Essays and Research Papers on Other Cultures

This 12 page paper presents the situation of women in Afghanistan and their opportunities for education. A brief history of the region is included as well as overview of women's roles, past, present, and future. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

10 pages in length. As India becomes a significant player in the newly-emerging global marketplace, the country's women still remain socially inferior to their male counterparts. This analytical research dpaper specifically examines Indian women, the availability of education, the false promise of employment, and some possible socio-cultural solutions.

This 15 page paper focuses on Spain, its treatment of women and how feminism has sparked new opportunities. How feminism is integrated in this traditional society is also discussed. Most of the paper however is about education, and how women have contributed to the field. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the film "Senorita Extraviada" about the rape and murder of young girls in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and the relationship between the crimes and the idea of gender as a social construct. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 7 page book review that examines Gender, Politics and Islam (2002, Saliba, Allen and Howard, Eds.). This text offers a compilation of articles that were first published in Signs between 1997 and 2002, which pertain to women's experience within the boundaries of Islam and specific Arab and African cultures. The purpose of the text ...

A 9 page analysis of 2 books that offer coming of age narratives of 2 authors who grew up in Islamic cultures. Leila Ahmed in A Border Passage and Marjane Satrapi in Persepolis offer their readers autobiographical narratives that examine the complex and intertwined relationships between imperialism, gender and Islam. Examination of these two autobiographies ...

11 pages in length. Women’s status throughout the ages has experienced significant changes from complete patriarchal control to the birth of feminism and beyond, a metamorphosis that clearly illustrates the struggles inherent to both historical and contemporary gender issues. That women have only recently – upon the overall timeline of existence – demanded ...

14 pages in length. The writer discusses what the concept of rights truly means in relation to African gender inequity, with the general consensus reflecting the respect for and appreciation of one's own unrestricted distinctiveness amidst the broader social spectrum. This is the basis upon which contemporary African women's human rights groups glean ...

11 pages in length. Throughout Japan's history, women have typically been represented as a combination of an oppressed yet liberated gender, inasmuch as there have long existed significant patriarchal overtones. While there has historically been a certain population of Japanese women who have held high social position due to their business or personal ...

This 6 page paper takes a look at two books--Doumato's Getting God's Ear and Fernea's Guests of the Sheik : An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. The works are compared and contrasted. The importance of gender is discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

4 pages in length. The issue of gender – all the social, political and economic hardship imposed upon women – is due directly to the cultural construct of patriarchy. While some countries like the United States have overcome a significant amount of such oppressive gender control, others in lesser-evolved societies continue to persecute ...

A 5 page overview of the key concepts presented in this 1999 publication. This paper contends that is a much needed treatise on gender issues which have been so frequently overlooked by the world’s predominantly white male anthropologists and historians. A particular emphasis is placed on examining a woman’s role in regard to ...

4 pages in length. The topic of this paper is important for many reasons, not the least of which includes the social, economic and gender oppression Vietnamese women have historically experienced with regard to cultural development. One only has to be concerned with equitable treatment for everyone across the globe to have an ...

This 7 page paper examines changes in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. A look at the female gender under capitalism and communism is taken. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

6 pages in length. Despite the fact post-Taliban efforts have attempted to provide some semblance of women's rights in an era of expanding free speech and other civil liberties, those rights may exist in thought and limited application, but they are in constant struggle with the governmental forces that want to maintain a patriarchal ...

10 pages in length. Women of China have faced the same cultural challenges as virtually all other global societies where patriarchal influence rules. The extent to which Chinese women have experienced the ebb and flow of gender equity throughout the centuries is both grand and far-reaching; that certain historic eras have illustrated unprecedented ...

7 pages in length. Had Bertrande de Rols learned to read and lived long enough to have had the opportunity to partake of Francois Poullain de la Barre's "Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises," thereby giving her the chance to debate with him the status of men and women in early modern French society, one might ...

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts two articles about cultural concerns. The articles are Gender, politeness, and Confrontation in Tenejapa by Penelope Brown and Peasant men can't get wives: language change and sex roles in bilingual community by Susan Gal. No additional sources cited.

During the occupation of Asia by the Japanese prior to and during World War Two women of the occupied countries were abducted and forced into prostitution for the 'comfort' of Japanese soldiers. The government has admitted complicity in this crime against humanity but refuses to admit responsibility nor allot restitution. This 10 page paper asserts ...

A 7 page paper that examines the overpopulation problem that currently plagues modern Egypt. Discussed are the primary causes of this population boom as well as the steps that the Egyptian government is presently taking to rectify this problem. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 6 page paper. This essay discusses the general health conditions in Africa, and in particular, in Mozambique. An emphasis is placed on women's health issues. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page examination of the contention that "the relationship between women's employment and fertility is 'elusive and ambiguous'". The author speculates that in some situations women's employment might be likely to result in greater sexual and reproductive choice. This contention can be demonstrated with a look at microcredit programs, programs which are ...

14 pages in length. The struggle for female emancipation has been a long and arduous process; throughout history, women of virtually every ethnic background have been forced to comply with oppressive patriarchal demands, which have been responsible for maintaining the gender hierarchy that still exists in contemporary society. Historically, Taiwanese women have had ...

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. ...

This 5 page paper discusses the role of women in traditional Japanese and Chinese cultures, and how that role has evolved over the years. Bibliography lists 6 sources.