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The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta and the Nigerian Woman's Role

Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooe...

Great Britain and Patriarchal Societies

reflected in the laws of inheritance. Consequently, in order that the children could inherit the family wealth which was the prope...

Educational History and Women

colleges and institutes of education. "But it would take time" (Anonymous The Education of Women, 1998; women.html). In the follow...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and Men and Women's Relationships

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

Three Women at the Spring by Picasso and Three Women by Leger Compared

In five pages these 1921 oil paintings are contrasted and compared using such criteria as style and composition as evaluated by th...

Canada, The Philippines, and Women's Roles

the open. The center believes that in the near future the women in the rural areas will be treated better and that the living cond...

The Love of Women Presenting A Different Kind of World

become well-known on stage in the time and place in which both of these works took place were no better than they had been a hundr...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

Lisa See's "Snow Flower And The Secret Fan" - Foot Binding And Tradition

Chinese culture recognized womens inherent value. This is not to say, however, that women - even at their most esteemed positions...

Women’s Rights/Incompatibility with Islam

of the state. They are always perceived in their relationship to men as defined by Islamic scripture. Within this social and polit...

Islam and Women’s Rights

before, however, Islam is very much an "exposed" religion. It comes to us through practically every medium as each news or public...

Women's Rights: How Small Strides were Made During the Renaissance

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

Pariarchy and the Repression of Women: Reflections in Literature

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

Women's Baseball Leagues in Historical Context

Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 for example (Roberts, 2005). The womens movement had begun and baseball was an...

Who is More Romantic: Men or Women?

the most fantastic wine" (Lerner, 2007). While she is not necessarily taking into account the fact they may be merely luring her w...

Women’s Rights in the Military

cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

Renaissance Women’s Writings

to his demands because she was "a dutiful daughter" (Life and Death in a Venetian Convent 26). AS a dutiful daughter she did as sh...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Jesus’ Attitude Toward Women & Luke

women or does it primarily reflect a later change in attitude, which originates with the early Christian communitys perspective." ...

American and Iraqi Women

in many respects. The Iraqi women, by all outward appearances and by all media theorizing, are made to wear clothing that consta...

A History of Women's Suffrage

he should remember the ladies (Adams, 2003). Of course, the term "ladies" would be discarded down the road as being derogatory. To...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

Article Review/Sex, Drug Behavior

a venipuncture for HIV and hepatitis C virus, accompanied by pretest counseling. The participants returned two weeks later to rece...