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Sisters of Similarity or Women from another World?, 2002.
A review of Patricia Buckley Ebrey's book, "The Inner Quarters: Marriage and Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period."
1,143 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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The book analyzes and reviews Patricia Buckley Ebrey's book, "The Inner Quarters: Marriage and Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period" which examines the lives of Sung women in relationship to their interactions with their own blood families, their husbands, their husband's families and their own children. The paper also raises several inadequacies of the book.
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"Another problem, or perhaps more an inadequacy of the book, is contained within what could be taken as Ebrey?s thesis statement. She says in the Introduction that she intends to focus on, ?the intersection of women and marriage? (7). While it can be clearly seen from the text that marriage or widowhood was the usual status of women, the book?s decision to exclude accounts of single women is disappointing. However small a percentage, society would have contained women without dowries, divorced women, and women who remain single for religious reasons, such as Buddhist nuns. An exploration into their place in society would have been an interesting contrast."
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"Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills", 2002.
An examination of the book "Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills" by Emily Honig.
1,957 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper contains a critical book review of the title, along with a discussion of the personal value of the book. Emily Honig's book is the story of women who worked in the Shanghai cotton mills from 1919 through 1949, but the paper shows how the story is really about the women themselves, and how they survived the harsh working conditions by creating a sisterhood ? working together to help each other while surviving harsh and intolerable conditions.
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"The author's thesis is stated clearly in the Introduction. She hopes to prove that the women of the Shanghai mills were extremely class conscious, and this class consciousness had to be transformed and eliminated before the women could rise up together and demand reform. She notes, "I began my study by focusing on issues that precede the role of women in the labor movement and in the Chinese revolution: the nature of work, social relations within the workplace, the formation of the working class, and the transformations women underwent as they became members of an urban industrial proletariat" (Honig 2). The author also states her beliefs early in the book, when she notes, "Modern industrial capitalism in twentieth-century China, as in England and the United States a century earlier, was built on the intersection of textile manufacture and female and child labor" (Honig 1). She goes on to elaborate on this assertion throughout the book, exploring the exploitation of women in the mills, and its connection to the Shanghai labor movement. "
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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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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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Heart: The Wilson Sisters, 2006.
A review of the careers, music and stylings of Ann and Nancy Wilson, the sisters behind the women's rock band, Heart.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper studies the lives of Ann and Nancy Wilson, sisters who started their musical careers with a folk background but became leading figures in the rock world with their band Heart. The author traces the women's meteoric careers through a review of their albums. The paper also discusses the band's influences and their influence on the music industry as a whole.
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"The band was founded in 1963 by the group's bassist, Steve Fossen, and by brothers Roger and Mike Fisher from Vancouver, British Columbia. Originally named "the Army," the band later changed its title to "White Heart" and then simply to "Heart" in the early 70s. A romantic involvement between Ann Wilson and Roger Fisher brought the former member into the group. Her sister, Nancy, followed in 1974, through a romantic relationship with Mike Fisher, who at that time was the band's primary sound engineer. Later, Howard Leese and Michael Derosier joined the band as keyboardist and drummer, respectively."
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"Sisters and Strangers", 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949" by Emily Honig.
1,682 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper reviews this interesting historical period through the eyes of the author and contains a critical book review of the title, along with a discussion of the personal value of the book. It shows how the story is really about the women themselves, and how they survived the harsh working conditions by creating a sisterhood ? working together to help each other while surviving harsh and intolerable conditions.
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"The author states her thesis early in the book, when she notes, "Modern industrial capitalism in twentieth-century China, as in England and the United States a century earlier, was built on the intersection of textile manufacture and female and child labor" (Honig 1). She goes on to elaborate on this thesis throughout the book, exploring the exploitation of women in the mills, and its connection to the Shanghai labor movement (Honig 3). Women's jobs were clearly compartmentalized in the mills, and many of the women were little more than girls, who the mangers found easier to control, and earned less money than men. The author interviewed many people who worked in the mills, and one manager remembered, "'Originally most of the assistants in the mills were child workers'" (Honig 51). Women from certain regions also tended to work in certain sections of the mill. For example, Women from Subei often performed tasks that had originally been performed by men, since they were stronger than some of the other workers. The Subei women usually did not work at weaving, which was considered more skilled and detailed than many of the other jobs. Each chapter is constructed to not only allow the reader to understand what the women went through each day in the mills, but also introduce the surroundings, the history, and the sociology of Shanghai that all played into the women's work in the mills. Each observation by the author either makes a point, or moves the book forward, making the reader eager to find out what will happen next, while clearly focusing on the thesis that women and children were the backbone of the industry, and the backbone of change in the end."
