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Women
The keyword Women is tagged in the following 28 articles.
New York’s 1827 mayoral election was the harbinger for a new era in politics. Tammany Hall—New York’s democratic political machine—suborned thousands of immigrants to vote for the pro-Tammany ticket. With cartloads of Irish in tow, ward leaders... Read Article »
In 1967, Valerie Solanas wrote and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, which called for male gendercide and the creation of a superior, all-female society.[1] This radical manifesto declared that Women must “overthrow the government, eliminate the money system... Read Article »
Since the early 20th century, the feminist movement has made enormous strides to improve the status of female athletes. Prior to the movement’s achievements, female athletes had to play in much poorer facilities, under different rules, and with stricter dress... Read Article »
The prevailing issue of fin-de-siècle France was the increasing autonomy of Women. Independence for Women threatened traditional social and gender roles, and consequently men’s civil power. Margaret and Frances Macdonald embodied this “new woman&... Read Article »
American culture is saturated with messages propagated by mass media. What was originally created for encouraging consumerism is now being promoted to a society that is being consumed by the messages themselves. Mass media is especially harmful to Women because it... Read Article »
Despite the increasing number of states that have ratified binding international human rights treaties, human rights abuses continue unabated. The persistence of rights abuses cast doubt on the efficacy of human rights treaties. This paper empirically examines whether... Read Article »
Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval of the First World War. In a nuanced reiteration of the typical trope of a soldier’s return, Christopher Baldry is dispatched... Read Article »
Christianity has not gained a large number of adepts in China, if compared, for example, with Japan. But Christianity in China, in the late Imperial Era, had a number of particularities. Moreover, Christianity sometimes influenced Chinese Women’s lives but only... Read Article »
Madame de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast and Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride delve into the nature of men and Women and the relationships between them by exploring and analyzing the motifs of wildness and civilization. Thus, Women are presented as the civilizing... Read Article »
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a novel about the human psyche. It is as concerned with man’s ability to descend into madness as it is with his ability to break away from it and triumph over the dark, consuming impulses that threaten to consume his... Read Article »
In the society that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is set in, Women generally are held in a lower social standing than men. As with most societies until relatively recently in history, Women were not allowed to have a significant role in society, other than... Read Article »
Historically, female models in photographic art have depicted an ideological construction of the female body which Women, regardless of stature, ethnicity or class, must conform to. John Berger (1972, p. 46) notes that ‘to be born a woman has been to be born&... Read Article »
Sexism is not unique to Christianity; however, in the Christian religion many of those who identify themselves as Christian fundamentalists are more likely to hold sexist views of Women. Because the scriptures were written during a time in which Women had few rights... Read Article »
The role of Women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods. The primary influence that contributed to these inconstancies was religion. Integration of the two major religions of Japan, Shintoism... Read Article »
Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out with the old and in with the… older.” Cavalier revelries under Charles II regained the notoriety of their pre-Cromwellian... Read Article »
Throughout history has existed a prevalent theme of men and Women being reliant on one another, despite the significant—though changing, and usually artificial—inequalities in areas such as education, career power, and political influence. Marc Antony of... Read Article »
From skimpy skirts to smoldering skivvies, American’s remember the 1960’s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights and strengths of Women. True to American style, the Women’s movement was fought and won boldly and bluntly in the public... Read Article »
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function. Female characters like Safie, Elizabeth, Justine, Margaret and Agatha provide nothing more but a channel of action for the male characters... Read Article »
Mass media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue or group of people. It works both overtly and subconsciously: deciding which issues are important, how to frame those issues, who to... Read Article »
Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the Women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of becoming a famous writer while most of... Read Article »
On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated when their jet was shot down while landing in Kigali. In response to the April killing of the two state presidents, over the next three... Read Article »
“The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal... Read Article »
Nationalism is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as, “loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially: a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed... Read Article »
In her book, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), Cynthia Enloe examines the role militarization plays in Women’s lives. Enloe defines militarization as “a step-by-step process by which a person or a thing gradually... Read Article »
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter about the witches’ prophesies, she attempts to be like a man in order to exude the strength needed to gain additional social... Read Article »
The ability to control one’s sexuality and make informed, responsible decisions about one’s sexual health is a basic human right. The Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, France and Germany protect this right by providing comprehensive sex education in their... Read Article »
Every year, 10-50% of Women suffer intimate partner violence (Bargai, Ben-Shakhar, & Shalev, 2007). It is important to understand what conditions affect these battered Women and how any resultant conditions interact with each other in order to help abused Women... Read Article »
Sex work has long been criticized and stigmatized in our society. While many members of society view sex work as immoral and degrading to Women, I argue that sex work is essentially just work, and that it is not necessarily harmful to Women. Under circumstances in... Read Article »
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