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Papers On Gender & Society
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'The Day I Learned to Recognize People Of The Opposite Sex As Equals'
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This 5 page essay recounts the fictional story of a boy discovering that girls could be 'real' people, too. He even discovers that they can do some things as well as he can . . . and better.
Filename: Equalsex.wps
“A Doll’s House,” “The Story of an Hour,” and “The Storm”
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A 5 page paper which
compares and contrasts the stories “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen and “The Story of
an Hour” and “The Storm” by Kate Chopin. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAdollhr.rtf
“A Midwife’s Tale” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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A 6 page paper which examines Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s work “A Midwife’s Tale” as it relates to society and women in society during the time of Martha Ballard. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAmidtha.rtf
“A Midwife’s Tale”: Gender Separation as Revealed in the Diary of Martha Ballard
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A 5 page review of this turn of the nineteenth century diary written by a midwife in Hallowell Maine. The author of this paper concentrates upon the rare insight the diary provides into such aspects of everyday life as which jobs men were expected to perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPmidwf2.rtf
“Affirmative Action”
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A paper which looks at the way in which the policies related to affirmative action have been developed, and the social and cultural issues which gave rise to the need for positive discrimination in the first instance. The paper also assesses how effective affirmative action has been, and whether it has achieved its stated aims of reducing disadvantage and discrimination.
Bibliography lists 3 sources
Filename: JLassertaction.wps
“Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835”: A Review of the Book by Theda Perdue
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A 5 page overview of the key concepts presented in this 1999 publication. This paper contends that is a much needed treatise on gender issues which have been so frequently overlooked by the world’s predominantly white male anthropologists and historians. A particular emphasis is placed on examining a woman’s role in regard to the family, her husband, and her male relatives on her mother’s side of the family in regard to child rearing. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPnaChWm.rtf
“Chicana feminism”
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A paper which looks at the way in which Chicana feminism deals with the issues of gender inequality, both in Mexican culture and in society as a whole, and considers the other issues such as racial discrimination which they have had to face in their struggle to achieve equal cultural recognition in a multi-ethnic society.
Filename: JLchicana.wps
“Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century”: A Review of the Book by Rosalind Rosenberg
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A 3 page review of Rosenberg’s extensive review of women’s plight in the twentieth century. Rosenberg relates this plight to the complexity of factors which have served to keep women subdued throughout history. Not only are women’s lives divided between their relationships with men in their world, however, they are also divided between domestic and paid labor and numerous other components of modern life and even between themselves. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPwmLive.rtf
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
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An eight page paper which looks at the achievements of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was instrumental in campaigning for women’s suffrage in the USA, and the way that her life and works influenced various aspects of American society both at the time and subsequently.
Bibliography lists 3 sources
Filename: JLStanton.rtf
“Gender Disruption in Macbeth and Twelfth Night”
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An eight page paper which looks at the way in which gender disruption is treated in Macbeth and Twelfth Night, in terms of the importance of gender identity in Elizabethan society and the differing perspectives on gender roles which are exemplified in the two plays.
Bibliography lists 9 sources
Filename: JLmacbethgender.wps
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