The Women of Greece: A Transition from Ancient Power to Classical Subservience Women's conquest for political and social freedom is a battle that has gone on for centuries. Perhaps the breaking point in women's liberation was the Women's Movement of the 1900's, which encouraged women a...

Kate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800's. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of...

Women in Transitional WorldsIn a world where a woman's sphere was defined by their duties of motherhood, child-rearing, and homemaking; the beginnings of industrialization posed specific concerns on the impact that factory work would have on family life, even more specifically on women. The ninete...

Introduction ".. so much energy has been expended by Muslim men and then Muslim women to remove the veil and by others to affirm or restore it .." (Ahmed 167). This paper explores these efforts in two specific stages: the first and the lastthirds of the twentieth century. ...

The vision of hysterical women in "The Yellow Wallpaper"Inherited ideology has traditionally constructed men as more susceptible to hold the power in our society. Women have been treated as second class citizens with neither the legal rights nor the respect of their ma...