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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...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Automobile Repair Racket Targeting of Women

1992 that of every dollar women spent on automotive repairs, fifty cents of that dollar were not necessary expenditures and at tim...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

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

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

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

Islamic Women's Lives

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

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

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

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

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

Women in Ancient Greece

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

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

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

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Margaret Sanger

hold a great deal of authority when it comes to changing the attitudes and perspectives of young girls who may believe living off ...

Hayashi Fumiko's Writings and the Roles of Women

year old Hayashi and left the house. The child and her mother lived what we in the west label a "pillar to post existence," both,...

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

Older Women and Fertility

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

Fatima Mernissi's Beyond the Veil Reviewed

In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....

Overview of the Women Against Pornography Organization

international nongovernmental organization with consultative status to the United Nations. She has represented hundreds of victims...

Taiwan and Women's Changing Role

in the equation that supported the ideal that women are inferior. Based on a conviction of inferiority, male authorities were the...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

1820s and 1840s Age of the Common Man

to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Henri and Julia and World War I

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

Colonial Latin American Women

a traitor to her own people because of her cooperation with the Spanish, acting as an interpreter for Cortez (Gish PG). Hurtado ha...

Women’s Rights in the Military

cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...

Women's Baseball Leagues in Historical Context

Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 for example (Roberts, 2005). The womens movement had begun and baseball was an...

How Women Have Been Depicted in Advertising Copy

in the Past In first looking at the past in relationship to advertisements we note that one of the primary goals of advertisemen...

Tobacco Industry Advertising Goals Regarding Women and Smoking

In five pages this research paper considers teen and women tobacco addiction in a consideration of target advertising in a discuss...

Late Imperial China and Gender Ideals Contested by Women

In five pages this paper discusses how during the late Imperial China period women were able to contest gender barriers that had b...