Essays and Research Papers on Feminists & Activists

This is a 5 page paper discussing Rigoberta Menchu’s expanding understanding of “community”. Rigoberta Menchu, a Mayan born in poverty in Guatemala, probably did not intend to become an international spokesperson for human rights and global community responsibility but living in the oppressed poor population of Guatemala and seeing her family members killed by the ...

A 5 page paper which examines women’s roles in work, focusing on WWII and Rosie the Riveter. The text used is “Born for Liberty” by Sara M. Evans. The videotape “The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is also mentioned. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.

A 5 page research paper that analyzes whether or not American society has become the "land of opportunity" for women. The writer accesses the success of the women's movement, listing its accomplishments, and concluding that it has been largely successful a. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 6 page paper which discusses the life of Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper examines the role of women in both China and India and determines how their role has changed in recent years. Furthermore, this paper discusses the Cultural Revolution in China as a turning point for those women. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper examines the 1950's era and the role of women. This paper reveals that many of these women inhabited domestic roles simply out of lack of other viable opportunity, and that much has changed for women since those post-war days. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This is a 5 page paper discussing different feminist theories on motherhood and the Goddess. Within feminist theories are different aspects regarding concepts of motherhood and the Goddess among other historical and cultural issues. Some feminists such as Sarah Ruddick see motherhood as an empowerment of women to gain a new perspective on the theories ...

This 6 page paper examines how women have been represented by a variety of creative talents: Virginia Woolfe, Franz Kafka, Charles Darwin, and Gustave Courbet. This paper compares and contrasts these various people in terms of how they portray women. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper considers the way that domestic violence is treated by the police and the underlying reasons for its’ lack of status as a serious crime. The bibliography cites 10 sources.

An 18 page paper which examines the feminist principles in the works of Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 20 page research paper about the feminist issue of violence toward women. The writer discusses the specific issues that feminist activism has addressed, the successes of the movement, and how feminist has affected public policy. Bibliography lists 31 sources.

This 19 page paper addresses the problem of rape and focuses on a typology of four different types of rapists. Psychological theories are the focus of this investigation that also looks at feminist theory. The motives behind the rapes is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 20 sources.

This 3 page paper gives an example of what the perfect wife of the 1950's was supposed to be like. Reasons why this assumption persisted are offered. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

An 8 page paper discussing this 16th century woman who lived as an abandoned wife in rural France, the choices available to her and the choices she made. Also included is a discussion of Francois Poullain de la Barre’s “The Equality of the Two Sexes,” published a century later, followed by speculation of how ...

This 17 page paper discusses the Women in Development program in depth. After WID is discussed, then the shift from WID to Gender and Development is exampled and discussed. Policies, strengths and weaknesses exampled. Bibliography lists 20 sources.

A 15 page discussion of how the practice of veiling has varied over time and culture. The author contends that the Islamic custom of veiling is irrelevant to the central issue of women’s rights. To concentrate on this practice only results in a distraction from the real problems of women’s access to education ...

A 3 page overview of the contentions presented by noted author Danielle Crittenden. Targeting an audience of women in their twenties, Crittenden analyzes the successes, failures, and shortcomings which she sees as characterizing the lives of her reader’s mothers, those women who stand at the height of the feminist movement of earlier generations, those ...

A 5 page review of the book by the noted author Dorothy Roberts. The author of this paper contends that in essence this book is an expose of the various lengths the American government has gone to to suppress black motherhood. An overview is provided of the various atrocities which have characterized white ...

This 4 page paper discusses Ursula LeGuin's "Sur", which is a book depicting the fictional account of a group of women who are the first to visit the Souh Pole. This paper explores the decidedly female issues which these women face, their personal motivations for embarking on the journey, and the surrounding societal pressures. ...

This is a 5 page paper discussing feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses various elements of feminism within her 19th century story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The main character in the tale remains a nameless narrator who is a woman who is restless, anxious and depressed about her domestic ...

This 3 page paper discusses the human rights violations toward women in the early 1900's in Brazil. Sueann's book, In Defense of Honor, is used to provide examples of the abuses. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This is an 18 page paper discussing reproductive rights as a human right. Reproductive rights represents a component of human rights as promoted by the international community in regards to the “right to health and family planning; the right to life, freedom, integrity and security; the right not to be assaulted or exploited sexually; the ...

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the feminist movement of the 1800s and the events that led up to giving women the right to vote. The passage of the nineteenth amendment is the focus of this paper that looks at nineteenth century feminist movements. Bibliography lists 2 ...

This 4 page paper discusses the views of Katherine Lumpkin in her autobiography: The Making of a Southerner. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This is a 4 page paper discussing the “desire to be free” as found in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Writers Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote about the oppression of women and the helplessness many women felt within marriage during the late 19th century. Both women wrote ...