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Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Problems of Pregnant Women Who Smoke and Solutions

(About Pregnancy and Smoking, 2002). There include, both mother and baby will be healthier, the baby is more likely to be born he...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

Kathleen Blee's Women of the Klan

before World War I, but by all accounts they were not as organized, nor prolific as they became after the war. Why was this, Blee ...

Women and the Effects of Male Bias

the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn t...

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...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

1955 to 1975 Feminist Movement Rebirth

participant within the workplace was but one aspect of feminism between 1955 and 1975; however, along with it also came undesirabl...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Taiwan and the Campaign for the Rights of Women

movement toward womens rights. One of the most important changes with regard to the changing role of women in Taiwan is tha...

Medieval Literature and Male Role Model Challenging

theological thought (Moritz). Some of the fundamental thoughts within the texts maintained that women should be kept meek and subm...

Patriarchy Shackled Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Women

they all present us with an obsessive narrator. The examination of the poems also illustrates how Browning presents us with women ...

Nazi Revolution and Women's Role

As a result, birth rates in Germany eventually rose and the Nazi party viewed this is a positive light. The family structure cert...

Girls, Women, and the Impact of the Media

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

Gender Gap and Women in Business

beer commercials with the husbands drinking beer in a bar while the wives dutifully stay home taking care of the children and the ...

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Strong Women

least compared with the number of male creatures--the women that did exist were indeed powerful. In fact, one could argue that ha...

Women's Careers and Social Roles

and while these are only fictional characters, they do indeed reflect the changes in society in terms of womens roles and work. Th...

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

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

Combat Restrictions on Women in the Military

1995). These restriction of women from the areas of direct ground combat has left 27% of the positions available in the Army still...

Arthurian Legends and the Depiction of Women

The earliest texts of Arthur skim over the women, focusing mainly on the achievements of King Arthur himself, and his success in b...

Seventeenth Century Courtly Culture of France and Women

as well as what occurred at other levels of the social scale. For example, literature and the arts represented a great part of Fr...

Islamic Women

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

3 Issues Regarding Popular Culture and the Media

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

Reproductive Rights and the Feminist Debate

to continue to overpopulate a world whose ecology is already in serious danger. Feminist also vary on the issues of technological...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Frances Burney and Jane Austen on Realism and Women

not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

North and South Perspectives and the American Civil War

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

Women's Footwear as the Focus of Nike

lounge and diaper changing facility (2001). A concierge with parcel delivery to local hotels is also included (2001). After the t...