Abstract This paper will examine the status of Hong Kong women for the two-hundred year period (approximate), covering the 1800 and 1900's. In order to achieve a concise and fair assessment, this paper will focus on particular areas. Marriage, the mooi-jai, and concubinage will be included as focus point which reveal the inferior status of women in historical and contemporary Hong Kong. Secondly, the issue of work is crucial area of inquiry to pursue. The relationship between women and the hierarchical system in which they live will be covered. This will include the relationship between women and capitalist colonialism; women and post-colonial capitalism, and the patriarchy. A brief section on the socio-cultural aspects of the status of women, particularly the images of women, follows. Finally, in the concluding section, women and political power and women and women's studies at the university level are the two areas of inquiry.
Abstract This paper first presents brief summaries of arguments both for and against homosexual marriages. The paper then argues the author's opinion that same-sex partners are entitled to the same legal recognition of their marriages as heterosexual couples.
From the Paper "To some people, the mere mention of the words "gay" and "marriage" in the same sentence are like red flags to a bull. They rant and rave that same-sex marriage is wrong and threaten a backlash against the gay and lesbian community if activists seek marital rights. While it may have been easy to dismiss those types of statements as right-wing propaganda, the results of election 2004, in which the voters of many states enacted legislation prohibiting gay marriage, have made a number of people, both within and without of the gay community, make it impossible to simply dismiss the statements."
