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Reviews of Literary Works by Kaschnitz, Robinson, and Cisneros

the conscience of humanity. The young people in the story relate to their bilingual/cultural context, cultural heritage and domin...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

Great Britain During the Victorian Age and the Roles of Women

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

1960s and 1970s' Women's Rights Movement

a kind of focus for the Feminist Movement that rejected the concept of femininity and the separation of men and women in the famil...

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,...

Juliet's Images in Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

Research Methodology on Women and the Glass Ceiling

the complexities of human behavior" (Greenhalgh 740). The researcher, being the prime instrument of data collection, is responsib...

Ancient Buddhism and Women's Roles

similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Social Worker Bargaining and Negotiation Methods

to sneak a dog into the hospital unless it is very small. Also, no staff member would allow it as they would put their job at risk...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Canada's 1890 to 1918 Women's Suffrage Movement

The region was comprised of mainly men, and most often young men who were less than perfect citizens. There was, according to many...

US and Rights for Women

a woman becomes pregnant she is urged to quit and stay home with her children, without little realization of what the loss of that...

Gender Inequality in 'The New Dress' by Virginia Woolf

that women are made to believe their worth is based solely upon their fashion sense. That women have been forced to prove their w...

Virginia Woolf, War, the Women's Movement, and Rhetoric

As Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associ...

Women's Lives and the Changing Roles of Child Care and Housework in More Than a Labour of Love by Meg Luxton

male figure of God, at which point ideals began to shift toward male superiority. Once the ideal developed, the belief that men w...

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...

Women Influenced by Shopping Malls

once in a while, car show of sorts or other male oriented type of presentation takes over the malls of America. One sees an array...

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 ...

Women and Buddhism

"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....

19th Century Women's Activist Susan B. Anthony

work of Susan B. Anthony and others like her the womens movement would be far more stagnated than it currently is. Anthonys...

Roles of Women in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

not take no for an answer when he still a respected man. For example, when Nwoyes mother asks whether or not Ikemefuna will be sta...

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...

Wallace Stevens' Poem 'The Idea of Order at Key West'

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Medea by Euripides

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

College and Issues Involving Women

issues that are more likely to effect women than men, but may not be constrained only to men. Issues such as family commitments an...

Women's Rights Movement and Contributions of the Antislavery Movement

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...