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'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

Frances Heidensohn's Women in Control?

the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

China and Women's Roles

but isnt any longer. As the Cultural Revolution had its impact upon Chinese society, the role of women was forever changed...

Women's Roles in India and China

have come from and where they are going. There is bound to be more change in the future for these women as barriers continue to b...

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and the Role of Women

has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...

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...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

Discontent and Domesticity

their children for the world (May). This was then their own contribution to the workplace and to the national effort (May)....

Roles of Women in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

who is equal to them or perhaps wealthier than their families. Elizabeth is a woman who is not concerned with these things and fee...

Medieval Marriage and Women's Roles in 'The Clerk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages this character analysis of Griselda in 'The Clerk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer discusses how she reflects Medieval p...

Women's Role and the Concept of Marriage

In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...

Gender and Culture in America by Linda Stone and Nancy McKee

In five pages this book is examined and various questions regarding gender, biology, and culture are answered....

Former Yugoslavia and Globalisation's Political Influence

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how globalisation has influenced the former Yugoslavia with changing women's roles the prima...

Gone with the Wind, Patriarchy, and Gender Roles of the Antebellum South

also of the survivors of the overall destruction of this exclusive caste system. Shortly after the initial publication of Gon...

Medieval Women's Role in The Romance of Tristan and Beowulf

In five pages this paper examines the role of women in Medieval society in a literary analysis of The Romance of Tristan and Beowu...

Post 1970's Roles of Women

Resnick Sandler, while examining a presidential footnote on a Civil Rights amendment from 1968, discovered that President Johnson ...

Customs and Culture Associated with the Creek Indians

In twelve pages this paper discusses the detrimental cultural impact on the Creek Indians following European contact in a consider...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Women's Role

Christian religion is being discussed. In Catholicism and the Lutheran faiths, women are not allowed to be priests or reverends. I...

The Bible and Women's Roles

In fifteen pages this paper examines women's roles in the Bible. Thirteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

Women's Roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

Societal Influence of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt

In eleven pages this paper discusses Nefertiti's influence on society in a consideration of women's roles, politics, religion, and...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Women

In five pages Circe, the Sirens, Nausikaa, Helen, Calypson, Athena, and Penelope are examined in this discussion of how women's ro...

Mozambique and the Roles of Women

This paper considers women's roles in this impoverished part of the world in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...