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Power and Subjugation, 2004.
An analysis of Emily Ahern?s article, entitled ?The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women?.
859 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper analyzes Ahern?s article in terms of the main theme, which is how, through subjugation, society disenfranchises women because of the potential power and great influence that they wield over the society. This stance is supported by Ahern?s article and two articles discussing the same theme in Gary Seaman's ?The Sexual Politics of Karmic Retribution? and Margery Wolf's ?The Woman Who Didn?t Become a Shaman?.
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"Ahern, through the article, discusses three important facets that illustrate women oppression in the Chinese society: physical/natural/biological image of women, social reasons supporting the prevailing women image, and response of the people to justify norms that are implemented against women. In ?The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women,? images of women in their society connotes a negative idea, portraying them as dirty and undesirable in their community because of one important woman characteristic that men do not have: blood released through menstruation and during birth-giving. According to Ahern, ?[i]n Chinese society women are regarded as both ritually unclean and dangerously powerful? bodily effluvia associated exclusively with women are unclean: menstrual blood and postpartum discharge?? (269-270). Because of these beliefs, women in Chinese society are considered unclean and powerful, opposing qualities that reflect the society?s fear in women. This is because through women, society, especially men, can see that they have the power to create and maintain social ties with other people, which men perceive as women?s way in reversing the social order in the society, i.e., men as the outcasts and women are put in a higher, more dignified, and desirable status and role in the society."
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The Subjugation of Women, 2007.
This paper analyzes the domination of language in "The Handmaid's Tale," by Margaret Atwood.
1,067 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper describes the setting of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale" where women are prevented from voting in elections and even from reading or writing. The paper shows how within Gilead itself, Atwood's fictional setting, both language and its repression are continually and deliberately used to maintain power over the women. Atwood's Gilead has its own new vocabulary, inflected with words, phrases and word-usages designed to reinforce the skewed attitudes and values of the established order. The paper's analysis illustrates how a loss of linguistic freedoms leads easily to the repression and loss of other freedoms as well.
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"In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood describes the nightmarish potential of a complete reversal of all of the progress in women's rights made during the 1960's and 1970's women's rights movement. Within Atwood's fictional setting, Gilead, right-wing religious extremists seize power, and then based their new leadership on a "return to traditional values", e.g., male hegemony over women by men. Abortion is now illegal again; as is birth control."
"Women are prevented from voting in elections, and even from either reading or writing anymore. Women are instead, again, quite simply, now present for the subjugation by, and the pleasure of men."
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Colonial Powers and How They Break the Spirit, 2004.
A look at the issue of colonial powers in "Discourse on Colonialism" by Aime Cesaire and "Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood" by Richard Kim.
789 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses how the writings describe different methods used by foreign or colonial powers to break the spirit of colonized peoples. It examines what these methods are and also looks at their effects. It tells how colonizers have often attempted to control and subjugate their colonies, but in the end, their dominance usually backfires, and the subjugated rise up to fight for their freedom and their own culture.
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"Colonialism is an antiquated idea that has nearly disappeared, but not so long ago it was still an accepted and even celebrated way for strong countries to vanquish the weak. Author Aime Cesaire called the practice "a receptacle into which there flow all the dirty waters of history" (Cesaire 45), and his description is quite apt, considering the sufferings most colonized subjects discuss after they have gained their freedom, and their sufferings were certainly not centered only on violence. The colonization of unwilling subjects, such as Japan's colonization of Korea certainly entails violence, but there are much more subtle ways to bend the colonials to the whims of the aggressors, as Kim's book poignantly illustrates. For example, the Japanese begin indoctrinating the young Koreans early by hanging the Japanese flag and propaganda slogans in their elementary school classrooms (Kim 31). Later, the Japanese break the spirit of the Koreans by taking what is theirs, and leaving them with little."
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Castes and Women in Hinduism, 2006.
A paper discussing the subjugation of lower caste members and women in the Hindu religion.
1,081 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses the power of the Hindu religion in subjugating lower castes and women and asserts that, even if supposedly divinely decreed, this subjugation is not right and contradicts the notion of universal human rights.
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"The caste system, as determined by Hinduism, first appeared in the Upanishads and was absorbed into Indian society around 500 BC. Basically, the caste system is used to separate all individuals in Indian society into separate, strictly regimented castes. The four castes are Brahmins, or priests, Kshatriyas, or warriors, Vaisyas, or producers, and Shudras, or servants. Below even the Shudras are outcastes, which included the untouchables. This last, unfortunate group consisted of the lowest, most unclean, most hopeless members of Indian society, if they could even be called members. Indeed, before walking down a street, they were required to announce their presence so others could move away and avoid being supposedly defiled by these untouchables."
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Contemporary Irish Women Writers, 2008.
This paper compares Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's "Midwife to the Fairies" and Mary Dorcey's "The Husband", which both challenge the Irish sensibilities that have contributed to the repression and subjugation of Irish women.
