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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich and English

that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry anywhere near the same weight as those b...

Book Review of Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835

Perdue (1999) examines the role of gender in Cherokee life during one of the most turbulent times of their history. During the...

Prisons and Women

placed in prison primarily for economic crimes (Anonymous, 2002). These crimes can include check forgery and illegal credit card u...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

Virgil's Aeneid and the Cost of the Roman State

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

Patriarchy Portrayal of 'Lacking' Women

culture reflects significant patriarchal control, with the manipulation of the female gender a pertinent component of its objectiv...

Women as Victims of Violent Acts

against women in curricular content; and working toward changing attitudes towards women that condone, or may encourage, acts of v...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Feminine Fashion

cross-dressing as a theme in respect to art and criticism represents, an undertheorized recognition of the need for this type of t...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

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...

Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fashions for Women

up slightly in the back in order to show a little bit of ankle or even the calf of her leg when flirting with a gentleman. Swim...

Narrative Speech Under Critical Analysis

in the continuing fight for womens rights. With the very first line, Truth exposes her defiance toward the systems rules, which, ...

Medea and Antigone as Representatives of Fifth Century BCE Women

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

Young Women and Advertising

titled "The body impolitic: fashion and its critics sell the same stereotypes" and is written by John Leland (1996). In this artic...

Young Women and the Negative Effects of Advertising

and its critics sell the same stereotypes" and is written by John Leland (1996). It comes to us from the June 17, 1996 edition of ...

New Republic of the Eighteenth Century, Women, and Marriage

this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Depiction of Women in 2 Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

Creative Depiction of Women

In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...

Interviewee 59 of Harvard's Refugee Project

if she agrees with other things. She is not completely against the model. At the same time, there are rather distressing stories c...

Ancient Greek Women and the Effects of Medicine, Law, and Architecture

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

Women of the 19th Century and the Issues That Confronted Them

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

Alcohol Abuse and Women

interviewed more than 40 recovered and active alcoholic women across the United States: young, old; black, white; sisters, mothers...

Analyzing the Biblical Eve

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

Nineteenth Century Great Britain, Middle Class and Working Women

self worth and capabilities that remained in the forefront of their adult lives. For nineteenth century British working cla...

Unfair Exclusion in the Process of Adoption

adoption system. A case study may help to demonstrate why a parent should be allowed to adopt again, even if she had endured a pot...