Essays and Research Papers on Gender & Society

6 pages in length. In a perfect world, all entities, every race and each person would be represented in the same fair light. However, this is not a perfect world, and people of various races, gender and origins are not given the same fair treatment as others routinely receive. Regardless of the ...

A 5 page paper which discusses the life and works of Mary Wollstonecraft, illustrating her profound influence on the women's rights movement. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 10 page paper looks at Machiavelli's life and works in order to arrive at a conclusion as to his view of women. How women are viewed in society, in a general sense, is discussed both in terms of contemporary times and medieval days. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

(5 pp) The creative imagination is like a genie that has escaped its bottle; once it is released, it will do any and everything to stay alive, even to the point of fantasy and self -destruction. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" illustrates that creative imagination cannot be stopped by oppression. ...

5 pages in length. Laura is a twenty-four-year-old Caucasian woman who is divorced with three young children. Her ex-husband Josh, who works in a mill in Josephine County, Oregon, has dutifully maintained his child support payments; however, Laura is very upset because it is not enough to support both her and her children. ...

Labels in any time period tend to fluctuate -we may call the Middle Ages that period of time from the twelfth century to the fifteenth century. An art historian would label these early, high and late Gothic, but for the sake of discussion we will use "Medieval," to encompass both. A large ...

10 pages in length. The contention can be made that violence against women is predominant and widespread across the Western Hemisphere due to tolerance and promotion inherent to North American social structure and social institutions. Through centuries of patriarchal control, coupled with distortion of the media and criminal justice system, North American women have ...

(11 pp). Unless you just arrived from an alien planet in the last twenty minutes there is little chance, that definition of gay or lesbian culture is without some framework in your life. Gone are the days when one could put there hand over their mouth, gasp in horror, --"well I certainly don't ...

A paper which looks at the way in which Chicana feminism deals with the issues of gender inequality, both in Mexican culture and in society as a whole, and considers the other issues such as racial discrimination which they have had to face in their struggle to achieve equal cultural recognition in a multi-ethnic society.

This 5 page report discusses Sommers’ 2000 book that asserts that believes it is a bad time to be a boy in America. Sommers makes the points that boys are less likely to enroll in college than girls. They do their homework less often and they cheat on tests more often. They are also more likely ...

5 pages in length. Hildegard of Bingen was considered a trendsetter of her time; not only did she speak openly of sexual relations between a man and a woman, but she addressed myriad other topics that, up until her literary candor, had only been discussed in private. One area in particular that Hildegard ...

A 6 page paper comparing and contrasting these two short stories. Emphasizes that Kate Chopin was one of the greatest female writers of the late 1800s. Concentrating on short stories, Chopin used her extraordinary talent to illuminate the societal plight of women during the Victorian era. While Chopin is distinctive in her own ...

A 6 page contention that women experienced both adverse impacts and positive impacts during the Renaissance of Northern Europe. As women were subjected to more and more societal ostracization from the societal structures which welcomed their husbands and other males with open arms, they became more and more determined to overcome those injustices. ...

5 pages in length. It is not difficult to realize that impressionable young girls are getting their first introduction to female relationships and sisterhood through a fairy tale that places sibling love and respect below all other aspects of a healthy relationship. Additionally, young readers are taught that the world is dominated by ...

A 7 page analysis that examines the text Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies, which is edited by Lynn Davidson and Shelly Tenebaum. The writer examines their "three-stage" approach to feminist scholarship and then discusses various essays. No additional sources cited.

A Comparison to Jane Austin's Emma; This 6 page paper considers the public and private perceptions of women at the beginning of the nineteen century. There was a great difference in the status of a married woman and that of a single woman, which can be seen by the way in which it contrasts with ...

A paper which looks at the way in which the policies related to affirmative action have been developed, and the social and cultural issues which gave rise to the need for positive discrimination in the first instance. The paper also assesses how effective affirmative action has been, and whether it has achieved its stated aims ...

(8 pp) There used to be a general question in society, about "what is it a woman wants?" There were many joking answers, few of which were complementary, let alone enlightening. Although that has now faded into the background with the exception of filler for a few late-night comics, we are ...

(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 ...

8 pages in length. Comparing the postwar work of Betty Friedan to that of Eldridge Cleaver is to draw a common denominator from two seemingly divergent perspectives. While Friedan's The Feminine Mystique addresses the cultural narrow-mindedness of gender, Cleaver's account in Soul On Ice focuses upon the long-standing racial inequities that have plagued ...

A 6 page overview of women’s fate in the Twentieth Century and their struggle to change that fate. Notes the importance of a collective voice such as that witnessed in the women’s suffrage movement, the Progressive movement, and the Civil Rights movement. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines how the historical definition of feminism has changed over time, and specifically considers the roles of class conflict, race conflict, generational differences, science and technology in fragmenting the women’s movement through three phases of reform – the middle nineteenth-century, the early twentieth century and the late twentieth century. ...

This 5 page paper compares two articles which discuss the Promisekeepers program, a male Christian group that endorses defined roles in marriage. The articles are compared and contrasted in a bulleted format. No additional sources cited.

A 6 page paper which examines why, according to Dershowitz, anti-Semitism is no longer a serious problem for the American Jew, and also considers the issues addressed in the contemporary Jewish feminist revolution, and evaluate its successes and failures, according to Pogrebin. No additional sources are used.

This 5 page report discusses the psychoanalytical aspects of the short story by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) “The Lost Titian” that was published in 1856. It is worth noting that her works’ apparent simplicity often masks a darker and far more intellectual stream of consciousness. From a psychoanalytical perspective it is quite clear that there is much more to the writer and ...