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Women and Abortion, 2006.
A review of women and abortion, as an introduction to women and American politics.
933 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper takes a look at how the US legislature has been dominated historically by males. The paper then goes on to discuss the issue of women and abortion, reviewing the famous case of Roe vs Wade. The paper concludes with the opinion that the US government is sexist when it comes to the issue of abortion.
From the Paper
"The National Organization for Women (NOW) has a "historical highlight" page on their Web site that gives the dates of important legal watermarks relating to abortion rights and to those who oppose abortions ("pro-life" groups). In 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court nullified a Connecticut statute prohibiting married couples from using birth control pills; not many people today are aware that it was actually illegal in some states for a woman to use birth control - again, we see a sexist situation coming in to play, where men in three-piece suits in state government were deciding what women could do with their bodies and what they could not do with their bodies. The Court ruled that the "right to marital privacy" allows married couples to use contraceptives if they wish to."
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The Feminist Theme, 2007.
An analysis of the feminist theme in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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The paper examines Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." The paper analyzes and compares the feminine characters, Georgiana and Emily. The paper then discusses how the feminist theme in both stories connects these different personalities. The paper illustrates how the victimization of women at the hands of men is the common thread that ties both stories and helps us in studying the characters and their psyche.
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""The Birthmark" is essentially a love story with a strong feminist streak. The only similarity that we can find in these two works comes from this feminist theme. On the surface "Birthmark" talks about obsession of a man with everything the world can offer. This is an interesting concept since the obsession is directly connected with chauvinistic desire to control a woman. In "The rose for Emily," the same feminist theme occurs in the form of Emily's father's desire to create a lady out of his daughter. Hawthorne and Faulkner's women are, however, different."
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Karen Horney, 2007.
A look at the life and psychological theories of Karen Horney.
2,781 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 12 sources, MLA, £ 59.95
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The paper discusses how Karen Horney was a leading reformer and theorist in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis and one of the first major proponents of feminine psychology. The paper looks at Horney's personal life and how she served as an inspiration to women psychologists everywhere. The paper explains that in recognizing that women had dreams of self-actualization, just like men, Karen Horney showed the world that women could also achieve and be fulfilled. The paper also discusses how her work has not received the full attention it deserves.
Outline:
Introduction
Birth and Early Childhood
Adolescence and Awakening
Student of Psychology
The Acceptance of Self-Actualization
Critiques of Horney's Ideas
Karen Horney and Women Psychologists
Summary
Conclusion
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"Karen Horney was born Karen Clementine Theodore Danielsen on September 15, 1885 in a suburb of Hamburg, Germany. As befits a child who would one day devote her adult life to understanding some of the universal themes of humanity, Horney's parents were of varied background. Her father was a Norwegian sea captain, a widower with four teenaged children of his own, and naturalized citizen of the German Empire. His second wife, and Karen's mother, was a woman of Dutch-German noble extraction (O'Connell & Russo, 1990, p. 184). Her fifty-year-old father, and thirty-two-year-old mother had already had one child together, Karen's brother, Berndt - this child would remain their favorite (O'Connell & Russo, 1990, p. 184)."
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Save Title XI!, 2007.
This paper discusses the legacy of US legislative amendment Title XI, focusing on its effects upon the participation of women in sports.
875 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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In this article the writer points out that when the anti-discriminatory legislative amendment known as Title XI was passed in 1972, many Americans laughed at the idea of women participating in competitive sports at all, much less female sports competing for an equal level of spectator attention and funding at institutions of higher learning. This paper looks at the legacy of Title XI, as today, powerful and positive images of female sports stars such as Venus Williams adorn the covers of magazines, and women everywhere run in marathons, take their daughters to soccer leagues or participate in such leagues themselves, and simply enjoy the delights of hard, physical competitive effort. The writer argues that Title IX must continue to mandate equal funding as without equal funding it will be too easy for colleges and high schools to go back to the old traditions of supporting male sports disproportionately, in comparison to supporting female activities.
