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Essays 331 - 360

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...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Relationships Between Men and Women in Literature and Throughout History

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

Society and Women's Place According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

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...

Islamic Women

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

Trafficking of Women Yesterday and Today

gain. There are a variety of factors which impact trafficking and an understanding of a few of them will highlight the point that...

Ancient Greece and Women's Roles

Artemis, and her hair was cut. For the next several months the bride was taught the domestic duties she would perform for the rest...

Domestic Abuse and Violence

was of paramount importance. Thankfully, after many beatings, lacerations, and threats she packed up and left before the headlines...

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...

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...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Japanese and British Societies and Cultures

Time is also significant in respect to the use of time, measures of time, as well as time orientation (2001). There are difference...

Maria Luisa Bombal's Works Compared

her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, ...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

A Move for the Simplification of Spelling In American and British Society

are spelled. There are far more sounds in the English language than the twenty-six letters which make up our alphabet. As a resu...

Richardson and Fielding as Critics of British Society

rather than allowing her marriage to Tom. From the onset, Fielding makes it clear that his sympathies are with the young lovers an...

Legal Cases that Change Society

considered right to life, as well as an individuals right to choose. The Court elected not to address the right to life issue, fo...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

Society and Women

writes this in the 1950s when things were quite different. De Beauvoir examines women through the ages and how they have been seco...

Jane Eyre as a reflection of changing society

This paper looks at the perspective of English society in the nineteenth century which is presented in Charlotte Bronte's novel. I...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...

Cultural Diversity and Commitments to Increased Awareness

In a paper consisting of eight pages a woman's efforts to increase cultural diversity awareness on organizational, personal, and i...

Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Conventionality and Freedom

This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...

Patriarchal Designs of Women's Roles

In a paper consisting of twenty three pages this paper discusses how the English patriarchal society designs women's life roles wi...

Transcending Space and Time in The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

This paper consists of eleven pages and considers how in the novel the subversion of women to the stereotype of unintelligence and...

Second World War and Women's Status

In three pages this research paper discusses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath upon women's status in the workp...