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Gloria Steinem, 2002.
An essay describing the life and literature of Gloria Steinem.
1,418 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper reviews the life and contribution of Gloria Steinem to the literary and feminist world. The writer believes that her work as a gifted writer, career as a feminist activist and efforts as an inspirational speaker proves she is a leader in the women's rights movement. The paper begins with a brief background and history of this woman, from her first writing job at a university newspaper, through to her ultimately successful career as an author.
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"Talented writer, eloquent speaker and founding member of key feminist organizations and political activities; Gloria Steinem is truly a role model for women and women?s rights supporters. For over three decades Gloria has devoted her life to ensuring that women?s issues are at the forefront of concerns in America. From her key participation in passing important legislation, such as the Equal Rights Amendment, to her continued motivational speaking engagements, she continues the fight for the rights of others."
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Gloria Steinem, 2002.
Research into the woman's role in the development of the contemporary male-dominated society, focusing on one of America's feminist activists, Gloria Steinem.
1,251 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper studies the role of women in the development of the contemporary male-dominated society by taking into consideration the relentless efforts of America?s one of the top eleven prominent female figures, Gloria Steinem. Furthermore, the paper revolves around Steinem?s various facets of headstrong personality, outlining her accomplishments, her positive attitude towards life in general, her ability to take up women issues strongly and her valor to raise her voice against injustices and gender bias related to women.
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"Gone are the days when there was little evidence to suggest that female awakening to gender discrimination and fundamental issues exists. Today, women are not only opinionated and self-reliant, they are also well aware of what they want and how to accomplish their goals and receive the share due them. Women of the contemporary society are working diligently and with absolute commitment to prove their worth as human beings with rational thinking and sound decision-making skills."
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Gloria Steinem, 2002.
This paper discusses the life and ideas of Gloria Steinem.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper examines the ideas of Gloria Steinem about women in the workplace. The author provides a brief biography of Steinem. The paper explores the ways Steinem seeks to redefine the workplace and the home to improve women's political and cultural position.
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A Lady: Today and Yesterday, 2002.
An analysis of early feminism connecting with the book/play "Ragtime", highlighting Emma Goldman as a character and historical person, as well as parallels with today's Gloria Steinem and feminism.
2,255 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper studies the changes women have accomplished through feminism during the early 20th century to today, using the play/book Ragtime as an example of one of the portrayals of women of the time. A comparison of the ideals of women of the early 20th century dealing with feminism using Emma Goldman and her events throughout her life as well as how she is portrayed as a character in the play/book Ragtime, with current female social standing with Gloria Steinem as a representative revealing some of her ideals paralleling to Goldman's.
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"Although not an era of radical change, the first ten years of the twentieth century contain a myriad of indications of future transformations. This has proved to be true through the actions and efforts of early feminists as well as today?s. More and more women felt free to choose library work, social work, medicine, and business as a life?s profession in lieu of marriage. In many ways, this century was a new millenium that held special hope and promise for all American women, and they met its challenges with courage, creativity, and conviction. E.L. Doctorow, in his novel Ragtime, demonstrated the transition of women from delicate dependent wives to idealistic, empowered persons during the early twentieth century. Emma Goldman?s inspiring speeches impacted the characters in Ragtime, and their ideals are parallel to current feminists such as Gloria Steinem."
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?Sex, Lies & Advertising?, 2005.
This paper reviews and analyzes the article "Sex, Lies & Advertising" written by author and feminist Gloria Steinem which focuses on the impact of advertisers in the media.
761 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses Steinem's article in which the author and feminist gives a detailed account of how advertising dollars dictate the ads as well as the editorial content in "Ms. Magazine." This paper discusses the actions taken by advertisers such as Revlon and Clairol when their demands regarding editorial content aimed at promoting their products were not met. One example in Steinem's article cited that Clairol withdrew its advertising support after "Ms. Magazine" published an article on the hazards of carcinogens in hair dyes. This paper analyzes how diversity in the field of advertising is seen as a direct threat to reaching a primarily white audience. This paper also examines Steinem's regret in using her publication to sell products that may not be in the best interest of women by citing the financial necessity in doing so.
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"Does consumer power really drive what types of ads are run in magazines? According to Steinem, this is not necessarily the case. Although her magazine had presented ample evidence to advertisers that women are decision makers in purchases involving automobiles, consumer electronics such as sound equipment, VCS, and computers and office equipment, the publication had a really hard time obtaining advertisements for these types of products. One of the reasons given is that the advertising industry lags consumer reality. Where women may once have turned to their significant others to help them make their decisions, they now increasingly rely on their own judgment. But, the old perceptions remain ingrained in advertising executives. And, Stinem states that acceptance of products by women is viewed as a threat to the perceptions of the products by males."
