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"Nisa: Life and Words of a !Kung Woman", 2002.
An in-depth look at the life of the !Kung through one woman's eyes, and a comparison to modern American life.
2,368 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper examines "Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman", by Marjorie Shostak which is about an African people called the !Kung, or !Kung San, or Bushmen. They live in the Kalahari desert in southwestern Africa and the !Kung are hunter gatherers, also called foragers. It explains how this cross cultural comparison examines all we have in common with this way of life that is fading fast.
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"As a result of ignorance, most people living in the U.S. believe that our way of life is the only way of life. Consequentially, the different cultures of different societies are not truly appreciated for their complexity and beauty. An ethnography - an in-depth description of a culture based on firsthand experience - can change all that. Anyone who reads Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak, an ethnography on the !Kung people, is bound to value this culture which is completely different from our own. They will also discover that although the culture is very foreign, many aspects of everyday human life resemble our own."
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The Life and Words of a Kung Woman, 2007.
This paper discusses child discipline in Kung! society versus western society.
1,042 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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In this article, the writer notes that in both Kung! and Western society, the mother-child bond is considered to be the primary bond between parent and child. The writer points out that fathers play a role in child rearing, but the mother-child bond is the most intense. The writer notes that unlike the conventional, nuclear parental division of authority and discipline in the West, Kung! women have the authority. The writer explains that the father coming home from work dispensing discipline is not the figure of reverence and/or fear as in the West. In Kung! society it is the mother. The writer discusses that this division of disciplinary labor is accepted, there is neither patriarchy nor an attempt for mother and father to have equal authority upon the child.
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"In both Western and Kung! culture there is some anxiety attached to the correct time to sever the close bond between mother and child upon weaning and to give the child the status of a formal, autonomous member of the tribe. But unlike Western mothers who must work outside the home, Kung! mothers have little motivation or resources to find other ways of providing nutrition for their children other than breast-feeding. There seems to be little anxiety about nurturing a child correctly, perhaps because rather than the multiplicity of models of motherhood that Western women are subject to, Kung! society is far more mono-cultural. Because it is not thought appropriate or healthy for a pregnant mother to nurse a child, the justification for weaning is usually biological rather than sociological, as Western women may be apt to wonder about harming the child's socialization. Kung! mothers wean their children much later, usually around the age of three, and as late as age five, if they are expecting no other children."
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Wallace Stevens and Desire: Woman Lost--Woman Ignored, 2005.
A psychosexual and archetypal study of feminine figures in "Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens".
5,141 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 33 sources, MLA, $ 128.95
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This paper examines the "Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens", America poet. The paper shows that desire and desired denied in this work may be interpreted through the archetypal psychology of Carl Jung to disclose the reason for Stevens' preference for places over people and to explain his ambivalence toward the abstract feminine figures in his poems.
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"Feminine archetypes reconstruct the distant attitudes in Stevens' poetry by figuring-forth embedded emotions. First, they provide an archetypal perspective on individual poems. Second, they illustrate how, ranging from Harmonium (1923) to The Rock (1954), clusters of motifs influence the poet-hero's psychic development. Although their appearances change to fit their ambiguous roles, these singular feminine figures determine the poet-hero's canon-long struggle to achieve a regulated unity of self. Two categories need to be distinguished: (a) feminine figures and (b) the interior paramour. Their protean capability makes scrupulous demarcations between exterior feminine figures impossible, but three forms or combinations prevail: the summer maiden (Kore or lover), the universal mother or earth mother, and the maiden-mother (an overlapping maid and mother figure). The interior paramour represents a climax to the poet-hero's experience with exterior feminine figures."
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Women Mentoring Women, 2000.
A brief historical overview of women and their past legal, as well as an analysis of the unique influential process of mentoring and the problems that have resulted from this process.
6,535 words (approx. 26.1 pages), 52 sources, $ 150.95
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This is an exhaustive paper examining the way that women mentor women in modern American professional society. Examines the history of the phenomenon, and gives information on how mentoring should be given and received.
