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The System of Trokosi

by a spokesman for the fetish priests, Togbe Atsu Eklo of the Adzimashi shrine, which appealed to the gods and their ancestors to ...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comparative Analysis of Ancient Greek Women and Contemporary Culture

This paper examines the limitations which continue to exist in terms of women's roles in ancient Greek society and in the present ...

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Pagan and Jewish Women

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...

Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Conventionality and Freedom

This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...

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...

Body Image, Self Esteem and the Fashion Industry

In ten pages this research paper examines the influences of the fashion industry on the self esteem and body image of girls and wo...

Marriage and Women in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In three pages this paper discusses how Nora and Torwald represent women's status in society and in marriage. There is no bibliog...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...

Cultural Diversity and Commitments to Increased Awareness

In a paper consisting of eight pages a woman's efforts to increase cultural diversity awareness on organizational, personal, and i...

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...

U.S. Culture and Society as Determined by Women's Economic Role

of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...

History of American Women

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

What Being a Writer Means in Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...

Antebellum South's Women Slaves

Being put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty 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 ...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Maria Luisa Bombal's Works Compared

her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, ...

Ancient Greece and Women's Roles

Artemis, and her hair was cut. For the next several months the bride was taught the domestic duties she would perform for the rest...

Society and Women's Place According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

Islamic Women

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

Trafficking of Women Yesterday and Today

gain. There are a variety of factors which impact trafficking and an understanding of a few of them will highlight the point that...

Women's Roles in India and China

have come from and where they are going. There is bound to be more change in the future for these women as barriers continue to b...

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

Fictitious Oral Interview with a Second World War Wife

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko

them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...

Explication of a Passage in "The Scarlet Letter"

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

Effects of Exercise during Pregnancy

1993, p. 44). This means exactly what it says: the woman has to be able to exercise and talk at the same time without feeling shor...