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Gloria Anzaldua's "Borderlands/La Frontera", 2005.
A summary and analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's book about culture and life on the U.S.-Mexican border.
2,123 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper introduces, summarizes and analyzes Gloria Anzaldua's book, "Borderlands". The paper explains that Anzaldua's book is about the identities of the people who live on the borderlands and, in particular, of those who are immersed in contradictory cultures.
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"Individuals derive their sense of identity from their culture. In Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldua crafts a collage of lyric and prose, myth and autobiography, Spanish and English, past and present, inviting her readers to experience the clash of cultures. Through literary experimentation with the autobiography genre, Anzaldua was able to express her Chicana Mestiza identity as a site of multiple and often over-lapping and contradictory subjectivities."
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"This Bridge Called My Back" by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, Eds, 1994.
A review of a feminist collection of works by Black, Asian and Chicana women writers.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"This Bridge Called My Back has the subtitle "Writings by Radical Women of Color," and this is precisely what is contained in this volume. The writings include poems, short stories, and various types of nonfiction demonstrating the range of interests in this particular segment of the population and the different modes of expression used by black, Asian, and Chicana women writers in addressing their role in the world, the state of society today, and their relationship to that society.
The book is edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. Anzaldua is a Chicana poet, and Moraga describes herself as "a very tired Chicana/half-breed/feminist/lesbian/writer/teacher/
talker/waitress" (248), born in Los Angeles and productive first in San Francisco and then Boston. The editors brought the writings in this book together first beginning in 1979, and this..."
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Gloria Naylor's " Linden Hills", 1999.
Critical review of a novel on blacks' pursuit of success at the cost of their own culture.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 79.95
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"Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills is a novel that tells the story of a black neighborhood built and supported by the manipulative and mysterious Nedeed family. The first Luther Nedeed to arrive from the South bought the apparently worthless land and established his undertaker's business there. Each succeeding generation of Nedeeds consisted of one son who was the exact image of his father and bore the same first name. The first Nedeeds had hoped to defy the white world and the white God by establishing the worth of the black people who lived in Linden Hills. They devoted all their efforts to building up the neighborhood and ensuring that as it improved, and the land became extremely valuable, it remained in the hands of African Americans. But the current Luther Nedeed had become convinced that there was nothing that black people could do to truly change.."
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"Linden Hills" ( Gloria Naylor ) and "Beloved" ( Toni Morrison ), 1999.
Examines these novels' allegories, symbolism, structure, characters, themes and styles, emphasizing ordeals endured by African-Americans.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 111.95
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Authors never begin with nothing when they sit down to write. They begin with their lives and with the stories that they grew up with, which is to say that they begin not only with their own experiences but with those of their parents and all the generations before whose stories and lives are still remembered.
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"Authors never begin with nothing when they sit down to write. They begin with their lives and with the stories that they grew up with, which is to say that they begin not only with their own experiences but with those of their parents and all the generations before whose stories and lives are still remembered. When a novelist begins her first book, she begins, at least in part, by unraveling these layers of memory and narrative that form her own life up to that point. And with each successive book she then begins her own process of the layering of stories, so that each new book is in some measure ? as hard as it may be to perceive on a first reading ? a retelling of the stories that she has told before. This re-mingling of tales is apparent in the works of both Gloria Naylor and Tony Morrison.
This paper examines one work by each of these authors ..."
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"The Introduction"., 2002.
Examines the symbolism, structure and meaning in 17th Century poet and feminist, Anne Finch's "The Introduction".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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Feminist literature, as opposed to literature by women, upholds a political, cultural, social, or religious stand asserting the position of women as equal to that of men. Anne Finch, a 17th century poet and writer, in her work "The Introduction", presents just such a feminist assertion - that she is a legitimate writer who, because of her gender, has been discounted on every level possible and is relegated to "fashion" and "play". Anne Finch, also known as Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, is one of the earliest feminist writers who plied her craft at a time when women were property and thus had no rights, no say in the world and certainly no voice that would be heard by men. This is a poem of rage, of frustration, and of righteousness for the author understands that the binds of men are artificial and that she has the truth of the world on her side. Anne Finch wrote before there were feminist slogans, before there were Margaret Sangers and Gloria Steinems moving the feminist movement forward. She, in many ways, was a lone voice in a world that had never heard such thoughts, and had certainly never entertained them.
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Analysis of Texts About Men, 2002.
Analyzes four books on the topic of men and provides a personal view of what can be learned from these books.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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The four works analyzed are: "Real Men" by Joe Jackson, "Men's Power with Women, Other Men, and Society" by Joseph H. Pleck, "If Men Could Menstruate" by Gloria Steinem, and "Men's Initiation Rites" by Robert Bly. This paper analyzes each of these works in relation to men and gives a personal view point of what everyone can learn from these works.
