Abstract This paper discuses the issue of gender roles in Charlotte Lennox's book "The Female Quixote". It focuses on the main character Arabella and how she manages to make the world revolve around her. It looks at the issue of female empowerment, relationship between the sexes and how these relate to modern day.
From the paper:
"Charlotte Lennox's "The Female Quixote" decries the influence of romantic novels on its main female protagonist, Arabella. Like Cervantes? Don Quixote, a reading of romance novels, tales of beautiful women and their influence on men, and of their being the center of the world they dwell in, with everything seeming to revolve around their person, ostensibly seeks to expose the delusions of such women. By putting the onus of such delusions upon the romance, they decry fictions, or at least the genre of fiction that goes by the name of romances. However, a reading of the novels brings forth the great truth that it is neither the romantic fiction, nor its misreading and misinterpretation by the main protagonists of these two novels and others of their kind, but the entire gamut of gender relations that can be held responsible and that needs to be probed further as the cause of such delusions. "
Abstract Traces the historical evolution of female sexual-social mores, the biological influences on female mating preferences and styles, and the evolution of the monogamous and non-monogamous family. It ends with a discussion of the implications of exchange theory and the scarcity model of economics as it relates to modern monogamy and its social, emotional, and physical consequences.
Historical Evolution of Female Sexual Social Mores
The Biological Evolution of Female Sexual Preferences
Future Evolution of the Family
The Social and Emotional Consequences of Serial Monogamous
Relationships
The Social and Emotional Ramifications of Non-Monogamous Relationships
Possible Evolutions: Scarcity Model versus Abundance Models of Sexual
Economics
From the Paper "The forces of history and biology have served to promote the suppression of female sexuality and the idealizations of monogamy among female humans. However, the recent rise of feminist power movements, secure birth control methods, and a cultural "sexual" revolution have combined to make non-monogamous lifestyles the norm. While most women still embrace the ideal of monogamy, life-long marriage relationships have been replaced by serial monogamy as the standard in Western Culture. Non-monogamous relationships are also gaining in popularity."
Abstract This paper examines the difference in depression levels among female adolescents attending rural schools versus female adolescents attending urban schools. The paper looks at the rationale for the study; presents a review of related literature; methodology and implications of the study. The focus is on urban versus rural schools.
Abstract Female genital mutilation has been an institution in Islam for centuries, still exists today, and is practiced in at least twenty countries throughout the Islamic world, from Africa to Indonesia. This hideous practice emerged in Arabia, the original Muslim homeland, from where it spread to the regions conquered by Muslim armies. Quranic injunctions, Islamic conquests and Muslim administrative institutions have given it a continuity and legitimacy which have perpetuated it into modern times. This paper discusses female genital mutilation in the Islamic world. The paper discusses its history, origins, where it is practiced, how it is still practiced today and what the position of Islamic authorities of today is on female genital mutilation.
Abstract This paper takes a look at female sexual dysfunction and some of the several causes that attribute to it. The author provides a brief overview on early references made on female sexuality in medical writing and discusses diagnostic methods. The paper also discusses psychotherapy as a treatment method and the church's take on female sexual dysfunction.
Outline:
A Brief Overview
Why is there Dysfunction?
When Did This Begin?
How Can We Know the Dysfunction Exists?
What Happens When it's Treated?
Where Else Can Help Be Found?
Conclusion
From the Paper "While Female Sexual Dysfunction is not a rare problem, it is difficult to treat due to the fact that patients often feel uncomfortable talking with their physicians about it. Often, too, there is more than one cause and the different causes may require different treatments. Psychotherapy is not the only treatment available today. While it has been the policy of the church, in the past, to lead women to believe what should be normal sexual desire is instead perverse or bad, that attitude is slowly changing and the church is helping women build a better self-image."
Tags: sex related problems, female sexuality, treatment psychotherapy
Abstract In this article, the writer examines the use of the Internet by female teenagers. The writer then studies the effects by the Internet on the teenagers' self image. The writer looks at the influence of the Internet on the psycho-social development of teens. In this paper, the writer also discusses how female and male usage of the Internet differs.
From the Paper "Over the last decade, an increasing number of teenagers have become prominent users of the Internet, thus generating concerns among parents and researchers with regard to its effects on their psychological well-being. In one of the studies many of the parents surveyed assert their worries about their children's isolation from others in the real world and their development of antisocial behavior due to Internet use. Due to their vulnerability to adult predators, teenage girls and their use of ... "
A discussion of the article "Marriage, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Excess Female Mortality Among Adults During Early German Development", by Stephen Klasen.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, 2005, $ 44.95
Abstract This paper discusses the female mortality rate in West Germany between 1680 and 1870. The paper is based on an article review of Stephen Klasen's "Marriage, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Excess Female Mortality Among Adults During Early German Development." The analysis includes examining four other articles that are relevant to the topic.
From the Paper "Adult Female Mortality in Early German Development: 1680-1870 The article "Marriage, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Excess Female Mortality Among Adults During Early German Development, 1680-1870", written by Stephen Klasen, examines mortality rates of adult females in Germany between the late 1600s and mid to late 1800s. The purpose for Klasen's study was to find out whether gender bias existed in the allocation of household resources. His empirical research discovered that the mortality rate among married adult females was considerably excessive."
