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The Suffragettes, 2002.
An overview of the woman feminist movements in Great Britain and America during 1900-1914.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the woman's feminist movements that occurred in Great Britain and in America during 1900-1914. This paper will discuss some of the women who participated in these movements and what they did. By analyzing what these woman did, on the literary and suffrage fronts, this paper will find the source of influence and power in their times.
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Women's Suffrage in Great Britain, 2000.
An examination of the role of suffragettes in thefight for the vote which was won in 1918 including political and social background, class issues, WWI, controversial tactics, fasts and leadership.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 11 sources, $ 71.95
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"Suffragettes and The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain
This research paper discusses the role of the suffragettes in the movement to enfranchise women in Great Britain. The suffragettes were members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) which was founded in 1903 and which during the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 engaged in more militant tactics which distinguished them from most other women suffragists. Many of the activities of the suffragettes evoked public controversy and produced some of the most colorful events on the Edwardian scene in Britain. Even today, passions have not entirely cooled which is evident in the exaggerated claims and assertions made by partisans on both sides.
The thesis of this essay is that the ultimate granting of..."
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Jean Rhys, 2005.
A discussion regarding the work of Jean Rhys and the nature of the early 20th century.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses how with the first quarter of the twentieth century upon the people of the world, it would have seemed to be a blessed and exciting time for the fairer sex. Starlets such as Clara Bow graced the silver screen, entertaining millions of theater-goers. The suffragettes of so many unfair years finally had seen their toil bear fruit with America's constitutional amendment allowing women to vote. And, according to the paper, writers such as Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein blazed literary trails for women and men to follow as they helped create the movement known as modernism. Yet, times were still not completely fair and life was not totally egalitarian, as far as females were concerned. Women might have attained some semblance of equality, in the arts and at the polling place, but economics was still the realm of man.
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The History of the 1920?s, 2001.
This paper is a brief and informative overview of the decade the 1920's.
930 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses the history of the 1920?s, a colorful era of tycoons, gangsters, bohemians and inventors. Areas covered include the arts, news and politics, science and humanities, business and industry, society fads and sports. It details the political situation in the world as well as the United States, including a discussion of the suffragettes.
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"The 1920?s are commonly referred to as the ?Roaring Twenties?, an appropriate title for a decade that did indeed roar out of the Victorian Era. Gone were the corsets and up went the skirt hems as flapper girls bared their legs and speakeasies with bathtub gin dominated the nightlife. Tycoons became America?s royalties while bohemian lifestyles bore the twentieth century?s most influential era of art and literature. Inventions brought us into the modern age of convenience and history making events.
The twenties began with a serious but short-lived post-war recession, following World War 1. Yet, by the mid-twenties, business and industry had created legends that have become household names: J. C. Penny (the department store chain), William Proctor of Proctor and Gamble, Howard Hughes, Charles Merrill, George Eastman of Eastman-Kodak, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, William Randolph Hearst, Harvey Firestone (Firestone Tires), Henry Ford (Ford Motor Co.), Clarence Birdseye (Birdseye frozen foods), Charles Walgreen (Walgreen?s Drug Store), and Sir Thomas Lipton (Lipton Tea Co.). With the industry boom came the ?installment plan?, allowing customers to buy on credit, thus causing goods consumption to climb. The business world looked safe and stock speculation gave the market record highs. But speculative stock purchases in an unregulated market allowed for unethical business practices, and by October 29, 1929, the market hit bottom and fortunes were lost overnight. This day is called ?Black Tuesday?. "
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The Struggle for Women?s Rights, 2004.
A discussion of the history of the struggle for women's rights in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
1,312 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at the main players in the fight for gender equality at the turn of the last century. It mentions key events and significant achievements of these suffragettes who fought their right to vote, to own property, and to assume leadership positions. It also looks at the establishment of the first feminist movements.
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"On July 13, 1848, the Women?s Rights Movement began (Degler, 1980). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a housewife and mother, talked about the status of women during a tea with four female friends. Stanton talked about her dissatisfaction with the limitations placed on women under America's new democracy, asking her friends to think about why women did not enjoy the same freedom as men, despite the fact that they had taken equal risks during the American Revolution (Degler, p. 96). Stanton and her friends agreed that the new republic would be better if women could take on greater roles in society. The women developed a plan to change things."
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"The Toilet of Venus" (1647-51) by Diego Velasquez, 2006.
This paper discusses the gender construction in the painting "The Toilet of Venus" ("The Rokeby Venus") (1647-51) by Diego Velasquez.
2,765 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 82.95
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This paper explains that Diego Velazquez's "Toilet of Venus", popularly known as "The Rokeby Venus", created a great deal of controversy in the early 20th century. The author points out that, while the artist himself was inspired to create this artwork based on socially acceptable views of women at the time and while it could be featured today in any reputable museum without causing so much as a blink by even the most conservative audience, these perceptions tend to change over time. The paper relates that the gender construction developed by this work of art was deemed sufficiently exploitative that military female activists, known as suffragettes, targeted it for destruction because of its lurid portrayal of the nude female form and its suggestive qualities. The paper includes a picture of the painting and several long quotations, many of which are embedded in the text.
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Review and Discussion
Background and Overview.
Historical Setting and Social Transitions.
Treatment of Gender Construction in Valezquez's "The Rokeby Venus."
Figure 1. Velazquez, "The Rokeby Venus".
