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Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Female Sexuality and Racial Differences

female sexuality. This fact is universal. Female sexuality threatens the male on a fundamental level. First and foremost, human be...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

Women and Geoffrey Chaucer

to some extent. One critics opinion seems to support such a perspective: "The Wife of Baths negative image seems only to have chan...

Women and Men, Language, and Difference Implications

be easier to deal with if work was the only place where one ran into this problem, but too often, it occurs at home. Many husband...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

Shop Examination

images signs and signals were used to create the views f masculinity in the 1980s. It was argued here that the representation of m...

Harassment in the Workplace

of which include creating a more productive work environment, reducing the ever-looming threat of legal action and building a foun...

Eriksson's Personality Model Application

despair (Holme, 1972, p. 427). In order to illustrate Eriksons model, consider these two people: Ashlynn and Kate. Ashlynn is a ...

Social Behavior from a Structural Perspective

bitterness in reporting that she took care of her mother and her entire family even as a young girl. Given that "the mention of h...

Tales of Devious Caribbean Women by Hispanic Authors

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...

Comparison of The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan and Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

were women who had achieved positions of social respectability. There is admittedly little in the way of biographical information...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

1960s Black Female Writers

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

Canada and Gender Violence

a semblance of a reason why a man might turn into a monster, and it just might be that domestic violence and substance abuse are r...

Marlene Moore's Case and Female Prisoners

27, Marlene had spent more of her life in prison than outside of it, following a lonely and isolated childhood with a lonely and i...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

Early Industrialization and the Theories of Goldin and Sokoloff

that the closer a firm was to a city, the smaller the opportunity for women and children (Goldin and Sokoloff, 1982). Still, when ...

Family Alcoholism and its Impact on Teenage Girls' Development

what can be termed as an adrenaline rush of energy and after a brief struggle, turned the knife back on her father. II. LITERATUR...

Female Characters in Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...

Secret by Nurrdin Farah

Sholoongo is a woman transformed. She had gone to live in America and had long assumed that her "pact" with Kalaman would be hono...

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

'The World's Oldest Profession' as a Degradation of Women

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

Metaphorical Uses of Hunger

female sexuality. In beginning this section of her discussion, Bordo turns to a Haagen-Das ice-cream ad. The banner for the ad s...