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Margaret Weitz's "Sisters in the Resistance", 1999.
A review of Margaret Weitz's book, "Sisters in the Resistance," about women serving in the French resistance during the Second World War, emphasizing their struggles and sacrifices in the face of wartime hardship.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, $ 34.95
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"Margaret Collins Weitz very poignantly illustrates these desires and actions that women in France experienced in her book Sisters in the Resistance. Not only does Weitz substantiate these women's decisions and lifestyles, but also, through a combination of literary narration, she paints the lives of these women for the reader. She, together with these women, illustrates their victories as well as their losses, which lead to their eventual shaping of French history."
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Dubois and Ruiz' "Unequal Sisters", 2007.
This paper reviews the feminist book "Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History", edited by Ellen Carol Dubois and Vicki Ruiz.
1,440 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper explains that Dubois and Ruiz in their book "Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History', which is a compilation of a multiplicity of perspectives of feminist historians of a variety of periods, ethnic groups and racial groups, attempt to ameliorate some of the past oversights of the women's rights movement that denied the equally important components of race and ethnicity in defining many women's lives. The author points out that, for women of color, their struggle to make peace with themselves and with their American identities cannot be fully subsumed into the traditional feminist categories of gender or race. The paper relates that this collection of essays instead argues for a relational understanding of the nature of race and gender, which means that each person is composed of categories, such as male/female, Anglo/Latino, that gain meaning only in the inter-relationship of these categories.
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"The essays include a number of ethnic groups, including African-American, Latina-American, Chicanas, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans in their subject matter. Early on, it becomes clear that the lives of black women in particular were written out the second-wave feminist debate. While many white feminists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Betty Friedan (1963) defined their feminism as an ideology that gave them the intellectual justification to seek work outside the home, most Black women have always worked, either as slaves, as noted by Deborah Gray White's essay on "Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum South" and Jeanne Boydston's "To Earn her Daily Bread"."
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"The Rez Sisters", 2005.
An analysis of Aboriginal women in Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the portrayal of gender in Tomson Highway's award winning play of 1987, "The Rez Sisters". The paper focuses on his revelation of Aboriginal women's strength, intelligence and humour that render Reserve life on Manitoulin Island, sometimes hopeless, but never serious.
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"The Portrayal of Gender in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters, 1988. Tomson Highway (b. 1951) makes use of humour in demonstrating women's reality on the mythical Manitoulin Island reserve of Wasaychigan Hill First Nation. Considerable wit is demonstrated in seven female characters, in a small Aboriginal community, those who are not related having known one another, all their lives. The play opens as Philomena Moosetail is repairing the roof of her cabin, with Pelajia Patchnose, also middle-aged, describes how she wants to go to Toronto, that the reserve has little to offer her. "
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Sisters in Literature, 2002.
This paper analyzes the use of sisters as a literary device in Geraldine Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters, and Christina Rossetti's narrative poem "Goblin Market".
2,670 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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The paper looks at these two works from the middle of the nineteenth century as they use the device of a pair of sisters for exploring the nature of women and expanding their audiences' understanding of women, their capacities, and the limitations placed on them by convention. The paper brings examples from the writing to illustrate this point.
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"As Armstrong puts it, there is deliberate cruelty in the "way in which the fruit is offered as a saleable commodity and arbitrarily withdrawn" so that "it has to be bargained for, but it belongs to a mystified economy to which both girls are inevitably subject" (Armstrong 349). The world of men is, like the invisible world of the goblins, incomprehensible to women and they are forced to accept the bargain on the terms offered by men. Laura gives in to her own desire for pleasure and accepts the terms of the goblins at face value. The seeming gift of fruit that does not have to be paid for, of course, entails a hidden cost that Laura, if she only paid attention to the example of Jeanie, should have understood. But women also lack full and explicit knowledge and thus Jeanie's example, while it is strong enough to motivate Lizzie, does not really satisfy their curiosity which is the motive that, almost as much as greed, compels Laura to go against her sister's common-sense advice."
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"The Rez Sisters", 2001.
An analysis of the themes of community and empowerment in Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters".
