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Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

Art and the Images of Women

themes and strategies I do wonder if women, who are artists, or artists who are women, consciously have themes of resistance. Fr...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Influence on Feminism

This paper examines the works and life of Wollstonecraft in terms of her impact on women's suffrage and the women's rights movemen...

First World War and Gendered War Perspectives

In ten pages this paper examines the concept of warfare in a consideration of the differing views between men and women regarding ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of men and women within the context of this work as it has been presented in the ...

Music Industry History and the Role of Women

This paper discusses music industry history in terms of female involvement in six pages which considers the articles 'Duality and ...

Women and the Concept of Gender in Paradise Lost

This paper looks at the conceptualization of gender within the context of Milton's Paradise Lost. The writer discusses some of the...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Anger in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid

In nine pages this research essay discussed how Kincaid employs language to express her anger over the imprisonment of 'foreign' l...

American Subcultures, Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters, and the Writings of Kingston and Chavez

In five pages this paper examines how in Woman Warrior by Kingston and Face of an Angel by Chavez the authors present the mother a...

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...

Religion and Women's Images

either they werent invited or were present and were later written out of the scriptures. This resulted in the Pali canon being der...

Coaching Across the Gender Gap

New ideas on gender roles espoused by the feminist movement have resulted in women taking positions that were heretofore denied th...

Health Care Delivery and Gender Prejudice Against Women

demonstrated that women are, indeed, less likely to receive more "sophisticated" or more invasive procedures than men. The ...

Differences Between Women and Men

In five pages this paper examines gender differences in order to determine that some stereotypes of women as more nurturing as par...

Computer Phobia and Gender Differences

they need from its depths. It has been estimated that only about 10 percent of approximately twenty million internet users around...

Misogyny and Canada

In fifteen pages this paper argues that Canada is not misogynous in a consideration of such issues as gender comparisons regarding...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

The Transformation of the Role of Women in Mexico

4 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the changing role of women in Mexico during colonialism. This paper pr...

U.S. Women's Rights History

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's rights in a historical consideration that includes Anthony, Stanton, the...

Late Imperial China and Gender Ideals Contested by Women

In five pages this paper discusses how during the late Imperial China period women were able to contest gender barriers that had b...

China and Rights of Women

In five pages this paper examines this historical problem as addressed by the Bejing UN conference on women's rights in 1995 with ...

Social and Domestic Abuse in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

-- and did his society support his right to do so? In order to answer this question, we need to look at the background of Chinese...

Talking 9 to 5 by Deborah Tannen

In five pages Tannen's text is summarized and analyzed with support for her assertion that gender styles of communication has prof...

Entrepreneurial Women

corporate America. Some people-men and women alike-simply want to be working for themselves and their families rather than for so...

Women and Telecommunications II

at which to stare. An interesting point that Zimmerman makes is that women are being exploited. The author describes in great...

Overland Trail Experiences of Women and Men and Identity Differences

In five pages this paper considers how gender identity differences characterize the diverse experiences of men and women on the Ov...

Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King

prove their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude t...

The Iron Age: Gender and Women

In 5 pages, this paper examines how roles and status of women were determined during the Iron Age. There are 4 sources cited....

Socialization and Gender Culture

In three pages this paper a book chapter pertaining to socialization and gender culture is covered in terms of its primary points ...