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The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Tobacco Use and Gender

morning cough, were somehow genteel and ladylike. Philip Morris Cos. Inc. decided that its brand needed to have a classy, sophisti...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

Society, Power, Gender and Sexuality

equality. In that sense, womens rights are not a universal good; neither are they timeless" (Luh PG). The 1920s represente...

Education Attainment and Gender

2002). The way in which the curriculum is delivered under the current system focuses heavily...

Comparing Kate Chopin Tales 'The Story of an Hour' and 'Desiree's Baby'

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

James Bond Films and Female Protagonists Electra King and Rosa Klebb

Enough" (2000) she poses little threat to him, as her role is different, it is merely to delay and keep him occupied whilst anoth...

Books V and VIII of The Republic by Plato

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

Gender and Economics

that women are now equal, and have the same opportunities as do men, the idea that this is what makes women equal is a misnomer. D...

UK Tort Law and Inequality of Gender

result of their employment and the latter to personal relationships. Under common law, assault and battery can constitute ...

How the Stories of Oresteia and Antigone Related to Values and Interests of Men and Women

lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...

Variations According to Gender in Parenting Styles

play activity. The point is that both ways of relating to children are important for their overall development. This conception o...

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and its Continuity

with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...

Advertising and Male and Female Images

popular culture today. It is though advertisements, movies, radio broadcasts, even bill boards that we have filled the cultural v...

Cinderella and the 'Glass Slipper Syndrome'

ever after, and the castle needed to be cleaned. The whole fantasy fell down around the ears of many housewives in the fifties and...

Gender and Death in 4 Poems by Anne Sexton

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

Issues Associated with Rape

and political involvement. Centuries later, women are still battling against patriarchal control even within progressive and demo...

Gender Issues and Class in Karl Reisz's Film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

Comparing Crime Dramas Crossing Jordan and CSI

Cases vary from week to week. In an episode known as Stalker, Jan Galloway was obviously fearful when her body was found. It was n...

US Sexuality and the Media

up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Women

that a female writer needs a room of ones own, she means this both figuratively and literally. She says: "All I could do was to of...

Gender Assumption in Boys Don't Cry

of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...

Society and Personal Ads

notes that the tradition of cruising for "pen pals" through contact ads, as he calls them, got its popularity because the ". . . U...

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange

the feminist movement served to establish a semblance of organization between and among the foundational elements of contemporary ...

2 Interpretations of Gender in Islam

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

Gender Gap and Women in Business

beer commercials with the husbands drinking beer in a bar while the wives dutifully stay home taking care of the children and the ...

Analyzing Behind the Mask of Chivalry by Nancy Maclean

is the profile of the "typical" Klan member. He wasnt a beer-drinking loser unable to hold a job and who beats his wife for fun. ...