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Historic Roles of Women As Portrayed by Dramatists

In five pages the way women have been historically portrayed by dramatists are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Women's Roles and Dramatists

can no longer continue the role of "doll," and "little squirrel," that she had maintained married to Tovald. She decides must find...

Genesis, 2 Kings, Chronicles

In the Hebrew Bible, women have varying roles but the most important roles are wife and mother. Most often, they are not seen as e...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

U.S. Workforce and the Role of African American Women

In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

A review of Common Sense by Thomas Paine

is a European concept of kingship that "extends as far back into European, Middle Eastern, and Northern African history as the pra...

The Life and Career of Playwright Arthur Miller

miller.htm) was single-handedly instrumental in establishing Miller as one of the most well-received and respected writers. ...

The Role of Women in Islamic Society

no means represent the lives of most Muslim women (2002). What are the lives of most like? How are women viewed in Muslim society?...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Republic by Plato and Women's Role

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...

Women's Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Bram Stoker's Dracula

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented 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 ...

Ancient Society and Women's Role

In five pages this paper discusses how Apuleius portrays women's role in ancient society in The Golden Ass in comparison to the so...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Women

In five pages Circe, the Sirens, Nausikaa, Helen, Calypson, Athena, and Penelope are examined in this discussion of how women's ro...

1950s Women's Roles

to their social and political benefit. Womens portrayal in Theodore Roethkes "I Knew a Woman" reflects the difference betw...

Films My Brilliant Career, Annie Hall, Educating Rita, and The Piano and the Portrayal of Strong Women

This paper examines women's roles and status and how they are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these films consisting of eig...

Hayashi Fumiko's Writings and the Roles of Women

year old Hayashi and left the house. The child and her mother lived what we in the west label a "pillar to post existence," both,...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

1776 to 1865 The Role of America Women

and as such the incidence of male dominance were more prevalent. It is ironic in the land which had just claimed freedom the soci...

Latino Community and Women's Changing Role

In nine pages this paper examines the impact of redefining a woman's family role in this consideration of how in the Latino commun...

The Transformation of the Role of Women in Mexico

4 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the changing role of women in Mexico during colonialism. This paper pr...

A Review of The Clerk's Tale and Traffic in Women

A 10 page exploration of the 1975 contentions of anthropologist Gayle Rubin. Her article, The Traffic in Women Notes on the Poli...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...