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Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

Women's Oppression in the Old Testament and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Society's Standards of Beauty in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

Gender Roles and Society

women have taken on more responsibility. There are many reasons for this lack of change on the part of the male species. For on...

Feminine Fashion

cross-dressing as a theme in respect to art and criticism represents, an undertheorized recognition of the need for this type of t...

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

Women's Power Women's Passion by Patricia L. Hunter

humankind, then all women, regardless of ethnicity, class, varying abilities, or sexual orientation, are a part of Gods very good ...

Young Women and Advertising

titled "The body impolitic: fashion and its critics sell the same stereotypes" and is written by John Leland (1996). In this artic...

Positions of Women in Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations

exercise, even participating with men at times, indicating that there was not a great deal of difference in the way the men and wo...

2 Professorial Views on Women and the Issue of Rape

have been planned. She asserts that that patriarchy is the theory and rape is the practice. Renee Heberle (1996), a politi...

Society of Ancient Greece and Women

This paper examines how women in Ancient Greek society were portrayed in a comparative analysis of the plays Lysistrata by Aristop...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Ancient Societies and Women in Sundiata and 'Beowulf'

himself was portrayed as the incarnate of evil, whose ravenous attacks on King Hrothgars subjects were nothing more than examples ...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Women

of development and which necessitated the imposition of one husband on the woman, whereas a man was left free to have several wive...

Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

Randy Albeda and Chris Tilly's Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits Women's Work, Women's Poverty

blight on one of the strongest and wealthiest nations on Earth. The problems associated with poverty are tremendously complex and...

Hannah Foster's The Coquette

Eliza was unable to decide between her two suitors, the attractive but...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

Women in Labor and Pain Control's Cultural Aspects

pain and also in how nurses from various cultures perceive the pain of their patients. As this suggests, Weber (1996) provides a c...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

Female Protagonist Effectivenss in Oranges Are Not Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson and Beloved by Toni Morrison

from secondary characters to protagonists who were considered universal or genderless to those who were females yet were strong an...

Women's Roles As Seen by Woolf and Conrad

size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...

Marital Emptiness and 'The Empty Nest Syndrome'

find out which empty nester experiences the least amount of stress and the most satisfying transition. It is hoped that the result...

Research Results on Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer

Research Report, 2002). Figure 1; Respondents Age Group Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Age...