The 'Smurfette Principle' & Today's Gender-Biased Media
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Nearly three decades after the 'Feminist Movement' and the initiation of the Equal Rights Amendment, much of the entertainment media is still reflecting lower-level roles, even subordinate roles for women. This 4 page essay explores 'The Smurfette Principle' in terms of various preschool television shows. The similarity of today's storylines to those of 25 and more years ago is astounding. . . a rather incredible fact in light of the feminist movement. Gender bias is alive and well in entertainment media. No bibliography.
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Paper Title: The 'Smurfette Principle' & Today's Gender-Biased Media

Critique of Western Feminist Representation
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A 7 page paper that discusses the argument between feminists on the issue of 'third world' representation of women. The paper focuses upon theories presented by Abu-Lughod, Mahanty, Russo and Torres, and also looks at Bell Hooks' theory that feminists must interact with the women they study in order to get a true understanding of the applicability of theory. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Critique of Western Feminist Representation

The Struggle To Reshape Thinking About Gender
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A 7 page paper that discusses the need to act on feminist theory, and posits that feminist anthropologists move out of the ivory tower and into action. The writer includes discussion around views of feminist anthropological theory postulated by writers such as Naomi Wolf, Marilyn Strathern, Pat Caplan, and bell hooks. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: The Struggle To Reshape Thinking About Gender

Bell’s “Daughters of the Dreaming” / Gender Parity
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A 5 page paper on this controversial book by American anthropologist Diane Bell. The paper argues that Bell evocatively renders the importance of ritual and myth in the lives of aboriginal women, but overstresses the importance of their achieving social parity with tribal men. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Bell’s “Daughters of the Dreaming” / Gender Parity

Gender & The New Age of Technology
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A 5 page paper discussing gender in a computer world. The world has come quite a distance in the past century in relationship to technology as well as to gender issues but both are destined to continue to change. The advances which are prevalent in the world of communications and computers should likely be used as an incentive to overcome prejudices attached to gender differences. Differences which are unavoidable. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Gender & The New Age of Technology

Gender Gap
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Female Students Are Not Getting the Academic Assistance that Male Students Get: In 5 pages the author discusses the issue of female students not getting the academic assistance that male students get. "The gender gap is alive and well at the end of the 20th century. Female students are not getting the assistance that male students are getting. Male students are now, and have always been given the most attention in the academic setting. Academic programs are set up to favor the male gender. Education should be non-gender biased." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Gender Gap

Gender Roles in Society
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This 5 page paper explores several sociological theories in terms of how society has been ordered to render the male the dominant sex. Feminist ideology is explored as well. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Gender Roles in Society

"Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal Of Slenderness In American Culture": Overview
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4 pages in length. Modern diets of teenage girls reflect the significant pressures placed upon impressionable adolescents. Whether the influence is that of popular culture, athletics or peer pressure, young girls are faced with conflicting information when it comes to how society perceives attractiveness. Joan Jacobs Brumberg's article entitled "Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture" delves deeply into the reasons why American popular culture has such a stranglehold upon the way in which girls view themselves and the drastic actions they take in order to portray the image of slenderness. Much of the issues with body image and self-esteem manifest themselves in eating disorders, a particularly pertinent concern with impressionable adolescents. Eating disorders, such as bingeing, purging and fasting, are as much a part of adolescent life as Friday night pizza parties and football games. Adolescent females, in particular, are significantly more susceptible because they are keenly aware of their physical appearance, which is oftentimes distorted by an unbalanced self-esteem. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Paper Title: "Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal Of Slenderness In American Culture": Overview

"Gender Stereotyping in the English Language" By Laurel Richardson
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A 5 page summary overview of the article, along with critical commentary on the author's findings. No additional sources are used.
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Paper Title: "Gender Stereotyping in the English Language" By Laurel Richardson