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"According to Bartley (2003), the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst, her daughters and some friends to campaign for votes for women. ... The suffragettes as the WSPU members were called, engaged in a wide range of activities that targeted existing gender disparities, including chaining themselves to railings, writing "Votes for Women" with acid on golf courses that were all-male, disrupted the postal service, verbally and physically attacked members of parliament, put graffiti on government buildings and even church walls and broke windows as well as attacking specific works of art in public galleries and burnt down buildings."
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Why are so Few Women Participating in Politics, 2008.
An overview of women's participation in the world of politics.
2,338 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper looks at the issue of women participating in politics and argues that the suffragettes had it the wrong way around as the fact of women being able to vote did not suffice to bring about gender equity in society. This author explains the necessity to change society radically, from its ideological foundations upwards, which will result in an equalization of material conditions for the sexes, and in turn, manifest as equivalent levels of political participation.
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"It is necessary to preface this argument with an important caveat, so that we are not working from a basis of simplistic over-generalizations. The first thing that should be borne in mind is that globally, levels of female participation vary. As noted by Oyewumi (2005):
The worldwide ... male dominance in all spheres of human endeavour is normally negatively correlated with women's participation in politics. The higher the level of male dominance in society, the lower women's participation in politics. Put another way, it is assumed that in any given society, the more equal ... women are to men, the greater their political participation, and the greater their political participation the more equal they are. (p. 1)
Oyewumi (2005) concedes that this is a chicken and egg situation, but argues that improved material conditions for women (such as more access to education) will lead to greater political participation. However, many societies in Africa still incorporate vast differences in material conditions for men and women. Accordingly, Oyewumi (2005) notes that the level of female participation in politics in Africa tends to be low, with some notable exceptions. While this provides the basis for a sociological or materialist explanation of low participation by women in politics in Africa, it fails to adequately account for the low participation of women in politics in the Global North. While full equality has yet to be achieved, the fact is that many doors are open to women, that were never open before. How then do we account for this apparent anomaly?"
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Traditional Gender Roles, 2007.
This paper analyzes when changes have occurred in traditional gender roles.
1,027 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper reveals that in times of crisis, or in unusual circumstances, traditional gender roles are often ignored or relaxed. The paper illustrates this phenomenon by looking at the Suffragette Movement of the First World War era, the Second World War and the Women's Rights Movement of the nineteen-sixties and nineteen-seventies.
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"The Suffragette Movement of the early twentieth century, which culminated in American women winning the right to vote, had been slowly gaining support among women for decades, but little progress was made until the First World War. This global conflict swept away traditional beliefs and values, and produced a brief era of idealism and liberalism. Millions of American women challenged prevailing attitudes about gender roles and rejected the centuries-old conviction that they should play no role in politics or government simply because they were women. (Collins 304-305)"
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The "Woman Question" in Pre-War Britain, 2006.
A discussion regarding the women's movement in the early 20th century.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 5 sources, $ 106.95
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This essay explores the manifestation of modernity with reference to the women's movement in the first decade of the twentieth century as represented in the fiction and criticism of leading British Modernist Ford Maddox Ford. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the relationship between the early women's rights movement and modernity, and follows on with a review of Ford's career to highlight his central role in Modernism. This essay mainly focuses upon Ford s representation of the 'Woman Question' and in particular the suffragette movement in his critical and fictional work.
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"Ford Madox Ford, Modernism, and the "Woman Question" in Pre-War Britain Introduction This essay will explore the manifestation of "modernity" with reference to the women's movement in the first decade of the twentieth century, as represented in the fiction and criticism of leading British Modernist Ford Madox Ford. Beginning with a brief discussion of the relationship between the early women's rights movement and modernity followed by a review of Ford's career to highlight his central role in Modernism, the bulk of this essay will focus upon Ford's representation of the "Woman Question" and, in particular, the suffragette movement in his critical and fictional work. "
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Have the Roles of Women Improved over the 20th Century in Britain?, 2000.
A paper that argues that conditions for British women have improved greatly during the 20th Century.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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The author of the paper argues that the twentieth century has seen significant improvements for women in Britain. The issues and events mentioned in support of this are the Suffragette Movement, the two world wars, the decline of industry and the freedom given to women in all spheres of society.
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"By the end of the twentieth century women can now go into virtually any job they want, they can serve in frontline armed forces, become doctors, scientists, editors, managers and politicians. In the year 2000, 1 in 5 women earn more than their working partner and on average women earn 75% of a male workers hourly wage. In some professions women still say there is a ?glass ceiling? but in time, through the continuing change of peoples attitudes there will be an equal playing field. All this has been made possible because women now have choice, events and people throughout the century have made this possible, from Emmeline Pankhurst?s militant tactics to mass employment for women during two world wars." .
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Women's Social and Economic Rights, 2005.
A review of the history of women's social and economic rights.
810 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the history of feminism, the suffragette movement and women's social and economic rights. According to the paper, feminism did not start in one place or country, but coincidentally, a lot of women from various countries around the world fought for their rights as and equal and rightful members of the society.
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"This feminism started not on one place or country, but coincidentally, a lot of women from various countries around the world fought for their rights as and equal and rightful members of the society. Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the founders of the suffragette movement and aimed to reveal the institutional sexism in British society, forming the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Often the repeated jailing for forms of activism that broke the law, particularly property destruction, inspired members went on hunger strikes. Due to the resultant force-feeding that was the practice, these members became very ill, serving to draw attention to the brutality of the legal system at that time. In an attempt to solve this the government introduced a bill that became known as the Cat and Mouse Act, which allowed women to be released when they starved themselves to dangerous levels, then to be re-arrested later. (www.wikipedia.com/feminism/ , 2005)."
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