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Poetry: Sex and Love, 2008.
This paper analyzes sex and love In T.S. Elliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Brand New's song "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades"
2,515 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper explains that, in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Brand New's song lyrics "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades", the main characters discover the psychological and emotional strife of sex and love. The author points out that both characters chose a path that they believe will lead to love, but each discovers that he chose the wrong path. The paper relates that the boy in "Sic Transit Gloria" chose to take his relationship with a girl to the next level because he believes that it is time to grow up and get serious; however, he ends up being a victim of sex with no meaning. The paper suggests that Eliot's Prufrock, who believes his chances at love are diminishing quickly, uses his self-doubt as a defense mechanism.
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"The two characters are searching for love, but they make the mistake of looking for the idea of love, rather than the right women to love. Prufrock is fixated on a group of women that he knows he can't have, ignoring the fact that they have nothing in common. If Prufrock were to instead search for a woman who would effortlessly accept him, he would be more successful in finding love. The boy in the song does not search at all, instead he starts backwards: beginning with a sexual relationship rather than an emotional bond. Roger Mitchell describes the character of Alfred Prufrock and T.S. Eliot's similar characters."
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"The Women of Brewster Place", 2005.
This paper discusses Gloria Naylor's novel "The Women of Brewster Place", which tells the stories of several women who have come to live on the dead-end street, Brewster Place.
1,690 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 54.95
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This paper explains that each of the women characters in Gloria Naylor's novel "The Women of Brewster Place" was affected for her entire life by her sexual choices. The author points out that these sexual choices dominated their lives such as Mattie, who chose to sublimate her sexual desires with other values, or Cora Lee, who used sex to give meaning to her life. The paper states that, of all the characters in the book, the only one who seems to have a balanced view of the place of sex in the overall fabric of her life is Kiswana.
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"From the time she is introduced into the action, Kiswana is a recurring presence in the story and, while we never actually meet her lover, Abshu, it is made clear that he is there. "That's Abshu's woman, and that bid dude don't mind kickin' ass," says a street thug. (Chapter 6, pg. 163) Kiswana's choice of a suitable, reliable man and a monogamous relationship leave her free to pursue the political activism that is an essential element of her character. Together, she and Abshu work in the movement for equal rights, with Kiswana spearheading an effort to force the absentee landlord of Brewster Street to improve his properties."
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?Mama Day?, 2004.
An analysis of the theme of race in Gloria Naylor's ?Mama Day?.
2,314 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how, in "Mama Day", author Gloria Naylor narrates the story of a relationship that takes place between the characters, George and Ophelia. It looks at how both are black and without biological parents, yet carry different cultural backgrounds despite this likeness of race and parentage. George is the son of a prostitute, has no memory of blood relatives, and grows up in a white-run orphanage where his ideals and beliefs are shaped. Ophelia, who is also called Cocoa, is raised by her grandmother, Abigail, and great aunt, Mama Day, who enable her to maintain cultural connections to history through her birthplace, Willow Springs. It shows how Willow Springs is barely influenced by its connection to the United States and how, instead, it is a space shaped by its African relation through the people who inhabit it. It explores how the novel takes place in New York, where life is structured and hectic and juxtaposed against Willow Springs, where time and structure do not hold importance in the lives of its inhabitants.
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"Beginning in1823 through the legend of Saphira Wade?s possession of Willow Springs then her killing of her white husband, white control on the island is never again achieved. The black inhabitants carry on the myth of Saphira Wade as a means of maintaining their power. In this sense, ?Mama Day?s and Naylor?s own attempts to recuperate a cultural legacy reveal the desire for ancestral knowledge as a motivating force behind the ways in which individuals and communities construct myth. For the people of Willow Springs, such myth making becomes an essential tool in the construction of personal and collective identities? (Stave, p.158). As an island with a past of slavery and presently owned by blacks, the culture on Willow Springs is created and maintained by the blacks that live there and the physical nature of the land."
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The Men and Women of Brewster Place, 2005.
A comparative analysis of Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster Place" and "The Men of Brewster Place".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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In this comparison and contrast of Gloria Naylor's The "The Women of Brewster Place" and "The Men of Brewster Place", the author focuses on the victimization of Black women by Black men. It also looks at how "The Men of Brewster Place" puts this abuse into a broader perspective that also shows the women to be somewhat culpable for the victimization.
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"Two of Gloria Naylor's books The Women of Brewster Place and The Men of Brewster place feature the same characters and location. The location is Brewster Place a deteriorating tenement where African- American.."
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