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"Women mentoring women in the workplace is a relatively new phenomenon. Woman-to-woman mentoring encompasses circumstances and rules that are specific to a female style and representative of a female culture. The workplace puts demands on our priorities and our energy that bring new factors into woman-to-woman relationships. Our identity as professional women with career responsibilities affects our interactions with other women who are also committed to improving their performance and achieving greater success. Women learning from women at work, women mentoring each other as career professionals with job and personal lives, is an emerging opportunity with enormous potential to change work and women's lives for the future (Duff, 1999, p. xv & xvi). Mentoring begins with an influence that someone has upon another person. It also can help to shape and develop a person's personality and thoughts. In research, it has been proven that women need role models that help them to pursue and conquer future endeavors in the workforce. Discovery into the differences between males and females might be a way to unlock strategies to aid in diversity counseling as well as provide positions in organizations that are solely devoted to mentorship."
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Women's Poetry and Women's Politics, 2002.
A comparison between the poetry of Muriel Ruckeyser and that of Adrienne Rich, and an exploration of their feminist messages.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper analyzes the poetry of Muriel Ruckeyser, as found in her book ?The Book of the Dead?, and that of Adrienne Rich, using her work entitled "Twenty-one Love Poems". The paper gives a biographical background on each of the poets, stressing their importance to the contemporary women?s movement and to American poetry. Rich?s poems are explored for their ideas on the relationships between women, and Ruckeyser?s are studied in terms of their comparison to a documentary and in relation to her strong political view.
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"To many, Poetry is the voice of women. It is the way in which women can express their inner thoughts and feelings, to write the things that they can not say. Poetry is more than words on paper but someone?s feelings and life poured into the readers mind. Poets let the readers climb inside their heads and taste what the poet feels, sees, and thinks.
Two major women poets that are in the inner ring of American feminist poets are Muriel Ruckeyser and Adrienne Rich. Though their poetry may be different in content, many of their messages are the same: we need to be heard. Ruckeyser?s ?The Book of the Dead? describes conditions and feelings of the Gauley Bridge tragedy through actual courtroom testimonies to words from actual citizens of the town. Adrienne Rich?s ?Twenty-one Love Poems? describes in many ways, her love of her companion as well as their struggles and times together."
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Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and "Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman", 2000.
An examination of the author's feminism and the application of her ideas from non-fictional "Vindication" to fictional Maria and her family in late 18th century England.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 2 sources, $ 87.95
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"This study will apply the ideas from Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to its fictional companion Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, showing how the ideas in Vindication are embedded in Maria. Essentially, Vindication argues that the inferior position of women in British society in the late 18th century is due not to any innate defect or weakness in women, but rather to the fact that men have the power to define and shape relationships, to make the laws, to own the property, and to decide the destiny of the genders socially, economically, and politically. The author does not absolve women of their responsibility for this situation. She first acknowledges the natural physical strength which men have over women, then adds:
But not content with this natural pre-eminence, men..."
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"Nisa", 2002.
This paper reviews the book "Nisa - The Life and Words of a Kung Woman" by Marjorie Shostak.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper emphsizes Shostak's methodology and approach in her work.
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French Feminism - Woman in Language, 2004.
A discussion on how the political and theoretical work of French feminists has been much misunderstood owing to the reader?s failure to distinguish between their use of the terms ?feminine?, ?woman? and ?women?.
3,576 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 100.95
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This paper begins with an overview of the problems facing feminist theorists regarding terminology, such as the persistent risk of 'essentializing' woman's culturally specific situation into an immutable truth. It then discusses Kristeva's conception of the culturally and temporally specific woman in "Le Temps Des Femmes" (Women's Time) and compares it with Cixous' work in 'La Jeune Mee' (The Newly Born Woman) in terms of the theorists' similar approaches to the constructed, 'symbolic' woman. It then looks briefy at Simone Beauvoir's early work, "Le Deuxieme Sexe" (The Second Sex), adding her conception of ontology as a perpetual state of becoming and political analysis of woman's situation to the constructivist debate. Finally, it examines Irigaray's more post-structuralist work (including "Speculum" and "Ce Sexe Qui N'en Est Pas Un") in order to discuss the further complication of housing the material aspect of woman within langage.
