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Classical Greek Polis and Women

In five pages this paper discusses the Greek polis, gender ideals, and changes that led to the Hellenistic era as described by a b...

Feminist Literature's Portrayal of Prejudice and Oppression

observance of her passage past his house. Anne knows that she does not look like she fits in, and black person in a white suburb o...

Ancient Greece and Changing Attitudes Regarding Virtue

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

Contemporary Workplace and the Importance of Equity and Gender Issues

have broken through the gender barriers from a century ago is indicative of the still stringent attitude society takes in relation...

Epic of Gilgamesh and its Gendered Text

In 5 pages this epic is discussed in terms of the gender roles that the divine and mortal characters embody and the lack of female...

Rites of Male Passage in the Americas

In five pages this paper discusses how masculinity is conceptualized by the Americas in terms of gender interaction and in contras...

Self Reliance and Gender Considerations

In five pages this paper assesses whether or not self reliance can be regarded as a characteristic that is gender linked. Three s...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Gender

In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Middle Ages and Social Structure of Europe

were class differences within the study group as well. Poor widows as well as widows of wealthy London merchants were assessed alo...

Gender Issues in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...

Male Culture and Gender Prejudice

editors of major print media, presidents of television networks and so on are men. Furthermore, the media propagates the stereotyp...

Antigone by Sophocles

In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...

The Stronger by August Strindberg

man she had been involved with was none other than Mrs. Xs husband. It is not at all a unique plot line, but the fact that this on...

Science Fiction and Gender

In eight pages this paper examines how gender influences science fiction tastes in terms of male and female preferences with a dis...

Social Discrimination in Hardy and Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Canadian Women's Legal and Economic Status

In five pages this paper discusses Canadian women in a consideration of their legal and ethnic status and also relates changes in ...

Rosa Lee by Leon Dash

In five pages this paper discusses this sociology text in a consideration of the author's featured case study that considers how c...

Gender and the Death Penalty

In a paper that contains seven pages the capital punishment issue are examined in terms of gender differences with a consideration...

Females in William Shakespeare Plays Queen Margaret and Lady Percy

In eleven pages Queen Margaret in William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Lady Percy in Shakespeare's historical play Henry IV...

Antigone by Sophocles, Male and Female Power

In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

Hiring Practices and Gender Prejudice

not hold these prejudices, it appears that they do. Reverse stereotyping is prevalent in the workplace today. In order to underst...

Susan Bordo, Paulo Freire, and Making Social and Educational Connections

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the 'Hunger as Ideology' essay by Susan Bordo with 'The Banking Concept of Educati...

Schools and Gender Bias

the boys can get in there and do their work" (2). The authors ask the reader to imagine how discriminatory it might seem if the te...

Elementary School Student and Self Esteem

In ten pages this paper examines a young child's self esteem in a consideration of Chinese children's age and gender differences, ...

Feminist View on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Science

In seven pages this paper considers science as presented in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from a feminist perspective that includes...

Connection Between Gender Role Expectations and the Media

In 5 pages this paper examines how the media influences social expectations regarding gender roles. There are 4 sources cited in ...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

Primary Themes in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The themes of gender as a social construct, friendship, and love are examined in this analysis of Twelfth Night by William Shakesp...