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Social Isolation and Women in Anne Tyler's Novels

it seemed to be the only way open to me" (Celestial 63). Mary wishes to avoid the "single narrow path" outlined by her parents liv...

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

Women Fighting Domestic Violence

by her stepfather (Talvi, 2005). As is perhaps often the case with young women who are victims of domestic violence, Valerie took ...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Urban Life and Women

than the experience a modern urban man of her age may come upon. A modern urban man may experience a time in his life where he fee...

Gender and Sport in American Society

The ideological and political representation of sports are on some level the same for both men and women in that sports are part o...

What Causes Birth Defects

A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects/congenital abnormalities. It could also related to the pregnant woman bein...

Going to the Movies: Then and Now

In the 1950s, the film industry had begun to recognize the importance of marketing strategies and methods to bring viewers into...

Glass Ceiling

during the day to discuss in private her opinions on market performance and financial projections" (The "Glass Ceiling"; 319). But...

Women and the Advent of Unions

of problems, but highlighted were the working conditions which had since been changed through unionism and the passage of labor la...

Multiple Viewpoints in "The Woman Warrior"

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

Opportunities for Women of Color in the American West

school systems and particularly in the realm of higher education at a time when only those with financial means were able to atten...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Differences between the Genders, Prison Experience

This research paper addresses the differences in the ways that men and women experience prison, as well as the legislation impleme...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

Article Analysis: Power as a Theme in Women's History

lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

Psychological Research Issues

In six pages this paper discusses various psychological research issues including an assessment of American Psychiatric Associatio...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Influence on Feminism

This paper examines the works and life of Wollstonecraft in terms of her impact on women's suffrage and the women's rights movemen...

1776 to 1865 The Role of America Women

and as such the incidence of male dominance were more prevalent. It is ironic in the land which had just claimed freedom the soci...

The Hispanic Population and AIDS

In eighteen pages the effects of AIDS on Hispanics are glimpsed from a psychological perspective and includes such pertinent issue...

Women's Rights and a Speech by Sojourner Truth

offered chivalrous acts, such as with going through doors and stepping over mud puddles; however, she also acknowledges that she, ...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

Life and Contributions of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In 5 pages this paper discusses this powerful and important woman's contributions to justice and her championing of women's advoc...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

The Transformation of the Role of Women in Mexico

4 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the changing role of women in Mexico during colonialism. This paper pr...

U.S. Women's Rights History

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's rights in a historical consideration that includes Anthony, Stanton, the...

China and Rights of Women

In five pages this paper examines this historical problem as addressed by the Bejing UN conference on women's rights in 1995 with ...

"The Last Emperor" - Psychological Elements

"develop a healthy sense of omnipotence which will naturally be frustrated as the child matures" (D. W. Winnicott). Because Pu Yi...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...