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Women in Society and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale

Ulrichs works is primarily filled with Martha Ballards diary of her work. Her work is presented in a very unemotional and very str...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

Patriarchy Shackled Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...

Hannah Foster's The Coquette

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

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Patriarchal Society and Violence Directed Towards Women

is an unacceptably high level of violence against women due the social structure though a patriarchal system, in the legislature a...

Women as Perceived by Niccolo Machiavelli

In ten pages this paper examines how Machiavelli perceived women and how they are perceived by past and present society. Nine sou...

The Caribbean Influence of African Women

In five pages the influence of African women in the Caribbean in terms of economics, politics, and society are discussed. There a...

Females as Morality Agents

In six pages this paper discusses the morality of women and how females have throughout the history of patriarchal society served ...

First American Woman Elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming

did. In order to prove his point he actually brought Fleming into the lab, and later hired her in a clerical capacity. In 1881, m...

British Society, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and Single Women

In five pages this paper examines British society of Jane Austen's time and what her novel reveals about single women and how they...

An Early Religious Movement

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen

This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

Literary Women in Ancient Rome and in the 20th Century

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

A Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

Koran, Bible on Women

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

Women: The Other

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

Women in Today’s Society

groups and from culture which would clearly alter who or what women and men were/are. One author notes elements of this be...

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...

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 ...

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 ...