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Essays 241 - 270
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...
their children for the world (May). This was then their own contribution to the workplace and to the national effort (May)....
who is equal to them or perhaps wealthier than their families. Elizabeth is a woman who is not concerned with these things and fee...
Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...
out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...
to be enmeshed, an interesting point of view holds the notion that sex is biological and gender is cultural; others believe that b...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...
the United States of affirmative action, this must be seen as an indication of the continued and effective existence of a glass ce...
was apparently trying to be a noble and honorable man, but still it almost seems as though it was the womans fault for being an ob...
the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...
in government policy-making, for example....
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...
police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...
in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
the roles of men and women and the cultural history of this place. It also offers a basis for perhaps sympathizing with the women ...
general. Why might the latter matter? It is easier for those with more means to vote. People who do not vote notoriously do not ...
are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...
men and of the meaning of love all together. She screams to herself, "will any kind of hole satisfy these beasts?"(Taktsis 1986). ...
a pattern which has reemerged throughout history. Fortunes were made from the new technology which surfaced during the industrial ...
the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
time expresses: "Rank creates its rules: A woman is asked about her husband, A man is asked about his rank" (Callender 12). By fa...
library (Oregon State, 2006). By the time she was six years of age she had read everything in his library (Sor Juana Ines de la Cr...
food, and visual arts, while non-material culture is the unseen - language, music, and literature. In America, buildings are tall...
the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...