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Essays 1861 - 1890

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Women's Role

IN three pages this paper discusses how Homer depicted women in the epic 'The Odyssey' with Penelope being the primary focus of an...

Women's Oppression in the Old Testament and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

Nabokov's Lolita, Women's Role, and Pedophilia

In ten pages this paper discusses this infamous novel in terms of how the social roles of women and pedophilia issues are intertwi...

A Woman's Novel 'Awakening' in the Struggle for Identity

In three pages Maryse Conde's 'Heremakhonon - a Novel' and Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea' are discussed. There are no other sourc...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Women's Basketball

In twelve pages this paper examines injuries women can suffer while playing basketball with the impact of gender upon the incidenc...

Women's Backs and the Effects of High Heels

Foot and Ankle Society taken of 1,300 women, half of all working women who wore high heels complained that their feet hurt, and 28...

Necessity for Women's Rights Worldwide

Beijing Conference. "Womens rights are human rights, and human rights are womens rights," said First Lady Hilary Clinton (Christo...

Women's Rights Crusader Susan B. Anthony

In eight pages this research paper examines the life of Susan B. Anthony and also details her activism on behalf of achieving righ...

17th Century Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

was by no means typical of Chinese marital experience, the repressive conditions which made it possible were the cultural portion ...

Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright on Women's Subjugation

In ten pages this report takes the form of a letter that examines the global subjugation of women and the role played by the Unite...

Woman's Rights and Abortion

million are without water" (Jackson 20). All of these people are starving. In West Africa, the poverty is so severe that violenc...

Abortion as a Woman's Right Regardless of Circumstances Involved

In this paper consisting of five pages the abortion argument is framed around the book 'Causing Death and Saving Lives' by Jonatha...

Women's Health

the system," says Dr. Penny Ballem, vice-president of womens health programs at the British Columbia Womens Hospital in Vancouver....

Women's Peace Movement in Israel and Ireland

tortured in a sexual manner before being killed outright or dying from the savagery inflicted upon them (Anonymous, 1996; Murray, ...

Women's Roles in Works by William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...

Southern Women's Treatment in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

Mexican Women's Health and the Impact of Oppression

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the Mexican patriarchy oppression of women impacts their health in a considerati...

Women's Roles in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Tartuffe by Moliere

In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...

Virginia Woolf's Writings and the Agenda of Women's Rights

. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...

Women's Role in Candide by Voltaire and Tartuffe by Moliere

anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...

Women's Roles In Hansberry's Raisin In The Sun

This paper examines Hansberry's award-winning play and focuses on the importance of various roles played by female characters. Th...

Issues of Women's Rights and Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In five pages this text is analyzed in terms of how it represents the late nineteenth century issues involving impoverished women ...

Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Women's Fortitude and Morale

In seven pages this paper examines how the female protagonists in these respective literary works maintain their morale and intern...

Women's Commodification in Ulysses by James Joyce

In ten pages this paper examines Chapter Thirteen in a consideration of the commodification of women as represented by the Gerty M...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Cultural Reorganization from a Woman's Perspective

reader is able to reconsider a number of suppositions as related to the era and the characters that inhabit it. Details, Details, ...

France and the Women's Suffrage Movement

In fourteen pages this paper examines how it was not until 1944 that France granted women voting rights. Ten sources are cited in...

Women's Sense and The Underworld by Muriel Ruykheyser

made quite clear to the reader is that once parading as a queen in her own existence, this was no longer to make any difference wi...

Sexual Harassment and Women's Responsibility

boss tells and underling that he will ignore a bad job performance in exchange for sex, that situation is one of sexual harassment...

Battered Women's Syndrome from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

This literature review consists of twenty five pages and explores abuse from psychological, economic, physical, and historical per...

Feminist Movement and Women's Quest for Equal Rights

In this paper consisting of 7 pages this paper provides a feminist movement history and how it began long before the 1970s. There...