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"Kristeva?s thought on feminism provides a useful point of departure for a discussion of how a useful feminist understanding of the term woman, especially if taken from an ?essentialist? point of view, is far from simple. In her 1982 essay Le temps des femmes , Kristeva postulates that the concept of ?woman? desiring men and desired by them is created in the symbolic by the concept of desire founded on a lack with the penis as its major referent. She believes that the ?meaning? of the woman object, the female body only exists in the symbolic and that any attempt to deny, or re-traverse the separation between this symbolic nature and something contained within the physical nature of ?woman? merely magnifies this separation and perpetuates the myth which allows oppression to occur."
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The Muslim Woman, 2006.
This paper analyzes the culture of Islam, its effect on women and the recent emergence of various women's organizations that deal with specific issues relevant to Muslim women.
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines the various Muslim cultures and their attitudes towards women. Women in Afghanistan suffer from human rights abuses, females are not allowed to work, they receive no education and are often denied health care services. This paper discusses the numerous Muslim women's organizations that have emerged around the world. These organizations have active women participants and deal specifically with issues of relevance to women. Many Muslim women are critical of the ideals of equality formulated in the western world, and question the values of sexual equality. The writer of this paper also delves into the use of the veil which is the hallmark of Islamist women worldwide. Once seen as a symbol of oppression and backwardness in the discourse of colonial domination, the veil was given up by most upper class and middle-class Muslim women in the early part of the 20th century. However, it has recently made a global comeback with the Islamic revival. Islamist discourse portrays a contradictory attitude towards gender. There are still Islamic condoned practices and institutions, which gender activists find difficult to explain and reinterpret. For example, even the most committed gender activists have difficulties in explaining the issue of polygamy.
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"Many Muslim women are critical of the ideals of equality formulated in the Western liberation paradigms. They ask whether 'sexual equality' is a good thing after all. Islamist women seem to have opted for complementarity of the sexes and strictly defined gender roles. Many non-Islamist women feel the Islamist 'return to Islam' to be regressive and backward. These non-Islamist women have internalized the popular media image of 'fundamentalism' as being fanatical, irrational, anti-modem and misogynistic. So, is Islamism always opposed to women's rights and autonomy? Does it deny women educational and employment opportunities? Have the movements succeeded in making their 'ideal Muslim woman' (the home-making, self-sacrificing mother and wife) a reality?"
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Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior", 2005.
Examines Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional book "The Woman Warrior", especially the first chapter 'No Name Woman'.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that Wendy Ho scrutinizes Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior" in her essay, "Mother Daughter Writing and the Politics of Race and Sex in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior". The author points out that Ho shows how, in this book, especially the first chapter 'No Name Woman', the various gender and racial confines in Kingston's life affect her relationship with her mother and Kingston's own identity formation. The paper also relates the way that Ho believes that the process of story telling in 'No Name Woman' helps free Kingston to break the oppressions of both her Chinese culture and the patriarchal system in which she lived.
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"Through the story of her aunt, Kingston's mother warns her daughter "now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful." This quote exemplifies Ho's point that those in the Chinese society were especially fearful of women appearing to masculine, or at least, not appearing feminine; the survival of Chinese life depended on the maintenance of these strict roles."
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Interview with Middle-Aged Woman, 2006.
An interview with a middle-aged woman which applies various sociological theories to the woman.
1,354 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper provides a summary of an interview with a middle-aged American woman. It looks at different theories by Piaget, Erikson and Freud to examine the woman's behavior and social awareness.
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"In examining these issues, I decided to take the interview a step further and see if I could support these conclusions with an understanding of Erik Erikson's psychosocial studies. According to Erikson, each individual passes through eight developmental stages ("psychosocial stages"). Each stage is characterized by a different psychological "crisis," which must be resolved by the individual before the individual can move on to the next stage. If the person copes with a particular crisis in a maladaptive manner, the outcome will be more struggles with that issue later in life. To Erikson, the sequence of the stages are set by nature. It is within the set limits that nurture works its ways."
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Origins of New English Words, 2002.
This paper is a research project that studies recent additions to the English language, the word formation processes, and the general subject areas to which these new words belong.
970 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper reports that, to get a representative sample of new words, all 101 entries in the T, U, and V sections of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words, published in 1997, were used as a sample. The author states that the sample reveals a very low degree of borrowing from other languages; instead, internal word formation processes, such as compounding, semantic change, derivation, and abbreviation are used to form the new words. The paper concludes that, as long as English is a dominant global language, it is unlikely that this trend towards internal coinage in favor of borrowing will change.
