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Nineteenth Century Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, she wrote, "A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern langua...

Neurosis in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...

Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Three Novels on Women as Victims of Violence

In five pages this research paper analyzes how women were victimized by social oppression and violence in Edwidge Danticat's Breat...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

up in the feminist movement. The authors insightful notions of patriarchal elitism, which are particularly apparent in chapter 3 ...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Nineteenth Century Woman as Defined by Jane Austen

This paper consists of four pages and examines the social, domestic, perceived, and realistic definitions of women's roles as repr...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

Women in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and Changing Social Roles

In eight pages women and their changing social roles are considered in a comparative analysis of women in the U.S. and their Saudi...

Society of Somalia, Women's Status, and the Values of Islam

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how in Somalia the values of Islam are directly related to women's social status. ...

Three Decades of American Freshmen

In nineteen pages this paper examines the changing American freshman class in a literature overview that includes demographics, hi...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

last comment is an example of Brookners sense of humor, which one can presume is the main appeal of the book, if it coincides with...

Roles of Women in the Works of Euripides and Aeschylus

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines how women's social roles are depicted in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by ...

Somalian Women and Islam

This paper consists of five pages and discusses Somalian women's social position and how it is influenced by the values of Islam. ...

Women's Social Status and Menstrual Blood

In eight pages this paper discusses menstrual blood, also known as 'the curse,' and how it influences female social status. Five ...

1800 to 1820 Fashions for Women

In ten pages this research paper presents an overview of the Regency Period of the 19th century as reflected in women's fashions a...

The Male Influences on the Writing of Adrienne Rich

born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

US Civil War and Women in Combat

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

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...

Does PMS Actually Exist?

and those that are will suffer in varying degrees (What is Premenstrual Syndrome? 2003). Among the many typical symptoms...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

Women's Rights and W.E.B. Du Bois

noble nature against the blighting American cast prejudice". (Ferris, 1913, pg. 599). DuBois recognized...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Women's 14th Century Social Position

discontent with societys lopsided gender scale. The tale begins with Queen Guinevere pondering the fate of a knight who has been ...

Gendered Issue of Domestic Violence

independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Role of Women in WWII/A Research Proposal

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...