Birth and Motherhood According to Davies and Gowdy:
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This 3 page paper examines the role that birth and motherhood play in Barbara Gowdy's, "Falling Angel" and Robertson Davies', "Fifth Business". This paper compares and contrasts the very different views of the authors on these issues. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Black Feminism: Overcoming the Matrix of Domination with Knowledge
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A 5 page contention that there has been a paradigmatic shift in Black women’s understanding of the domination which they have endured, both on the basis of their gender and on the basis of their race and socioeconomic class. The increase in knowledge among black women regarding the matrix of domination has allowed them to resist domination and indeed to work within the existing matrix in their search for equal footing. Black women have become empowered with knowledge. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Black Women Playwrights
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This 10 page paper explores the female roles in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raison In The Sun and Alice Childress' Trouble In Mind from the perspective of how they confront stereotypes and sexist behaviors. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Bronte's Jane Eyre: Subtle Rebellion
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This 5 page paper argues that in the writing of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte is seen to oppose the rules of the patriarchal society. She does so both in her representation of Jane's subtle rebellion and Bertha's more obvious struggle against the confines of social conformity. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Camille Paglia
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This 6 page report discusses Camille Paglia, an undeniably controversial woman. As a humanities and media studies professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Paglia is known for her remarkable intellect, her scathing criticism, and her outspokenness. She makes it clear that she has an opinion on virtually everything and if she does not have an opinion on something, it is clearly beneath her notice. In her tirades against feminist puritans and academic stagnation, she generates reactions which are never indifferent and generally as diverse as her own opinions. She has been both adored and vilified. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Canadian Health Care / Womens' Issues -- Today and Tomorrow
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A 7 page research paper on the current status of the universal health care program in Canada, as well as predictions on how well it will have survived the first decades of the twenty-first century. Particular emphasis is laid on women's health funding, which now is threatened to some degree by budget cuts. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Canadian Professions and Patriarchy
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A 4 page review of the gender bias that continues to characterize the Canadian workplace. Using the examples of law enforcement and accounting, this paper contends that this bias results in women being subjugated under men. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Caring for the Children of Employees
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4 pages discussing trends towards greater corporate interests in providing for the care of their employees' children. (child care, policies, laws, cyber-commuting etc;) Includes 2 FREE demographic pie charts and bibliography listing 4 sources.
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Carol Lakey Hess’ “Caretakers of Our Common House”: Gender Socialization and Women and Conversational Education (Chapter 6)
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This is a 6 page paper discussing Hess’ “Caretakers of Our Common House”. Carol Lakey Hess’ “Caretakers of Our Common House: Women’s Development in Communities of Faith” studies not only areas connected with faith, theology and women’s experience but also the various aspects in the difference of female socialization in regards to “caring and connection” and how this relates to theological interpretation. The idea of the practice of faith within communities relates to Hess’ argument that separation and connection is obtained through “hard dialogues and deep connections” in which girls and women care be nurtured to be caretakers of their “own house” (self) as well as the “common house” (the community of faith). Women, through conversational education and strong leadership in the religious community can overcome the generations of gender socialization which have largely led to men as powerful and women as servile, caring, and supportive which has resulted in women “losing themselves” to societal roles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Cary Churchill and Sylvia Plath: Similar Yet Different Feminists Messages in Literature
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An 8 page examination of Plath’s “The Bell Jar” and Churchill’s “Top Girl” and the underlying societal messages. The author of this paper contends that each of these women’s work is largely directed at the injustices of a patriarchal society. The manner in which these women deal with those injustices, however, vary considerably. Each utilizes their personal experiences to form the basis for political critique. While Plath does so from the individualist perspective, however, Churchill approaches said change from a societal standpoint. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Case Study of Rena Graybeal: Gerontology Theories of Disengagement and Activity
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This is an 11 page paper discussing a case study of an elderly woman in regards to the gerontology theories of disengagement and activity. A case study of an elderly woman, Rena Graybeal, consists of two aspects: part one, her biography which explores her biographical details, education, social supports, retirement, finances, politics, religion, relationships and health status; and, part two, her life in relation to the gerontology theories of disengagement and activity. The disengagement theory and the activity theory present two contrasting concepts of what functional roles older individuals play in society: disengagement, in which older individuals gradual disengage themselves from activities in society in order to allow for the younger generations which leads to life satisfaction; and activity, in which older individuals continue to maintain high activity levels in order to continue to contribute to society which leads to life satisfaction. Upon reviewing Rena Graybeal’s biography and current life, it becomes obvious to readers that Rena has always had and continues to have an active life consistent with the activity theory. Rena continues to contribute to this generation and the next, is aware of political, environmental and social issues, and maintains an open-mind in regards to religion, politics, family and other important components which makes her a functional member of society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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