2,430 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper explores how how two contemporary Irish female writers, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne and Mary Dorcey, in two structurally and stylistically different short stories, "Midwife to the Fairies" and "The Husband" (respectively), challenge the Irish sensibilities regarding the continued subjugation of women and repression of female sexuality through ignorance and intolerance. The paper then discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and proposes which is more effective, critically.
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"Her self-centeredness, however, is far outweighed by her passivity in the face of a crisis and a tragedy waiting to happen. She first is shown to be passive in her decision to become a midwife: "My mother did it before me and her mother before her" (33). Mary shows herself to do what is traditional to do--she doesn't challenge the status quo. But her passivity has more grievous consequences when she chooses not to act and save a baby girl after delivering her into bleak circumstances."
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"Mexico Profundo", 2004.
An examination of Bonfil Batalla's "Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization" in relation to issues of gender and power in Mexico.
3,058 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses how Bonfil Batalla writes passionately about the abuses of power within Mexico in his "Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization". It looks at how beginning with the colonization by Spain and enduring until the present, the disempowerment of the group that came to be identified as Indian has lead to an internal struggle between the imaginary Mexico and the Mexico Profundo. It explores how the misuse of power physically and psychologically has been utilized to subjugate the Mexico Profundo and to attempt to destroy what is uniquely theirs. It also shows how Batalla writes that now at the time of the collapse of the civilization project envisioned by the imaginary Mexico, an opening exists for readjusting the power balances and forging ahead with the tremendous resources available within Mexico.
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"Within the Mayan community of the Chamulas explored by Rosenbaum (1993), they have decided to have the elders of the community elect officials for their own council from those who have had positions on religious cargos and although the state?s council has final authority the Chamula?s council is able to make decisions in alignment with their value system. The Chamulas have developed a very strong cargo system and have found a way to empower themselves regarding civic politics and, thereby, have been able to feel the penetration of imaginary Mexico less than other Indian communities. Their cargo system is well structured, so although most of the people cannot afford a cargo, they can participate as assistants expanding those participating to about a thousand and, thereby, confirming the communal activity that reaffirms the Mesoamerican culture."
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Japanese Medieval Culture and Women, 2005.
Three essays on different aspects of medieval Japanese culture and the subjugation of women.
2,760 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This paper examines three essays on different aspects of medieval Japanese culture that use legends to subjugate women - the blood pool hell to which all women are damned by virtue of their biology, the Five Obstructions which are the five states of enlightenment which women cannot achieve after death because of the inferiority of their gender, and the use of images of women being transformed into snakes and dragons to tell stories about women's threats to men.
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"This paper considers the positive and negative effects of Buddhism for women in the medieval and early Edo periods through the introduction oft he apocryphal text known as the Blood Pool Hell Sutra. The rise of popularity of the sutra was connected to ..."
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International Relations in East Asia, 2005.
An analysis of whether China can challenge U.S. power relations in East Asia.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 75.95
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This paper assesses the nature of the relationship between China and the international community. It looks at what is expected of China in the coming years by the U.S.A. what China can expect from itself. It discusses whether China will eventually subjugate itself to international norms or whether they will challenge the existing international system, which is dominated by United States principles. It also examines the power the United States wields over China and how effective it is. Examples of Chinese challenges to U.S. power relations are shown as well as examples of U.S. attempts at controlling China's destiny.
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"'The People's Republic of China (PRC) is more integrated into, and more cooperative within, regional and global political and economic systems than ever in its history.' Despite this, there is considerable apprehension coming from the United States as to what the increase in economic, political and military power in China will mean. The question as to whether China is playing by the 'international rules' or, if it is not, whether it will in the medium term, is a continual headache for western politicians. China is now combined with Hong Kong and is significantly integrated with the economy of Taiwan. The economic success of recent years has meant that China has the production capabilities and trade options to become a major superpower."
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Atwood, Margeret "The Handmaid's Tale", 2001.
Discusses what makes novel disturbing incl. fanatical religious right, devaluation & subjugation of women.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"Margaret Atwood?s The Handmaid?s Tale is one of the most frightening books that I have ever read, and it manages to horrify without a single grotesque space alien leaping out of anyone?s intestines or the graphic description of serial murders.
Instead it horrifies because Atwood shows us how easily society can consume itself and how in times of social disease groups that have historically had less power can find themselves with no power at all. Her book frightens not because she gives form to the unimaginable, but because they simply tweaks the world that we already live in to allow us to see how truly terrible it was all along.
The Handmaid?s Tale is told through the viewpoint of an anonymous woman living in some oppressive society of the near future as essentially a slave whose sole function is to bear child.."
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"Land of the Spotted Eagle" by Luther Standing Bear, 2001.
Analysis of Lakota Sioux, relations with white government & subjugation of Lakota culture.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"In the book Land of the Spotted Eagle, Luther Standing Bear offers an analysis of his people, the Lakota Sioux, their relations with the government of the whites, and a strong sense of what it means to be part of a population whose land has been systematically stolen, whose culture and rituals have been denigrated, and whose future is in doubt.