Abstract The paper discusses how in fairy tales, female characters are often associated with a long search for a mate, which ends in a happily-ever-after relationship. Yet, the paper maintains that what is often not considered is the strength of many female fairy tale characters and the struggles that they endure in order to achieve their goals. The paper highlights how the characters of Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel all demonstrate women that have suffered through prolonged distress prior to realizing happiness.
Abstract This paper reviews eight web site sources which provide valuable information with regards to female entrepreneurship and feminism. It offers an annotated bibliography and two-paragraph summary of each source as well as a paragraph outlining how this source will be utilized in the author's upcoming work on the phenomenon of female entrepreneurship and feminism around the world.
From the Paper "This site, administered and sponsored by the Education Foundation, features interesting articles on how to be a successful young entrepreneur. The article I have reviewed provides information on where young women should look when seeking entrepreneurial opportunities; similarly, a rough profile is presented of female entrepreneurs and what characteristics they possess (in truth, they are ordinary people who simply have the courage to pursue their passions). Lastly, the site contains a link to Seton Hall University's National Education Center for Women in Business."
Tags: feminism, women, business, female, gender, sex
Abstract This paper details the assessment and diagnosis of a 39-year-old female with an eating disorder and depression. Assessment instruments are evaluated and treatment options are discussed as well as the case study's history.
Abstract This paper traces the development and history of the Arab American Female in educational institutes and suggests that face a lot of prejudice from both their family and peer groups as they try to adjust.
Abstract This paper examines how classically male vampires in horror films are portrayed in a sympathetic light as tortured men who are suffering from a compulsion rather than having homicidal tendencies. It looks at how the female vampires of the 1970?s, however, are depicted in a completely different manner. They are young, beautiful, and unrepentant; their goal is not only to satisfy their cravings, but also to corrupt and consume the souls of their victims. It analyzes how filmmakers of this era depict these strong, sensual women as sexual deviants through a review of such films as "The Vampire Lovers" (1970), "Lust for a Vampire" (1971), and "A Filha de Dracula" (1972).
From the Paper "By the 1970?s, monsters in horror films changed a great deal, especially in the case of female monsters. The stereotypical masculine lesbian expected by audiences was replaced by the heterosexual male fantasy of the hyper-feminine woman (Cook 45). In female vampire films, young, nubile women strut about, often without their clothes, purely for the benefit of the heterosexual male audience. They are portrayed as carefree and unrepentant; the curse that burdens the male vampire is conspicuously absent from these films. "Hedonism above compulsion" (Silver 112) is accentuated as the primary source of motivation for their deviant behavior. The female vampire's victims, similar to those of the male vampire, are young and na?ve, yet there is a romantic aspect that is not present in male vampire films. The female vampire derives as much pleasure from the seduction of her victim as she does from drawing blood."
Tags: death, dracula, lesbian, monsters, female, fantasy
Abstract This paper explains the development and purpose of kinship networks in female prisons. The paper identifies and describes the roles that make up these groups. The paper also discusses the fact that women represent the fastest growing prison population.
From the Paper "The number of women incarcerated in prisons and jails is growing dramatically. According to Harrison and Beck, during ... alone, the number of women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal prison authorities increased..."
An analysis of how form contributes to the representation of the 'female malady' in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and in Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper".
Abstract This paper examines how the imposed confinement of Gilman's heroine in "The Yellow Wallpaper" drives her to insanity as a means of liberation and how in contrast, Walker's heroine in "The Color Purple" goes through rage to achieve hers. It discusses how form contributes, in Gilman's story, to represent the 'female malady' as insanity and in Walker's novel, to represent it as liberating rage.
From the Paper "The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story covering, chronologically, one summer. The protagonists spend it in a house in the countryside as part of the medical treatment prescribed to the heroine for her "nervous depression" (Gilman, p. 348), diagnosed by her husband and her brother, both physicians. The heroine spends most of this period in one room, deemed by her husband as the most suitable (given her "condition") and which she dislikes from first sight because of its yellow wallpaper. The isolation and, mainly, the prohibition to work (write), slowly drive her to insanity."
Abstract The paper notes that the role of women in novels is as diverse as women themselves, and two stories that demonstrate this diversity is Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".The paper shows how these novels portray women as strong characters, but in very different ways and that these women also show us that happiness does not always come to those that are the most aggressive or those who speak the loudest. According to the paper, strength is an inner beauty, and while these authors write about strong women, it is clear that strength appears differently to different people.The paper concludes that, while the females in these stories live very different lives, they illustrate that strength comes in many forms.
From the Paper "Elizabeth is a strong woman in the Frankenstein. She is Victor's lifeline when he finally comes around after his ordeal with the creature. Her voice is rather quiet but her essence is not. She is important to Victor and when he finds himself at a loss, he reaches for her to provide security and stability. From early in the novel, he refers to her as "my more than sister" and a "possession of my own". Elizabeth is strong and determined and we this when Caroline dies. We read that she devoted herself to her duties to "those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins" . In addition, Victor tells us, "Never was she more enchanting as at this time".
