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The Role of Married Women in Japan

entire society will suffer. Why limit the contributions of half the population because of the tradition of male dominance? Becau...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Women of Ancient Greece and Rome

And, in terms of using their sexuality, "They do not share their couches with their husbands but with the other men who happen to ...

Militarization and How it Affects Women's Lives

minimum wages, and other stipends that directly affect women need to be considered. It is true that in some cases when the milita...

The Role of Women in Islamic Society

no means represent the lives of most Muslim women (2002). What are the lives of most like? How are women viewed in Muslim society?...

Working Women on Barbados

means suits and high heels, yet their work is paid roughly the same as factory workers. This means that, in order to maintain the ...

A Discussion of Caretakers of Our Common House by Carol Lakey Hess

values within mixed religious communities and they grow from this socialization, women too need an environment where they can asse...

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

Artistic Portrayal of Women

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Older Women and Fertility

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

An Examination of Arab Women

and even covers conditions now, explaining why women are often put in the position they are. This is a subject that confuses many ...

Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

Phenomenal Women in Literature

Such is the case, in my experiences in reading the authors noted above. No one can contest the fact that these women have indeed ...

Germany and Women's Changing Status

the social consideration at the time. The role of the woman was firmly stereotyped, with an expectation that women should stay at ...

How Eighteenth Century London Society Was Shaped by the Role of Women in 'The Rambler,' 'Evelina' and 'Moll Flanders'

freedom: poverty-stricken women of the eighteenth century England. The product of indigence, Moll learns to manipulate the system...

Historical High-Points in Nursing History

also see that she considered the business of nursing to be about reform. In order to achieve the principles that she espoused fo...

History and Issues Pertaining to Women and Children

or sold, as any possession might be. If a woman and her children are homeless, the situation is little changed. When homelessness...

Problems of Pregnant Women Who Smoke and Solutions

(About Pregnancy and Smoking, 2002). There include, both mother and baby will be healthier, the baby is more likely to be born he...

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Taiwan and Women's Changing Role

in the equation that supported the ideal that women are inferior. Based on a conviction of inferiority, male authorities were the...

Overview of the Women Against Pornography Organization

international nongovernmental organization with consultative status to the United Nations. She has represented hundreds of victims...

How Women Have Been Depicted in Advertising Copy

in the Past In first looking at the past in relationship to advertisements we note that one of the primary goals of advertisemen...