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"Instead, compounding was used to form the majority (40%) of the new words in the sample. These were often adjective-noun or noun-noun compounds such as ?tight building syndrome? and ?theme park?. This process produces words that are usually self-evident in a simple, logical manner, and it is hardly surprising that it is as frequently used in the formation of new words today as it has been throughout the history of the language.Derivation processes were used to form about 12% of the sample. As well as existing affixes being attached to existing words (?tankie?), a number of new prefixes and suffixes such as ?-ware? and ?techno-? were attached to pre-existing words to create new lexical items (?technobabble?)."
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J. Joseph's "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple", 2005.
This paper explores the concept of 'preminiscence' in aging women's poetry by examining a famous poem about the coming of old age, J. Joseph's "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" (aka "Warning").
2,655 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper explains that 'preminiscence', the process of projecting the future, is important to the process of aging, which implies that, on the basis of past experience, women shape their futures. The author points out that, in "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" (AKA "Warning"), the reader learns that aging women, no longer needing to succumb to the temptations of diet aids, beauty products and cosmetic surgery, are released from the tyranny of physical beauty and are free to tap into themselves and rediscover the old feistiness, lying dormant since they were 10 years old. The paper concludes that this poem offers a positive approach to aging and a vista of freedom and possibilities by making the revolutionary statement that aging isn't so bad, after all. Poem included.
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"The collection of women's life histories shows that during her 70s, widowhood is a likely possibility for most women. According to Coyle (1997), "Women on the average live longer than men. Women experience a greater life expectancy than men, and as a result, they comprise the majority of older adults." Widowhood is so common, in fact, that women regard it as something like a rite of passage, and although it is initially a shock and extremely painful for many of them, they do recover and reach a point where they see it as a whole new stage of life."
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The American Woman Suffrage Movement, 2005.
This paper discuses the history of the American woman suffrage movement including the circumstances, their expectations, alliances and strategies.
2,090 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that, for three-quarters of a century, beginning in 1848, American women focused their hopes for liberation and power on the woman suffrage movement's demand for the right to vote. The author points out that despite evidence of male domination in every aspect of American life, women underestimated the strength of patriarchy and genuinely expected enfranchisement to lead to total equality between the sexes. The paper relates that the feminists came to recognize that only the force of the organized power of women themselves was capable of bringing about radical change in the condition of women's lives. The paper concludes that the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote marks the end of the woman suffrage movement; however, the quest for gender equality in America may never be over.
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"In the first half of the 19th century, women worked in more than a hundred industrial occupations (Earnest). There was a steady demand for female workers in textile mills, yet women found themselves in constant and desperate competition for positions. The concept of the inferiority of women barred them from training for more skilled work, and therefore from entering more profitable occupations; it also prevented them from receiving the same pay as a man for similar work. In 1833, one newspaper estimated that women earned only one fourth of men's wages..."
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Culture and the 'Natural' Woman, 2006.
An analysis of the extent to which literature such as John Gregory's "A Father's Legacy to his Daughters" and John Gray's "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" construct a cultural stereotype of the 'natural' woman.
1,998 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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Despite being written over 200 years apart, "A Father's Legacy to his Daughters" and "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" both have a similar agenda - to advise women on how to be more desirable to men. This paper explores exactly how and why this effect is attained and how the consequence of such advice constructs a 'natural' woman who, paradoxically, changes through history to suit the needs of the cultural moment. Finally, the paper refers to Thomas Lacqueur's "Making Sex" to make sense of this cultural phenomenon.
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"In today's more enlightened era, we may expect the 'natural' woman to have been purged from conduct literature. On the contrary, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, published over two hundred years later than A Father's Legacy, continues to attribute women's behaviour to nature, for example, 'an instinctive need to talk about what's bothering them' . His implication here that the female stereotype has evolved according to the needs of survival is characteristic of the pseudo-scientific evidence often cited in conduct literature. In reality it is completely unfounded, and, what is more, highly improbable. In his space travel analogy, he makes an even more surprising claim: 'though from different worlds, they [men and women] reveled in their differences' (p. 9)."
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