How Societal and Cultural Influences Impact Gender Roles:
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This 5 page paper discusses how both society and culture influence gender roles. Specifically, this paper examines "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemmingway as means of providing insight into this matter in terms of how these stories address gender roles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How the Anti-Slavery Movement Contributed to the Women's Rights Movement:
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This 4 page paper examines pertinent writings from the late 1800's to understand the relationship between the anti-slavery movement and the women's rights movement. This paper asserts that each helped the other succeed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: GSAntisl.rtf

How Women Are Perceived According To The Kaballah And Jewish Mysticism
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30 pages in length. Women and religion have shared a long yet challenging relationship throughout the ages. Not unlike virtually all other global religions, Jewish women have experienced the oppressive nature of a patriarchal society wherein the decidedly male overtones of daily life served to construct her very being. Kaballah and Jewish mysticism, however, afforded women a bit more recognition as far as gender respect and contribution was concerned, focusing upon the value of women within the home atmosphere and the extent to which they were instrumental in nurturing the children within the context of Judaism. Bibliography lists 26 sources.
Filename: TLCKaballah.rtf

Hunger as a Metaphor /Sexual Desire
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A 6 page research paper that examines food and hunger as cultural metaphors. Food is a basic need. It fulfills the biological requirements of hunger, but it fulfills broader cultural goals as signified by the numerous metaphors that surround its use. Susan Bordo, in her essay "Hunger as Ideology," addresses the numerous metaphors that employed for hunger in American society, particularly in regards to advertising. A pivotal point in Bordo's discussion is how hunger and food are frequently featured in advertising and culture as terms that are synonymous with sexual desire, particularly in regards to women. This examination of this metaphorical relationship between sex, desire, food and femininity demonstrates that the extent to which this metaphor describes a cultural perception, but it also demonstrates the limits of this metaphor in regards to the manner in which it overlays the deeper context of society's fears about female sexuality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Hypothetical Interview with Arab American Woman
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A 3 page research paper/essay that offers a student a guide for reporting on an interview with a woman who has a background different from that of the student. The information in this interview is fictionalized and drawn from 2 sources, which are listed in the bibliography. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khhypaaw.rtf

Ibsen & Gilman/Women's Place in Society
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A 7 page essay that contrasts and compares the narratives of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer argues that these works portray the subjugated position of women under nineteenth century patriarchy, and that a close reading of these works reveals not only that the female protagonist in each work feels compelled to rebel against the social restrictions that circumscribe their lives, but that the patriarchal framework of society serves, in general, to keep husbands and wives alienated from one another, preventing the true intimacy that is the bedrock of a successful marriage. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khibsgil.rtf

Ibsen Meets Euripides (Nora and Medea)
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(5 pp). Remember some old saying that you heard as a kid: The more things change, the more they stay the same. As a kid the phrase did not make a lot of sense, and by the time you were an adult, you did not want it to be true, let alone make sense. There is that same thread of commonality in both of the female "heroes," in this discussion: society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have minds of their own. Bibliography lists 2 sources)
Filename: BBibsneu.doc

Identifying Coping Strategies In Female Inmates With A History Of Domestic Violence
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11 pages in length. One might readily surmise that female inmates with a history of domestic violence have a significantly more difficult time coping within the prison setting than their convict counterparts due to the patriarchal oppressive structure they have typically experienced. In order to meet the needs of this particular population women, it is important to tap into the vast psychological issues that are inherently associated with domestic violence. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: TLCcope.wps

Identity Formation for Girls
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A 3 page essay on 3 narratives. There is a bond between mothers and daughters that is typically more intense throughout the lifespan. Early in life, boys differentiate themselves from identification with their mothers and turn to their fathers for an adult male role model, but a daughter's focus remains with her mother and the maternal bond never slackens but tends to intensify. Therefore, the processes involved in identity formation for girls are intimately connected to their relationships with their mothers. This factor is evident in three contemporary perspectives, which present narratives of female identity formation. In particular, in Isabel Allende's short story, "Wicked Girl," Louise Erdich's novel The Antelope Wife, and in the film "Real Women Have Curves," the narrative focuses on how differences between the generations complicate this process in young girls/women. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khidfem.rtf

Identity: Sexuality, Race, and Class
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A 9 page paper which examines sexuality as an underlying facture of stereotypes and gender identity, and how race and class figure into identity models. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAsxid.rtf

Illuminating Sympathy in Middlemarch
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We form intimacy with characters because we recognize the characters feelings and responses in ourselves. Middlemarch begins with the idealism of youth – that common search for good, the desire to be heralded for creating good in the lives of others around us, creating our sympathetic entry into the story. Dorothea, how she interacts with her other cast members and lives life, exemplifies what is sympathetic in Middlemarch.... Bibliography lists 2 sources. jvMidlmr.rtf
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Importance of Women's Voices
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An 8 page research paper that examines various aspects of "women's studies" and argues their importance and relevance. The writer argues that patriarchal structures of power are still entrenched and women's experience in much of the world remains that of a second class citizen. An examination of the feminist theory and literature demonstrates the importance of the topic known as "women's studies" and why the issue of gender equality is far from resolved. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Influence of Women in American History
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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses how American women in different periods of the country’s history have challenged their prescribed subservient status and used their power and/or influence to affect society in significant ways. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khinfwom.rtf

Influences on Social Life/Gender & Race
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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses which factor is more influential on social life, race or gender? The writer argues that excellent arguments can be made for both positions, but that, ultimately, an overall consideration of gender and race tends to favor gender as being predominant, as this aspect of humane experience tends to control the way in which we interact within society's most fundamental unit--the family. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Interview: Alice From Nigeria
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A 3 page paper which presents a hypothetical interview with a woman named Alice from Nigeria. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Is Housework Drudgery?
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This 5 page paper examines the idea and uses an essay by Simone De Beauvoir as a springboard for discussion. Various issues are included. The paper argues that housework is really not that bad and the role of the housewife is desirable in the twenty-first century. No bibliography.
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Is Technology Gendered?
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This 3 page paper considers the way in which technology is gendered with women failing to gain the same benefits and job opportunities as mean. The paper examined how and why this is the case. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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