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"Encouraging women to participate in athletics is not merely an issue of equality in school, or about building champion athletes who can win college championships. It is also an issue of health. As America becomes increasingly concerned about the inactivity of its citizens, encouraging a group of people such as women who have been historically discouraged from being physically active is vital for the well-being of the entire nation. Also, when people compete in athletics, they experience a positive uplift in their sense of self-esteem as well as their physical prowess. Women must see other women, like themselves, participating in sports, rather than simply see images of themselves as spectators on the sidelines to gain this sense of positive esteem."
"Critics of Title XI argue that by requiring institutions of higher learning to provide equal funding and equal opportunities for men and women is not valid, because there is less public interest, amongst both men and women, in collegiate sports."
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Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart, 2006.
This paper discusses the fallacy of tribal life as relating to women and outcasts in Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart".
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper explains that, in Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart", the cultural traditions of the Umoufia tribe are a representation of human social groups, which date back four thousand years to ancient Mesopotamia. The author points out that a recurring theme in the novel is the use of violence as a means of control over the weaker members of Umoufia society, especially women. The paper relates that this novel describes the customs, traditions and rituals of the tribe used to place woman in the roles of property, spectator, slave and concubine.
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"The next paragraph revels that Oknokwo was now satisfied, and able to move on, what of course is lacking is the effect this beating had on the victim and her daughter. Through the reading, we know the mind of the men, and perhaps Achebe would not assume to understand the female point of view and thus leaves it out. This omission of female perspective leaves the issue shrouded in mystery and custom, which appears to be the way Achebe wants it to remain. "
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Short Stories of Human Ignorance, 2006.
A comparison between "The Yellow Wallpaper" by C. P. Gilman and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by G. G. Marquez.
1,097 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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A discussion regarding the theme of uncivilized behavior due to human ignorance, in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. According to the paper, in analyzing these short stories we are confronted with two unexplored possibilities in life, as interpreted by the authors and personified by their stories' protagonists.
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"As a woman struggling to free and define herself from society's oppressive nature against women, the female protagonist raises many issues which symbolically represents her oppression. Among these issues is the fact that she cannot work because of her condition: "...am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again...Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good." These lines of thought from the protagonist reflect the woman's disagreement on he husband's belief that she needs rest. As a housewife confined mostly at home, the woman yearned to develop herself, to function as an able individual not just in her home but in her society as well. Thus, work became a symbolic manifestation of the woman's yearning for freedom: freedom from the oppressive label of being a housewife, and freedom from being limited and dictated what she needs to do and not do."
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Antebellum Southern Plantation Household, 2006.
A discussion regarding patriarchy and women in the Antebellum southern plantation household.
1,179 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the role of plantation wives and black slave women in the Antebellum south and examines various literary works written on this subject. The paper concludes by saying that the 1850s saw the end of slavery and Southern women produced novels describing plantation life in idyllic terms, obliquely responding to the abolitionists' critique of slave law.
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"Despite the available sexual buffet the white male plantation owners have with their wives and female slaves, the "grin-and-bear-it" attitude of the plantation wives continues since outside the home abode the oldest profession was available to satisfy the variety needs of the alpha male. In Delfino and Gillespie Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South (2002), they acknowledged that there were "women who were 'unacknowledged professionals,' focusing on three lines of work that were open to women in the antebellum South. Two of these, at least, were viable options for women long before the market revolution: prostitution and convent life. E. Susan Barber argues that earlier historians, beholden to cultural narratives that denied interracial sex and exalted the sexual purity of white women, largely ignored the evidence of sexual commerce in the antebellum South. As she reveals in her exhaustive analysis of census records from Richmond, prostitution thrived in the city and could be particularly lucrative for women who owned brothels. (Delfino and Gillespie, 2002)" This clearly points out the supreme dominance of men in the area of sexual prowess because the availability of prostitution catered not only to the working man but all men in the strata of the society. "
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Social Class and Work, 2007.
