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Contemporary Society and Body Image

In ten pages body image is considered in this overview and examines how culture and media influence body perception along with res...

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...

Women and the Impact of the Media

Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...

Modern Gender Issues and Sigmund Freud

In seven pages this paper examines how the bias women experience in the contemporary workplace can be attributed to the theories o...

Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

In five pages these texts are contrasted and compared as they portray the pressures of contemporary American culture on young wome...

Female Stereotypes in Post-Modern and Current Media

careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mud slide .... A metaphor for the struggle between...

Nursing, Pregnancy, and Use of Cocaine

In twelve pages contemporary literature relevant to the nursing role in at risk population pregnancies concentrating on the use of...

Contemporary Japanese Women's Roles

Roles of women in contemporary Japan are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in an overview from political and socioe...

Twenty First Century Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

Victorian Age Hypocrisy and Advice

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...

Analysis of 5 Major Issues Including Corporate Media Control, Religion, Sexual Violence, and Race

of racism in America? Almost oblivious, some would say, to the naked eye, but when held up to the light of justice and plain human...

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...

Observation and Self Definition in Women's Studies

that "ladder of success," or does that mean that they are not on the rung that they would like to be. Since they are the ones who...

Good Mother 'Myth' Perpetuated by Princess Diana

sad. Elton John rewrote Candle in the Wind for Diana, one of her favorites, and played it at her funeral. This version was mass p...

Goodness Perpetuated by Jesus

they were representative of all the various facets that rest within Christianity. One can surmise through Smith and Novaks ...

The Impact Of Women In The Military And Combat Roles

while the men were away at war. However, this particular battle represented a great deal of change within and among the steadfast...

Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

The Value of Women's Studies

women as opposed to men. Women it seems are on the whole more interested in legislation involving the family and such issues as e...

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...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

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

The “Washington Consensus” and Latin America

that interdependence has been substantial. Foreign debt has been its primary manifestation but there have been problems relating ...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

The Body In Consumer Culture: Performing Masculinity

buff model. Indeed, it can easily be argued that while there is some form of embellishment in most advertising, employing bodybui...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

The Role of Married Women in Japan

entire society will suffer. Why limit the contributions of half the population because of the tradition of male dominance? Becau...

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...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...