Abstract This paper traces the life and writings of author, Kate Chopin. It looks at her origins and early life. It then moves on to a brief analysis of her most important work, "The Awakening", focusing on what sparked the rediscovery of her works by the feminist movement of the 1960's and 70's.
From the Paper "A once successful 19th Century writer, Kate Chopin faded into obscurity for decades. During the feminist era of the late 1960's and ?70?s, her writings were rediscovered and her critical popularity has made her forever a writer of renown. Her novel, "The Awakening" that launched the demise of her fame when it was shunned for its sensuality, is now included on standard college literature reading lists. She is now spoken of in the same breath as Flannery O?Connor and other southern women writers. Although asleep for decades, she re-emerged as brilliant color on the landscape of American literature."
Tags: origin, woman, feminist, Awakening, American, literature
Abstract The paper discusses the many factors which led to the execution of Joan of Arc by the British after she succeeded in driving them out of France during the Hundred Year War. The paper shows that many believed that she succeeded by the will of God and the mysticism movement of the time is also examined. The paper also shows that the issues that led to her execution ultimately involved the church, politics, and her popularity as a possible martyr.
From the Paper ""The voice told me that it is God's will to deliver the people of France from the calamity that is upon them" (Trask 25). The voices are those of Saint Catharine and Saint Margaret. They counseled Joan of Arc during the end of Hundred Years War. The Hundred Year War consisted of many smaller battles that drove the English out of France (Lerner 381). It is believed by many that Joan of Arc drove the English out of France by the will of God. The Duke of Burgundy captured Joan and sold her to the English, who took her back to England, where she was tried by the church for witchcraft and heresy. Joan of Arc's death suggested that many issues contributed to her execution."
Discussion of issues: identification & counseling of those at risk, incl. secondary victims (children). Punishment of batterers. Education of healthcare professionals. Public education programs.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 20 sources, 2001, $ 71.95
From the Paper "Domestic violence, now often referred to as intimate partner violence, is almost epidemic in America. The latest National Crime Victimization Survey identified more than 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend occur every year in America alone (Willson et al, 2000). About 85 percent of victims are women. Although women are less likely overall to be a victim of violent crime, they are 8 times more likely than men to suffer violence at the hands of an intimate partner.
A population-based telephone survey in South Carolina in 1998 showed that 25 percent of women and 13 percent of men had experienced some form of intimate partner violence during their lifetime (U.S. Center for Disease Control, 2000). Although women were significantly more likely to experience physical ..."
From the Paper "Isabel Allende's novel The House of the Spirits depicts the lives of three generations of women in one Chilean family and relates their story to the social, cultural, and political life of Chile. The author in this way displays her own feminist views and brings her critical faculties to bear on her society. She uses the Latin American literary style known as "magic realism" in shaping this story, told from a woman's point of view, a point of view that infuses every element of the novel.
The women portrayed in this novel by Allende are strong women, a fact that emerges clearly from the pages and that makes the women stand out in relation to the males in their society, yet these are also women who exist in a society that restrains them and limits their aspirations, forcing those aspirations to be lived primarily through the males of the family. The House.."
From the Paper "There are many differences of opinion in the field of social psychology regarding the way in which people form social perceptions, develop social identities, and establish gender roles. The intention in this paper is to look at the question of stereotyping in terms of these three categories and explore how that impacts women as a whole and corporate women in particular.
Defining the Terms
Social perception. In their book, Aronson et al. (1998) define social perception simply as the way in which we form..."
From the Paper "Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a new problem, though it has been given a great deal of attention in recent years because the public consciousness about the issue has increased. The fact that this problem had been underground for so long also showed that more knowledge of the subject was needed and perhaps that legislation was required to assure a harassment-free workplace in the future. The precise definition of what constitutes sexual harassment has had to be determined by legislation and court decisions and so has shifted over the past several years. The Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. refined and expanded the concept of the hostile workplace and so made it easier to win sexual harassment suits. How you view this case and its effects may be a function of whether you are an employee concerned about sexual harassment..."
From the Paper "The defining concern of the Progressive Era, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was the transferring of responsibility for social policy from the states to the federal level of government. Abolition, prohibition, immigration, labor, and women's suffrage were all social policy issues which the legislatures, at state and federal levels, heard and debated. Women felt the need to speak in public, about abolition in the beginning, and then realized that they had no power to affect decisions except through the influencing of men's votes. Women's suffrage was the first step towards equality of the sexes which has not yet been achieved. Women today need to reacquire the guiding principles and moral foundation of the initial campaign period and must exercise the right to vote which was given by the nineteenth amendment."
From the Paper "In a culture which traces back its roots to the most ancient of civilizations, Jewish tradition has only relatively recently begun to interrogate its own historical positioning of women. Defining the appropriate sphere for the operation of a woman's influence and range of activities within a tradition-bound culture has proved to be tumultuous within this century.
To establish an accurate appraisal of women's status and role within Judaism currently serves as two of its most compelling tasks (Ghatan xvii). Understanding the radical alterations in Jewish women's roles may be most appropriately handled in..."
