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Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta and the Nigerian Woman's Role

Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooe...

Successful Women's Soccer in the US

world" (Anonymous #3, 2002), there came to be a grand shake up when a number of top nations withdrew from the 1928 Olympics. This...

Procedure of Breast Augmentation

In six pages the procedure of breast augmentation is examined in terms of how it reflects a woman's personal well being as well as...

Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner

In five pages this essay considers feminism and how the life of Mary Wollstonecraft shaped her women's rights activism. There are...

American Media Portrayal of UK and Italy Elections

This paper examines how the US media treats elections in the United Kingdom and Italy in 5 pages....

Portrayal of Families in Robert Frost's 'Home Burial' and John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation

imaginative young man. Initially, Ouisa and Flan are entertaining and doing their best to suck up to South African businessman, ...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

Chinese Communism and Women

In a paper consisting of eight pages the ways in which Chinese Communism had little inclination of incorporating women's rights in...

20th Century Women's Suffrage Movement

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

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...

Abigail Adams, An American Woman by Charles W. Akers

In this paper containing five pages this insightful bibliography of an American First Lady is discussed as it reveals an accurate ...

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'

In a paper that is consists of 5 pages the African American woman Timbu is chronicled through parallels, symbolism, themes, and st...

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...

Holocaust Literature and the Portrayal of Children

adults, their youth and relative weakness decreased their chances of survival in the camps, where they were subjected to violence,...

Medieval Literature and Portrayal of Political Issues

code of chivalry. This code of chivalry was something seen throughout a kingdom and throughout a society. As such it provides us w...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Women

with trouble as he holds Desdemonas handkerchief. Bianca notes it and states: "O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

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...

Woman's Shelter Worker's Views on Marital Rape

violence and an increase in the number of reported "date" rapes has led to the need for a social and legal response to the issue o...

Sexuality and Women in Hebrew and Greek Cultures

This paper discusses women's sexuality in these cultures in a comparative analysis of Robert Francoeur's The Religious Suppression...

Junichi Saga's Memories of Silk and Straw A Self-Portrait of Small Town Japan

as men. It seems, especially after reading the stories in Memories of Silk And Straw, that the class distinction and level of pov...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Women and the Impact of the Media

Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Family and The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

own time. It was that goal of establishing principles that formed his viewpoint regarding the character of a person and how a pers...

Literature Portrayal of Extreme Experience

and to bear up under the influence of extended stress. This aspect of extreme experience can be seen in many ways in the three sel...

American Literature's Portrayal of Immigrant Families

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way immigrant families are presented in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marsh...