2,331 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how through a group of seven native women, Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters" portrays themes of empowerment and community development. It looks at how a group of six native women, all sisters in one way or another, develop from the animosity of bickering "bitches" to a close community, tied together by their gender, circumstances and ancestry. It explores how through their journey to The Biggest Bingo in the World the women are empowered to achieve a common goal, taking responsibility for themselves and for each other.
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"United with a common goal they are then faced with a common problem. Emily points out they "are all welfare cases" and have no money (58,59). They turn to Pelajia, who does have some money, to help (59). Pelajia suggests they apply to the band office to ask the chief for a loan to fund their trip because the winnings could go towards paving the roads and solving all the problems of the band (59). The "grand and ridiculous march" to the band office that encompasses the entire stage, is the women's first surge of communal energy and self-empowerment (60, Pell paper). Again, Nanabush, the spirit of Native Culture, trails merrily along with the women as they march (60). Elated by their newfound empowerment the women are shocked at the chief's refusal (60)."
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"The Magdalene Sisters", 2004.
An analysis of Peter Mullan's 2002 movie, "The Magdalene Sisters".
2,389 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper discusses Peter Mullan's 2002 movie, "The Magdalene Sisters" depicting the dark side of Irish culture, church and history. The paper explains that from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland ran profitable asylums for women. The paper claims that the laundry businesses allowed the convents to earn money while keeping socially scorned women behind bars. The paper contends that far from being a place of spiritual refuge, the Magdalene laundries often became torture houses closely resembling concentration camps. The paper explores how Mullan illustrates that spirituality was completely overrun by cruelty, greed, torture and manipulation. The paper states that the brutality shown on screen reveals a chilling behind-the-scenes glimpse of what actually did occur regularly in Magdalene asylum laundries.
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"The culture that supported such institutions was an inherently sexist one, as many of the interred women committed no offense other than having shamed their families or being attractive. Although a fictionalized account, The Magdalene Sisters shows what mental and physical abuse generally occurred behind the doors of Magdalene asylum laundries. "In fact, there are reports that, according to some survivors, the abuses depicted in The Magdalene Sisters actually fall short of the worst that really happened," (Greydanus). The Magdalene laundries, which were operated by the Sisters of Mercy throughout Ireland, were finally shut down for good in 1996. However, during their century of operation, countless women suffered abuses similar to those depicted on-screen by Scottish writer-director Peter Mullan."
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"The Makioka Sisters", 2002.
A review of Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Makioka Sisters".
1,726 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines how the four sisters in Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Makioka Sisters" are parts of an allegorical account of the decline of Japan's old upper-class merchant families in the face of rising modernism and nationalism. Each of the sisters, largely depending on her age and placement in the family, symbolizes a different aspect of the change in the social order. It looks at how Tanizaki manages to develop these allegorical roles for his principal characters without sacrificing any of their validity or interest as individual beings whose thoughts and actions retain the reader's full attention. It also shows how despite the fact that each sister functions in the allegory in a different way, none of them is a simple character with traditional or modern traits that make it easy to sum up her symbolic meaning in a few words.
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"The principal allegorical function of the sisters begins long before the novel opens, of course, in the simple fact that their father had only daughters to inherit from him. He had also been somewhat careless with money and had greatly reduced what there was to inherit. But even this attitude, which was responsible for the kind of upbringing his daughters had, has an allegorical function in that he had never believed that things could change. Thus, even though the early signs of change must have been everywhere in the first part of the century, his daughters were brought up believing that the pattern of life they knew so well would last forever."
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The Delany Sisters, 2005.
This paper examines the causes for the longevity of the Delany sisters who lived for over 100 years.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper explores the example of New York state's Delany sisters who died in the late 1990s, well over 100 years old and how their lives promised their remarkable longevity. The paper explains that they valued their background, they had the stimulation of succeeding as African-American professional women against the odds and had a spirit of philanthropy with which they were raised. The paper shows how they did not just have interests or jobs; they lived their lives, and were each others' best friends through each chapter. The paper offers notes on spirituality and values as sources of mental stability and inspiration, social relationships, family and having pride in one's accomplishments.
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"This paper discusses the late Delany Sisters, as they have become something of an American institution, in the light of recent models of lifespan development. These models ask us to examine aspects of development and periods of adulthood in stages of young, middle and late, as opposed to earlier models that recognized the shift to adulthood rather than a continuum. (Papalia et al: 2000:6f) One sees in the example of the Delany Sisters that different meanings were attached to different stages of their lives; factors that pertained to their gender, to their African-American background, education, health, their family of origin and a philosophical approach to the world."
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