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Islamic Women

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

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Women

of development and which necessitated the imposition of one husband on the woman, whereas a man was left free to have several wive...

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...

Hannah Foster's The Coquette

Eliza was unable to decide between her two suitors, the attractive but...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

Women in Yellow Wallpaper and The Changeling

lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...

Feminist Perspectives on Frankenstein Being Symbolic of Women’s Fate

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

2 Professorial Views on Women and the Issue of Rape

have been planned. She asserts that that patriarchy is the theory and rape is the practice. Renee Heberle (1996), a politi...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

The Modern Relevance of Euripides' Hecuba

was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...

Roe v. Wade Will Never be Overturned

the state has no interest in fetal life prior to a certain stage of development (when the fetus had developed to the point where i...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

Changes in American Society: Women in the Workforce

role of women in society and early women workers. Expansion of the role of working women. Present day jobs. Societal change...

Abuse of Women in Muslim Societies: The Cultural Contributors

society, women are often subjected to a variety of abuses, both physical and psychological. Sadly, nowhere is this form of abuse m...

Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

Chinese Tradition and Womanhood

women played as mothers, servants, and leaders, even reflecting upon local leadership and the definition of matriarchal social seg...

The Fight For Asiain Equality

were, and in some countries still are, preferred over female children. Nevertheless, when they were allowed personal and inte...

Society's Standards of Beauty in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

Middle Ages and Prostitution

In ten pages this paper examines the Middle Ages in terms of how prostitution evolved with the reasons women entered this professi...

Women and Homelessness

In twenty pages homelessness is examined with the focus being on women and the reasons that contribute to their homeless plight al...

Marriage and Women in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In three pages this paper discusses how Nora and Torwald represent women's status in society and in marriage. There is no bibliog...

Women's Oppression in the Old Testament and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

Women's Perceived Inferiority is Not Biological But Social

This essay consists of six pages in which the argument that the perceived inferiority of women is based in society and not biology...

The Portrayal of Women in Biggers “The House Without A Key” T

assessment of the likelihood of her return "And was there any chance that his strong-minded relative would take the hint? Not one ...

An Early Religious Movement

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

Explication of a Passage in "The Scarlet Letter"

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...