Essays and Research Papers on Women's Studies (All)

This 6 page paper provides an overview of an article on the effects of water emersion (water birth) on labor. This paper is a research article review based on the article Water Immersion and the Effect on Labor, by Mavis Schorn, Janice McAllister, and Jorge Blanco, published in the November/December 1993 edition of the ...

This 5 page paper provides an overview of Wiccan traditions, including a view of how witchcraft has changed over the course of the last century. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the role of women in the industrial West. The role of women in the emerging industrial workforce at the end of the 19th century had a definitive impact on family values and perspectives on racism, ethnicity and changing demographics (including increasing urban gentrification). By the ...

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue of women's rights and the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

10 pages in length. Men are far from being the stronger sex - they are actually the opposite – a statement wholly supportable when one considers men's health in contemporary society, with particular attention being paid to the concept of masculinity. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 6 page paper examines several films, plays, short stories and so forth to provide support for the thesis that women are unfulfilled in marriage. Both life and literature is discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines the women’s suffrage movement in Canada from 1890 to 1918. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines how the female body image, and the perception of the female body, has changed through the years. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses recent data concerning women in America. Governmental statistics utilized in the report. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 4 page paper presents a Rogerian argument in favor of same-sex marriage. Furthermore, this paper examines both sides of the argument by presenting the major points of both sides. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 12-page paper focuses on the concept of women and urban environments. The concept of the paper follows the suggestion that today's housing environments aren't conducive to two-couple earnings because planning and development are still male-dominated issues. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

A 3 page paper assessing discrimination and legal factors of two vignettes involving sexual orientation in the workplace. The first is the problem created in the locker room when a male nurse has a sex-change operation; the other involves a lesbian passed over for promotion to a job for which she was qualified. ...

A 4 page paper which examines the work “Ar’n’t I a Woman” by Deborah Gray White. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper examines the qualities of suffragist Alice Paul in relation to the heroic journey cycle. These elements include: the call, the threshold, challenges and temptations, the abyss, the transformation, the revelation, the atonement and the return. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper discussing the course of change from women’s perspective over the years. It appears that advances for women in general are preceded with intense social change. It was not until the 1970s that women made noticeable and lasting advances in Australia, after the “women’s movement” had been operational for some ...

This 4 page report discusses Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple. The emotional, spiritual, and psychological growth of Celie is presented along with the fact that much of her development occurs because of her exposure to strong and courageous women. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A paper which looks at the theory that Jane Eyre begins as a realist novel and ends as a fairy tale, and concludes that this is not the case: Bronte conforms to the realist genre throughout the narrative. Bibliography lists 5 sources

This 3 page paper summarizes a NEw York Times article about granting asylum to immigrants who face extreme domestic abuse. Quotes and examples given. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper argues that there are positive effects of working motherhood on children as well as on the mothers themselves. Several factors are noted. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the working of affirmative action in the life of Colin Powell and discusses the continued need for affirmative action. Examples, quotes, given. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page research paper that examines the wage discrepancy between those earned by men as compared to the average wage for women. The writer discusses current statistics, the idea of wages for housework, and the wages for women factory workers in the nineteenth century. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

10 pages in length. The presence of domestic violence is a worldwide inhumanity that only recently has been worthy of closer consideration. Thanks in great part to the direction many developed countries have taken toward eradicating such cruel and unmitigated gender inequity, many global communities are taking steps to quell the indignity. ...

This 5 page paper argues that prostitution is inherently degrading to women. This paper provides a number of reasons in support of this position as well as referring to the philosophy of Kant as means of further explanation. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 12 page (9 pp. + 3 pp. annotated bibliography) paper which examines how far the text goes as a work of feminism, but since many people feel it is a political work, is it possible for the concepts of feminism and politics to coincide? Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A paper which looks at the future of women in the scientific community, with particular reference to feminist science and the cultural barriers which hinder women scientists from contributing fully to the field. Bibliography lists 7 sources