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In the Hebrew Bible, women have varying roles but the most important roles are wife and mother. Most often, they are not seen as e...

The writer considers the argument that developing countries are losing a potentially valuable resource by holding back women, prev...

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

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

of things from a military perspective. There is not only the integrity of the individual and the integrity of the military but al...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

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

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

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

to the post in 2002 for a second five-year term (Arenson, 2002). This means that at the time Arenson wrote her article, more than ...

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...