Essays and Research Papers on Social Issues

A 14 page paper which examines the relationship between style of dress and crimes against women as it involves the United States and the Middle East. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

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

This 3 page paper provides a historical reference for the movement.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 ...

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This 4 page paper examines this feminist's contribution. The paper concludes that her most important contribution to society is in fact the recognition that gender is a social construction. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines feminist issues and concerns today as they relate to social expectations and criminology. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 7 page paper which examines women’s rights in the 1900s and Ernest Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses some of the prejudices that women currently face in the U.S.

This 3 page paper discusses some of the prejudices that women currently face in the U.S. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

6 pages in length. The shift in the way America's judicial system responds to the issue of domestic violence has been both grand and far-reaching; what was once a situation spouses were expected to endure within the confines of matrimony is now considered nothing short of abuse. That victims of domestic violence are ...

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the roles of working mothers and stay at home mothers. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 6 page paper which examines the importance of self defense knowledge and skills for women. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

3 pages in length. America's unprecedented political maneuver of having a woman run for the nation's highest office is a clear indication of just how far the United States has come with regard to social and political progress. Hillary Clinton has indeed created a legacy for feminists and naysayers alike merely by having ...

This 3 page paper argues against legalized abortion. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 25 page paper examines the ongoing issue of the ‘glass ceiling’, where women find it difficult to gain promotions and reach senior management or leadership positions. The paper assesses the scope and scale of the problem and identified many of the barriers leading to the under representation of women at senior levels and the ...

A 6 page paper which discusses various aspects of the problem of maternal employment and breastfeeding. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This paper is a 3 page reaction to authors Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni's “Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States”. This paper emphasizes the importance of Native American sovereignty in insuring that Native American nations have the sole right to intercede when it comes to the welfare ...

A 3 page essay on Virginia Held's position, which argues that "giving birth to human beings should not be thought to be any more 'essentially natural'...than is human death," but rather birth, like death, should be "understood to be central to whatever is thought to be distinctly human" (Held 112). The writer explains this statement, ...

A 3 page paper which examines the element of passion, or the lack thereof, within Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women. The paper also examines Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko as it pertains to passion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses reasons why abused women don’t leave their abusers. Much of the paper is a first-person narrative of the experiences of such a woman. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page essay that analyzes the rhetorical devices used by Fatema Mernissi in her critique of Western societal expectations for women's body size. No additional sources are cited.

This 7 page paper discusses educator Margaret Finders’s book on adolescent girls and their behavior in and out of the classroom. Bibliography lists 4 sources.