An analysis of America's workers and their work lives as portrayed in "Working" by Stud Terkel.
2,309 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper examines Stud Terkel's book, "Working," which discusses the lives of American workers, the work that they do and their work's repercussions in their personal lives. The paper delves into the participation of women in the labor force and it also focuses on the workers' group in general and how they find ways in which to give invaluable meaning to their work by viewing their work as a contribution to their society.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Women in the Labor Force
Producing Something: Workers Making Sense of their Work Lives
Summary: Disenfranchisement of Specific Sectors in American Society
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"These passages from workers in America highlights the responses disenfranchised workers have adopted in order to alleviate or escape the state of marginalization they feel within the society. The first response is to "make sense" of their reality as a worker, justifying their worth not through quantitative, but through qualitative means, on how they have produced work that is considered important or valuable to American society. However, a more radical response adopted by most workers today is the path towards self-realization and -acceptance, using reality as their way of alleviating their disenfranchisement. That is, by accepting that they are parts of the whole economic machinery of capitalist America, they are able to perceive their work and themselves (as workers) as parts of a whole, but not necessarily "romanticizing" this notion as equivalent to 'contributing something important to society.'"
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Feminism in Politics, 2006.
A review of the role of feminism in politics and political science.
1,458 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper discusses the major feminist critiques of mainstream political science and the contributions feminism has made to the study of political participation. The paper further attempts to provide an understanding and appreciation of the sphere of influence of feminism on politics.
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Abstract
Feminist Critiques of Mainstream Political Science
Feminist Contributions to the Study of Political Participation
Feminism's Effect on the Study of Political Participation
Conclusion
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"On a strategic level, the advancement of women into the halls of higher learning institutions contributed to political studies from both sides of the classroom in a sense. Female students, now empowered by a clearer sense of political identity and their role in the feminist movement, began to challenge the course content which usually portrayed men as superior in intelligence, nerve, and political ability, thereby making them politically superior to women. Female students also fought for the right to have access to the same educational institutions and resources as their male counterparts (Ali, 2000). Eventually, having earned degrees of higher learning as well as political power, feminists rose to the role of instructor in many educational settings, giving them a pulpit from which to share the practical realities and advantages of feminist thought and practice."
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Families in the New Millennium, 2007.
This paper explores the changing nature, shape and form of the modern family.
2,629 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 21 sources, MLA, £ 56.95
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The paper discusses some of the most pertinent and important issues relating to the modern family. The paper illustrates how many of the forces and factors that shape modern society are seen at play within the social dynamic of the family. The paper looks at predictions about the future of the family. The paper also considers the difference between families in developed and less developed regions of the world. The paper concludes that the future will bring alternative styles of the family and possibly even the eventual demise of the traditional and nuclear family structures.
Outline:
Brief Overview and History
Theoretical Perspectives
Beyond the Nuclear Family
Conclusion
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"There is little doubt that the nature, shape and form of the modern family has changed and is still changing in new and radical ways. The family has in the last few hundred years changed from the traditional and extended structure to the nuclear family unit and into various permutations and variations in the postmodern world."
"There are also many theorists and researchers who have already announced the end or demise of the family as a relevant structure in contemporary society. Others on the other hand assert that in the spite of compromises and experimentation, there has been resurgence among many cultures towards the maintenance of the family as a viable and essential part of the social and cultural matrix."
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Marie de France's "Lanval" and "Bisclavet", 2007.
This paper discusses the lais "Lanval" and "Bisclavet" by Marie de France, which speak about marriage.
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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This paper explains that many of the lais of Marie de France seem like fairy tales because of their use of supernatural symbolism and metaphor; however, the narrative poems of "Lanval" and "Bisclavet" contain profound revelations of the tensions inherent to the marital bond. The author points out that, in "Lanval", tension-laden cultural concepts are expressed through the symbolic metaphor of invisibility of the title protagonist's wife. The paper relates that the tension between the public and private aspects of marriage is underlined in the lai "Bisclavet", the tale of a werewolf.