From the Paper " Women and work and women and marriage cannot be separated in much of history because marriage was seen as the proper role for women, and the work done in the home was considered the proper form of work for a woman to undertake as her life's occupation. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, some women writers found ways to suggest that women should have more rights, that they should have more occupational opportunities than they did, and that marriage might or might not be the proper role for a women. In any case, whether or not to marry should be her choice and not that of society or her family. Some of these ideas are found in the works of
Mary Wollstonecraft and in Charlotte Bront?'s Jane Eyre.
Mary Wollstonecraft was as famous a writer as her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, would become, but today the daughter.."
From the Paper " Aileen S. Kraditor discusses the history of the Woman Suffrage Movement form 1890 to 1920, the movement by which women agitated for and finally received the vote, something they had been denied in the original U.S. Constitution. The fact that women were omitted shows the nature of power relations between the sexes at that time in our history, and the resistance encountered to suffrage at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries shows that little seemed to have changed. However, the women were able to make their point and bring about change. Kraditor specifically considers the role of the leadership of the movement and the ideas that motivated them and by which they motivated others. She begins from the view that the movement did not have a central ideology and instead involved a number of different ideas, approaches, and.."
Examining this phenomena in terms of socioeconomic inequities & oppression, alienation from feminism, work, marriage & family, education and socialization.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, 1999, $ 39.95
From the Paper "Working class women internalize their own oppression. These women learn the stereotypes that define their lives at an early age. Working class women strive to maintain the traditional feminine ideal while simultaneously struggling with the limitations of class.
To a significant extent, the problems of working class women persist because they have not participated in the financial gains of the women's movement. Middle class women reaped the greatest benefits. They dramatically increased their presence in professional fields such as medicine, law, and banking: "in little more than a decade women increased their representation among the most prestigious and lucrative professions by 300 to 400 percent" (Ehrenreich, 1990, p. 217). Granted, middle class women still encounter the "glass ceiling" in their efforts to.."
Ethnographic overview of women's social, marital, family and ceremonial roles and how they are affected by urban or rural location, age and historical era.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, 1999, $ 55.95
Abstract One of the problems in the social sciences is that people look to the social sciences for the same kinds of answers about people that physical sciences provide about atoms or chemicals. This does not take into account the fact that human beings are affected by an incredible diversity of family, cultural, and other environmental influences that impact their behavior.
From the Paper "Gender Roles and Chinese Women
Introduction
One of the problems in the social sciences is that people look to the social sciences for the same kinds of answers about people that physical sciences provide about atoms or chemicals. This does not take into account the fact that human beings are affected by an incredible diversity of family, cultural, and other environmental influences that impact their behavior. Even in one society, people live in different regions, belong to different classes, and operate under unique value systems. Still, there may be some generalities that are possible. The intent in this paper is to explore gender roles for women in China, making the argument that those roles have some general ..."
Abstract The purpose of this research is to examine the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, with an emphasis on Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas that emerge in the action of the play and then to discuss how these ideas articulate an attitude toward the phenomenon and enactment of criminal justice and the social position and role of women in Spain, past and present.
From the Paper "The purpose of this research is to examine the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, with an emphasis on Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas that emerge in the action of the play and then to discuss how these ideas articulate an attitude toward the phenomenon and enactment of criminal justice and the social position and role of women in Spain, past and present.
Based on fact, Fuente Ovejuna is set in fifteenth-century provincial Spain, at the moment of history (1476) when the Spanish monarchy was in the sixth year of consolidating its government institutions under Ferdinand of Castile and Isabella of Aragon. In the background of this project were several centuries of war among various feudal kingdoms of the Iberian ..."
A review of work counteracting misinterpretations about women's characters in the male-written classics, Virgil's "Aeneid" and Dante's "Divine Comedy."
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, 2000, $ 63.95
From the Paper "Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (1405) was written to counteract the lies and misrepresentations about women's character that the author found in literature in which all the male writers seemed to "speak from one and the same mouth" (4). She resolved, with the help and guidance of the allegorical figures of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, to write a demonstration of the invaluable contributions of women throughout history. She intended to counteract the ridiculous claims by male writers "that the behavior of women is inclined to and full of every vice" (4). Her examples range from the mythological Amazons to the women of the Old Testament and examples from more recent history. The greatest number, however, derived from classical history and literature. One of the best known, or, as Pizan put it, the woman whose "fame has surpassed that of all..."
An examination of the effects of lower-income single-parent mothers on their children's educational achievements, focusing on Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 9 sources, 2000, $ 55.95
Abstract "The topic of this presentation is the effects of lower-income single-parent mothers on their children's educational achievements, with the focus on AFDC families.
Before discussing the effects of the single-parent family structure on the children, it is important to have a general profile of an AFDC family. Therefore, the class will have a clear picture of the impact of the family on its children's educational achievements.
From the Paper "The topic of this presentation is the effects of lower-income single-parent mothers on their children's educational achievements, with the focus on AFDC families.
Before discussing the effects of the single-parent family structure on the children, it is important to have a general profile of an AFDC family. Therefore, the class will have a clear picture of the impact of the family on its children's educational achievements.
AFDC, which stands for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, is a subsidy that is almost entirely devoted to single mothers. In 1983 (the latest official statistics available), single mothers constituted 75 percent of all AFDC mothers. In this group of single mothers, 45 percent are divorced or separated, while 30 percent had babies out of wedlock..."
