woman's physiological and biological processes are as they become sexually arouse...

Nineteenth Century Woman as Defined by Jane Austen

This paper consists of four pages and examines the social, domestic, perceived, and realistic definitions of women's roles as repr...

Shelters for Battered Women

Shelters for women who have been abused is the focus of this paper as is domestic violence in a general sense. How battered women ...

Language Differences between Men and Women

The writer argues that society assigns certain acceptable roles to men and women, and that much societal behavior is learned. The ...