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Literary Women in Ancient Rome and in the 20th Century

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

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...

Women and Sexuality in Greek Life

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the time of Pericles and the status of gays and women in a contrast and comparison t...

Treatment of Women in Islamic Societies

repressive, male chauvinistic tribal era Islamic society were compelled to do what they had to in order to survive. Unfortunately...

Rebekah and Nausicaa in the Bible and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...

How Anorexia in Featured in Texts by Cathi Hanauer and Margaret Atwood

In five pages anorexia as reflected in My Sister's Bones by Hanauer and The Edible Woman by Atwood are compared and contrasted in ...

Gender Roles and Society

women have taken on more responsibility. There are many reasons for this lack of change on the part of the male species. For on...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In a paper consisting of seven pages Medieval society is considered in terms of the consequences regarding to 'what women want' wi...

Nineteenth Century Victorian England's Fallen Women

In eleven pages this paper discusses how women were marginalized in England's nineteenth century Victorian society. Four sources ...

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

Hannah Foster's The Coquette

Eliza was unable to decide between her two suitors, the attractive but...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Women

of development and which necessitated the imposition of one husband on the woman, whereas a man was left free to have several wive...

Patriarchy Shackled Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

Women's Roles As Seen by Woolf and Conrad

size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...

Middle Ages and Prostitution

In ten pages this paper examines the Middle Ages in terms of how prostitution evolved with the reasons women entered this professi...

Women and Homelessness

In twenty pages homelessness is examined with the focus being on women and the reasons that contribute to their homeless plight al...

The Fight For Asiain Equality

were, and in some countries still are, preferred over female children. Nevertheless, when they were allowed personal and inte...

Chinese Tradition and Womanhood

women played as mothers, servants, and leaders, even reflecting upon local leadership and the definition of matriarchal social seg...

Women's Oppression in the Old Testament and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Society's Standards of Beauty in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

Women's Perceived Inferiority is Not Biological But Social

This essay consists of six pages in which the argument that the perceived inferiority of women is based in society and not biology...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

2 Professorial Views on Women and the Issue of Rape

have been planned. She asserts that that patriarchy is the theory and rape is the practice. Renee Heberle (1996), a politi...