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

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 ...

A 3 page overview of the article by Chimene Keitner’s. This article is supplemented with the observations of K.B. Turner and James B. Johnson’s “The Effects of Gender on Amount of Bail Set”. No additional sources are listed.

A 3 page paper which examines women as protestors during the Vietnam War. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines how Woolf sees women and whether Henrik Ibsen’s Nora, from A Doll’s House, would be a powerful and important woman in Woolf’s mind. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

15 pages in length. The writer discusses at length the extent to which Islamic women still cannot overcome centuries of gender oppression even in the twenty-first century. Bibliography lists 14 sources.

A 4 page essay that offers a student a guide to writing a "personal manifesto" on her life, which the writer describes in terms of her gender affects her life orientation. The writer does this within the context of discussing the student's relationship to feminism. Bibliography lists 1 source.

3 pages in length. Abboud Bey and Samia, Rifaat's two primary characters in the short story entitled Another Evening at the Club reflect the epitome of a married couple within a patriarchal society whereby the wife is oppressed and the husband is a self-serving patriarch. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

12 pages in length. Domestic violence is a gender-based abusive act prevalent in virtually all global communities; while the more developed societies have adopted a heightened awareness of the immoral nature of domestic violence and take significant steps to punish and deter it, other less developed societies continue to use it as a tool ...

This 3 page paper examines the ways in which women do business. Examples are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 7 page paper discusses some of the feminist thinking about Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the powerful impact of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper. No sources cited.

7 pages in length. Classified as "aggressive and difficult to treat" (Mayo Clinic, 2008), inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is different from what most people are familiar with in the form of symptoms and diagnosis. This more rapidly-forming type of breast cancer has moved up in prevalence over the years to the point where ...

A 5 page paper which traces the movement of the Grimke sisters from being Southern Belles to feminists as seen in Gerda Lerner’s work The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper critiques the film “Nine to Five” with regard to its portrayal of women (and men) in the workplace. Bibliography lists sources.

This 3 page paper provides a historical reference for the movement. Changing aspects in the world--the Industrial Revolution, the publication of the Communist Manifesto--are taken into consideration. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 10 page research paper/essay that closely examines Wharton’s protagonist in The House of Mirth, Lily Bart, and Plath’s heroine in The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood. The writer argues that there are sharp contrasts between these protagonists that suggest that Plath’s portrayal of Esther’s adaptation to the forces of society over which she has no ...

A 7 page research paper that discusses legislative efforts that have addressed race relations, poverty and gender social reform. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper as it relates to hysteria. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses human rights issues, then considers women’s rights more narrowly, and how the debate on this subject has changed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Mary Cassatt, who she was, why she’s important. It argues that she is a hero for her efforts to encourage artists and introducing Impressionism to the U.S. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper uses the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” as a “springboard” to consider the impact of fashion on young women, and why fashion is important. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 10 page research paper that examines literature, drawing from the writing of various feminist and ethnographic authors, offers various perspectives on the topic of sexually fidelity and then evaluates this information in light of a criteria that values reaching individual potential and the greatest degree of emotional satisfaction and personal happiness. Bibliography lists 6 ...

A 4 page overview of the contentions presented in Gloria Steinem’s “Marilyn Monroe: The Woman That Died Too Soon” and Jane Smiley’s “You Can Never Have Too Many”. No additional sources are listed.

This 4 page paper discusses the pros and cons of affirmative action. While we must guard against reverse discrimination, affirmative action is still very much needed in our modern world. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 5 page paper discusses the book “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement,” as well as tracing the progress women have made in holding elected office, and breaking into non-traditional jobs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.