Essays and Research Papers on Gender & Society

This 8 page paper discusses the perspective of filmmakers analyzed with a feminist eye. Various movies throughout history are examined for social commentary about women and their roles. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines the history of women’s rights in the military. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page research paper that examines Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, which focuses on the stories of three women who each face enormous struggles against sexism and societal preconceptions of gender. In so doing, his novel is rather like a thumbnail sketch of the history of feminism in the twentieth century. Therefore, ...

This 7 page paper evaluates the history of poverty in America as it respects women. Solutions to poverty are explored. The paper argues for a moderate resolution to the problem. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page review of the multifaceted nature of feminism. This diversity is emphasized by a number of writers, one of the more notable of which is Estelle Freedman. Freedman's "No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women" is complimented by an exploration of a number of other authors and viewpoints. Rosemarie ...

A 5 page examination of author Helen Birch' suggestion that: "The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing...". The author of this paper contends that while that has been the case throughout history, feminist criminology is slowly fashioning such a language. Bibliography ...

This 5 page paper examined how the role and status of women changed over time in modern German history between the Kaiserreich though the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the developments in West Germany and East Germany. The paper includes discussion on what factors lead to these changes. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

A 3 page review of Rosenberg’s extensive review of women’s plight in the twentieth century. Rosenberg relates this plight to the complexity of factors which have served to keep women subdued throughout history. Not only are women’s lives divided between their relationships with men in their world, however, they are also divided between ...

A fourteen page paper which looks at the ways in which the role of women in society has changed over the past twenty years in various European countries, in terms of educational and employment opportunities and the social and cultural perception of women in general. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

An 8 page overview of the issues involved in the incarceration of female inmates. This paper reviews the history of female incarceration to note similarities in the past and the present in regard to the current move to incarcerating male and female inmates in the same facility. The author insists that this approach is ...

A 4 page discussion of the importance of women’s roles in this interesting time in world history. The author asserts that Woodrow Wilson’s contention that World War I was a war to ensure democracy simply did not pan out either domestically or internationally. Instead the world was left tremendously unstable, an instability which ...

This 45 page paper is chock full of statistics and information about Japanese women and work in Japan. Much attention is devoted to Japanese culture and how women are treated in Japan in general. History is included and an economic view is taken in respect to the business world in the country. ...

5 pages in length. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, violent crime continues to plague a so-called civilized global society. One of the most prominent types of violent crime throughout the world – domestic violence – has come center stage over the past several years, with a significant amount of attention paid ...

5 pages in length. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, violent crime continues to plague a so-called civilized global society. One of the most prominent types of violent crime throughout the world – domestic violence – has come center stage over the past several years, with a significant amount of attention paid ...

This 14 page paper considers the argument that "In using law's terms in order to challenge law, feminism always concedes too much". The paper considers this in connection to jurisprudence, with the discussion including different forms of feminist theory and the way in which they may influence the study and practice of jurisprudence. The ...

This 5 page research paper examines Jewish and Islamic law relative to customs pertaining to covering women's hair and customs pertaining to menstruation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 10 page paper looks at a variety of changes experienced by the people of Victorian England. The effects of the industrial revolution on women's roles as well as the changing status of the church are included. Marital law changes are addressed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

The first (9 pages) discusses the number of and restrictions against women in law in Australia, where women lawyers earn less than their male counterparts and are much less likely to become firm partners than men, even though 59 percent of Australia's current law graduates are women. The remainder of the paper discusses the ...

A 5 page review of Frances Heidensohn’s book “Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.

A 4 page paper that examines the changing role of the female gender since the implementation of the sex discrimination laws and protection of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Discussed are the dual role identities faced by women of the 1970s and 1980s as well as the achievements gained in the 1990s. ...

This 9 page paper discusses Title IX and the controversy that has existed since the law was passed in 1972. The three components for compliance are explained. Since it has been 30 years since Title IX was passed, one might think that every institution of higher education is now compliant but that is not the ...

4 pages in length. Developing opportunities have become a major social challenge for corporations. Barriers to women's equal participations in the work place are yielding to the forces of economic change, greater need for skilled people in all categories, the demands of women to be treated equally and the presence of equal opportunity ...

5 pages in length. The notoriety of Ally McBeal is not that surprising if one considers the standard elements of contemporary popular culture that it depicts. Indeed, the extent to which this particular program highlights such cultural values as capitalism and individualism, while at the same time devaluing certain ways of being, lends ...

A 10-page paper outlining the changes that have occurred as Indians move to the United States and raise children in America; how the traditional attitudes toward arranged marriages are changing and evolving, while not being abandoned altogether. Lists 10 sources.

A 7 page essay that discusses this Shakespearean work from a feminist perspective. Shakespeare's Elizabethan era was characterized by an "oppressive patriarchal culture," yet within this society, there are existed contradictions, "pressure point," so to speak, where there were "opportunities for resistance" (Findlay 7). This is the theoretical position taken by Alison Findlay in her ...