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Great Britain and Patriarchal Societies

reflected in the laws of inheritance. Consequently, in order that the children could inherit the family wealth which was the prope...

Abigail Adams, An American Woman by Charles W. Akers

In this paper containing five pages this insightful bibliography of an American First Lady is discussed as it reveals an accurate ...

Human Rights and Latin American Indigenous Women

roles between the male and female in the more ancient components of indigenous society, these differences were justifiable in term...

Bedouin Society, Kinship, and Rights of Women

In five pages this research essay considers Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu Lughod in a discussion of Bedouin society and the lack o...

Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner

In five pages this essay considers feminism and how the life of Mary Wollstonecraft shaped her women's rights activism. There are...

Chinese Communism and Women

In a paper consisting of eight pages the ways in which Chinese Communism had little inclination of incorporating women's rights in...

20th Century Women's Suffrage Movement

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

Indonesian Women, Their Status

This research paper offers an overview of the status of Indonesian women in regards to educational achievement, employment status ...

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

The Rights of Women Seen in the Decisions of the Supreme Court

Second World War, the ongoing reluctance was seen, in the case of Tileston v Ullman 318 US 44 (1943) a doctor brought a case on be...

Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

Social Issues in Brazil

wealthy elite and a massively poor population; women are making strides but injustice and problems based on gender are rampant; an...

The Militant Movement in the Fight for Women’s Votes

also one that had the potential to be misleading (Smith). The political stance of both the WSPU and NUWSS was to gain votes equal...

The Evolution of Women's Rights

the Victorian era. Unfortunately, despite attention being paid to the question of womens rights for the first time, the actual soc...

Hitler and Power

to exert any political influence with a situation where womens rights appeared not only to be low but also diminishing with plans ...

The Suffrage Movement and Race

Women were fighting for their rights during the suffrage movement, but they could not move forward without addressing the issue of...

Why Isn’t the Prochoice Argument Applied to Prostitution and Drug Use?

The abortion debate is characterized by two camps of argument. These camps are the...

Maria W. Stewart, Early Abolitionist

as well as several of Stewarts essays. Stewarts connection with Garrison began when she brought him a religious-political treatise...

19th Century American Reforms

virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities ...

Women in Male Trades

of men, one can well assume that a woman has one right a man does not and that involves maternity leave. Of course more and more o...

Mary Wollstonecraft

She further notes, for example, how "The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by ...

Significance of Nineteenth Century Women

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

Women’s Rights and Islam: Sunni vs Shia

to confront the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The Shiites, in contrast, felt like this position was destined to be filled w...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Women's Rights: How Small Strides were Made During the Renaissance

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

Islam and Women’s Rights

before, however, Islam is very much an "exposed" religion. It comes to us through practically every medium as each news or public...

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

The Abortion Argument

the risk involved in the abortion is in and of itself a reason to suggest that it should be put off. Women use abortion-because it...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...