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Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Twentieth Century Gender History

This paper presents an overview of the 20th century events that changed the way society perceives and understands gender and women...

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...

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih and Women

her, an early sign of emotional sterility and disdain for women however kind they may have been to him" (Mustafa Said-ism). He ...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Significance of Women in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

Eighteenth Century British Literature and Women

Evelina Evelina was Burneys first and most successful novel (Description of Evelina, 2002). It is a story in which Burney...

Vigil in Maria Lopez's Cuba Neither Heaven Nor Hell and Gustav Firmat's Ano Que Viene Estamos en Cuba

This two Cuba texts are contrasted and compared in 5 pages with women's roles, democratization, cultural and national identity amo...

Masculinity in The Tale of Genji

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

Women and Buddhism

"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....

Dhammapada's Social Lessons

In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Ancient Societies' Marital Customs

This paper contrasts and compares the marital customs and women's roles in various ancient societies in 5 pages. Five sources are...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Women

with trouble as he holds Desdemonas handkerchief. Bianca notes it and states: "O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

Discontent and Domesticity

their children for the world (May). This was then their own contribution to the workplace and to the national effort (May)....

Civilizations of Islam, Greece, and Rome

in government policy-making, for example....

Female Roles in Matthew Lewis' The Monk

was apparently trying to be a noble and honorable man, but still it almost seems as though it was the womans fault for being an ob...

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...

Gender in Beowulf

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

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

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

Women of Somalia

This research paper addresses the problem of continued discrimination and violence against the Somalian women. The writer describe...

Genesis, 2 Kings, Chronicles

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...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...