Luther Standing Bear was raised in the traditional Sioux manner. He was away from the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota for sixteen years before returning in 1931, and soon after, he wrote this book. His absence gave him the point of view of both a tribal member and an outsider at one and the same time, for he could see where changes had been made and could compare the way his people lived on the reservation with the way people lived elsewhere. His outside experience coupled..."
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Religion and Patriarchy, 1992.
The evolution of the subjugation of women as an element of Western religion including myth, literature, cultural values and ethical norms.
4,275 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 11 sources, $ 135.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the concept of patriarchal subjugation of women in the light of the evolution of the idea of religion, and to evaluate, with reference to evidence of such concept, the manifestation of the concept in the modern period. The plan of the research will be to set forth nascent or primitive religious concepts that illustrate a prepatriarchal and presubjugation religious ethos, and then to discuss the content and impact of myths that appear to have evolved in a way that either prefigured or declared a patriarchal religious idea that was a significant and decisive departure from primitive religious forms, as well as the manifestation of the post-mythical residue of the shift in religious consciousness in the contemporary world. Finally, as appropriate, reference will be made to the possibility of the emergence and development of..."
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The U.S. and Latin America (1900-1935), 2005.
This paper discusses the commercial subjugation of the nations of Latin America by the United States.
1,485 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that, until the 1940s, Latin America was an economic "free zone" for the U.S., zealously guarded by the Monroe Doctrine, which was established in 1823, at a time when most Latin American nations were first tasting the freedom of their own statehood. The author points out that the determination of the U.S. to control commerce than the completion of the Panama Canal and the seizure of Panamanian lands to form a U.S. Canal Zone is the single most event to demonstrate American exploitation. The paper relates that "Dollar Diplomacy" still exists today; but, the first-third of this century saw a far more one-sided, brazen and opportunistic means of finding legal ways to get economic advantages because American businessmen, in combination with the State Department, looked upon Latin Americans as not trustworthy, not competent and certainly not the equal of the "democratic" Americans.
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"Central America became the domain of agricultural enterprises, such as United Fruit and Standard Fruit Company. They literally "owned" and "ran" Nicaragua and Guatemala. Despite uprisings- the most serious occurred in 1930, where" a dozen Standard Fruit employees were killed, including eight Americans,...and the company begged for American intervention." A naval ship was sent to the scene, but the rebels had already gone. As Uncle Sam has positioned himself as the bringer of democracy to Latin America, so the American companies have followed the diplomats (or even preceded them) in order to have "the whip hand in negotiations with local governments, and the resulting foreign investments have brought fewer and fewer benefits to the host country.""
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Women In The Old Testament, 1987.
Discusses inferiority of females in patriarchal tradition of Jewish narration & heritage. Exmines evil & sin, seduction, body v. spirit, subjugation, impact on Christian values, Semitic myths, wife-mother-harlot images and sexuality.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 6 sources, $ 87.95
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" Men have had every advantage of us in telling
their own story. Education has been theirs in
so much higher degree, the pen has been in their
hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen, Persuasian
In his book, The Art of Loving, philosopher Eric Fromm claimed that the greatest problem with the world today was that for two or three thousand years, mankind has been worshiping the wrong god and pursuing the wrong ideals. Fromm maintained that, when man substituted God for the Great Goddess, he substituted authoritarian for humanistic values. Man's relationship to God (...)"
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Sex Industry in Thailand, 2001.
Focus on subjugation & victimization of women. Context in which sex industry developed incl. Vietnam War, emigration, demographics. History of sex trafficking of Southeast Asian women.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 31.95
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"Introduction
The sex industry in Thailand represents a major social problem in a developing part of the world and contributes to the continued subjugation of women in the region. The trade is fueled by young women migrating from rural to urban regions, often recruited for this very purpose, and also depends on the importation of women from rural regions in nearby countries, notably Burma. The trade has shifted much of the population, as might be expected, and so has also reduced the number of women agricultural workers remaining in rural regions.
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The Vietnam War has direct responsibility for the development of the sex industry in Thailand because during that conflict, U.S. troops used Thailand as a rest and recreation.."
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Women Scorned in Literature, 2006.
A look at the theme of the subversive power of women in seventeenth and eighteenth century texts.
1,223 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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Contrary to assumptions about the position of women before the twentieth century, they were often able to gain power through several devices. This paper looks at how often in seventeenth and eighteenth century texts, woman are seen exerting themselves, verbally sparring on par with men, manipulating their supposed superiors, essentially outwitting them in their own games during a time the modern reader expects to see women subjugated, undereducated and suppressed. The texts examines include Aphra Behn's "The Rover", Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" and Jonathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels".
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"Unlike The Rover, the rage and indignation of a woman scorned cause battle to be fought in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. The mock battle scene at the ombre table sets up the actual battle quite well. Belinda seems to stand tall as Athena when she throws her cards on the table winning the war between the sexes. She is forceful in her moves to call trump and take tricks, but when the real battle begins, the crux of Pope's mock epic, for a moment she wavers. She is helpless until she becomes angry."
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