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"Of course, it might be argued that Lanval's fairy situation is fairly unique. Yet, the supernatural metaphor of invisibility parallels in some ways his original starting societal position at the beginning of the tale. Lanval is known to be the son of a "wealthy king," but he has spent his father's money already, which creates a dissonance between his perceived social state and the reality. Lanval is also a relative stranger to the court, hence the references to him dwelling in a hotel. Thus, he cuts a particularly suspect figure."
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Bram Stoker's "Dracula", 2007.
A review of Bram Stoker's classic Victorian novel "Dracula", with a focus on its depiction of women.
970 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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This paper examines how, in Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Dracula represents evil and how underlying this evil are the mores of Victorian England, which created stereotypes for women that centered on purity, motherhood and a lack of choice in their sexuality and the rest of their lives. It points out that this novel is often seen as an analogy of the two distinct roles of women in the Victorian society---the mother-wife and the whore. The paper concludes that this novel may be a classic horror tale but reading it from a woman's point of view it is even more frightening.
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"Stoker introduces the two women, Mina and Lucy, as chaste and good ladies who hold a decent place in society. Mina is a working class schoolmistress, while Lucy is an upper-class lady of leisure. The most either can hope for in their lives is to marry and become respectable wives and mothers. Lucy writes to Mina, "You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity." Thus, Lucy writes what most women felt in Victorian times. Their only goal was to remain true (pure) to one man, raise children, and be seen but rarely heard."
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"Why Marriages Fail", 2007.
An analysis of Anne Roiphe's essay "Why marriages Fail" and the the relationship of the couples in the movie "Notting Hill".
891 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper presents a case study of the couple in the film "Notting Hill", William and Anna, and attempts to analyze whether they will have a successful marriage. The paper focuses on Anne Roiphe's essay "Why marriages Fail" and provides a contextual analysis of the couples in the movie "Notting Hill," directed by Roger Michell, to provide a better insight into the intricacies involved in relationships.
Table of Contents:
Thesis
Introduction
Conclusion
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"Most relationships tend to burn out after the initial few months when the attractions that blinded them quickly fades out. In any relationship there would be frictions and problem situations that arise out of nowhere. As Roiphe says the over dependency for intimacy and care on the part of one of the partners may weigh too much on the other partner. For relationships to succeed couples must strike a balance between closeness and individuality. This is only possible if the partners exhibit understanding and are willing to show some sacrifice. William's character shows composure, integrity and commitment. Anna, for her part, though a little quick to react and less composed, (as most famous people are) is still a sensitive woman who respects others feelings and who is in search of true love. Watching the movie one gets the feeling that Anna and William love each other truly and complement each other nicely, and so the relationship should withstand the test of time."
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African American Women, 2006.
A discussion regarding oppression, diversity and the struggle for human rights of African American women.
2,089 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper takes a look at how the history of African American women is closely aligned to the history of social and racial oppression in America. The paper discusses how the history of this group is linked strongly to the development of the movement in this country against inequality and for civil rights. The paper further discusses how the history of African American women is also intimately bound up with the history and after effects of slavery.
Outline:
Introduction
Aspects of Culture and Tradition
Social Work Aspects
Further Research and Resources
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"Among the many other social and health issues that characterize this group are drug and alcohol abuse and dependency. Studies have found that there is a relatively high rate of drug and alcohol abuse among African American, which can be ascribed to factors such as feelings of oppression and social discrimination. (Washington & Moxley, 2003, p.146) As one study clearly states, among the factors that influence drug and alcohol use in this group are"...sociodemographic status, race and ethnicity, interpersonal relationships, and life events....(Lucas, Goldschmidt & Day, 2003, p. 273) Studies also reiterate these points with regard to prenatal alcohol abuse. " Ethnicity and race have been identified as significant correlates of prenatal alcohol use. One study found that that "...African American women were more likely to continue to drink throughout pregnancy than were white women." (Lucas, Goldschmidt & Day, 2003, p. 273)"
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