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Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

Women and the Australian Legal System: A 13 page paper in 2 parts

of men only. It was not until 1987 - nearly 100 years after the schools emergence as a school and well over 100 years after its f...

A Medea Analysis

In her soliloquy, shortly before she kills the boys, she asks why should she do something that will hurt not only Jason, but herse...

Lysistrata and Medea

revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...

Comparative Analysis of Hester Prynne and Medea

bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...

Reason and Passion in Euripides' Medea

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

Medea and Sacrifice

she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...

Women And Depression

of their physical, biological and social milieu, and how we respond is governed by genetic make-up" (pp. 44-45). Postpartum-relat...

Oedipus and Medea: Leadership and Kingship

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

Religion and the Role of Women in the Middle East

gender equality is seen throughout the world and not limited to the Middle East (Kandiyoti, 1991). To assess the link between wo...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Article Analysis: Power as a Theme in Women's History

lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

The Role of the Gods in "Medea"

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

A Discussion of Caretakers of Our Common House by Carol Lakey Hess

values within mixed religious communities and they grow from this socialization, women too need an environment where they can asse...

Women's Special Interest Groups in Canada

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...

Is Medea a Feminist Work?

must leave and also leave the children with him. In all honesty there is no reason why he should have dismissed her in such a mann...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

The Role of Women in Islamic Society

no means represent the lives of most Muslim women (2002). What are the lives of most like? How are women viewed in Muslim society?...

Why There Are Few Women Running for Office

as solid political material. As a result, there are handfuls of women politicians on the national level, perhaps a few more women ...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Empowerment in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Medea by Euripides

they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...

Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Nora

society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

1776 to 1865 The Role of America Women

and as such the incidence of male dominance were more prevalent. It is ironic in the land which had just claimed freedom the soci...

Drama of Euripides

This paper consists of five pages and examines Euripides' psychological dramas Hippolytus, Medea, and Alcestis in terms of their d...

Classical Literature Compared

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

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...