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Ancient Societies and Women in Sundiata and 'Beowulf'

himself was portrayed as the incarnate of evil, whose ravenous attacks on King Hrothgars subjects were nothing more than examples ...

Women's Role in the Epic of Gilgamesh

lost natural state, at which point Shamhat offers to take him to the city where the joys of "civilization shine in their resplende...

Women Targeted in Puritan Witchcraft Accusations

was execution day for eight people in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping ...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

Women in Society and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale

Ulrichs works is primarily filled with Martha Ballards diary of her work. Her work is presented in a very unemotional and very str...

Social Inequality and Women

real women portraying such characters and this just encourages such perspectives. We see women in almost every single occu...

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...

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...

The Fight For Asiain Equality

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

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...

Chinese Tradition and Womanhood

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

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,...

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...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Reviewing Advertising Since 1950 in the United States

In five pages this paper discusses advertising in America and how it reflects and represents women, the family, society, and the t...

Japan and Traditional Women's Role

This paper discusses Japan's society in terms of the role women have traditionally played such as wife, geisha, and also examines ...

Patriarchy, Roles of Women, and the Goddess

In five pages this report examines the Goddess global cultural stories and legends in a consideration of what they reflect in term...

A Review of Cherokee Women by Theda Perdue

delved further into some cultures and noted that they were matriarchal. Perdue does this when presenting us with the history of th...

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...

Bedouin Society, Kinship, and Rights of Women

In five pages this research essay considers Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu Lughod in a discussion of Bedouin society and the lack o...

The Caribbean Influence of African Women

In five pages the influence of African women in the Caribbean in terms of economics, politics, and society are discussed. There a...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Women as Perceived by Niccolo Machiavelli

In ten pages this paper examines how Machiavelli perceived women and how they are perceived by past and present society. Nine sou...

The Lais of Marie de France and Erbyggia Saga

In five pages this research paper considers the role of women in Medieval society as depicted within these literary works. Three ...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Gender Bias in Education: Girls’ Diminished Participation in Classroom Discussions

We begin with a brief literature review, then follow that with a discussion of the consensus, if there is one, of what the literat...