"Men and Women of the Corporation"
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A 5 page overview of the problems confronting women in the workplace. Emphasizing the work presented by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her book "Men and Women of the Corporation", the author of this paper examines the hierarchical relationship of the workplace and details how this relationship is determined to a large degree by gender. No other sources are listed.
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Paper Title: "Men and Women of the Corporation"

"The Dragon's Village" Chen Yuan-tsung (1980)
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(14 pp.) A Chinese history scholar has written: "Most sympathetic observers of Chinese women have … concluded that a major obstacle on the road to furthering gender equality in China remains the task of overcoming women's long ingrained 'sense of inferiority ' in their new roles and their acceptance of subordination in light of a thousand years of cultural conditioning." This issue will be discussed in relationship to Chen Yuan-tsung's autobiography, The Dragon's Village (1980) Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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Paper Title: "The Dragon's Village" Chen Yuan-tsung (1980)

"The Role of Women in Human Evolution"
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A 3 page review of author Margaret Ehrenberg's views on the emergence of gender roles in mankind's evolution. Published in editors Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent anthology titled "Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective", this article questions the traditional anthropological explanation of women's role in evolution. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: "The Role of Women in Human Evolution"

"Trumpet"
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A 6 page review of the novel by Jackie Kay. The novel features many of the elements of the life of a real American jazz musician, Billy Tipton. Like Tipton the main character of this book, Joss, led his life as a man yet upon his death it was discovered that he was in fact anatomically female. The author of this paper analyzes the reasons that might have prompted Joss to change his gender. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: "Trumpet"

'Learning Together'
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A 5 page paper which reviews the book 'Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Schools' by David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: 'Learning Together'

'Moll Flanders,' 'History Of Misella' And 'The Rambler': How The Role Of Women Shaped 18th Century London Society
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14 pages in length. There has rarely been a time in the history of mankind that women have not had to struggle in order to assert their worth as a gender. From the time when males first declared patriarchal authority over their female counterparts, women have fought – in various ways and with various results – to be treated both equitably and respectfully. Literature has long reflected this perpetual struggle between the genders, most often taking the side that support patriarchal control; however, a slow but steady change began occurring in eighteenth century London society that helped nurture a growing metamorphosis, which included Samuel Johnson 'Rambler' (Misella), Daniel Defoe's 'Moll Flanders' and Frances Burney's 'Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World.' Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Paper Title: 'Moll Flanders,' 'History Of Misella' And 'The Rambler': How The Role Of Women Shaped 18th Century London Society

'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.
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Paper Title: 'The Day I Learned to Recognize People Of The Opposite Sex As Equals'

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity
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A 10 page book review on 2 feminist history texts: A Voice of Their Own edited by Martha Solomon and The Politics of Domesticity by Barbara Epstein. The writer offers an overview of each text, including reviewers' evaluation, and also argues that the texts share a common theme in that both texts indicate the antagonism toward men felt by Victorian women. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: 2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

2 Views /Female Participation in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Politics
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A 10 page analysis in which the writer argues that Theda Skocpol in her book "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers," and also Kristi Andersen in her book "After Suffrage" address similar territory in that both of these political scientists look at how female participation in the American political process in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has largely been under-appreciated or ignored completely. Both of these authors demonstrate that this participation must be viewed within the context of political framework of their time in order to be understood properly. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Paper Title: 2 Views /Female Participation in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Politics

A BACKLASH AGAINST FEMINISM
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This 11 page paper discusses the backlash against feminism and the reasons why many women are now rejecting the movement. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Paper Title: A BACKLASH AGAINST FEMINISM

A Comparison of the Depictions of Women in "Medea" and "Wide Sargasso Sea"
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A 7 page overview of the female characters in the ancient work of literature by Euripides and the more modern work by Jean Rhys. The author contends that in each of these works the presentation of female characters runs counter to the audience's expectations. Literary conventions and audience expectations, values, and assumptions are challenged. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: A Comparison of the Depictions of Women in "Medea" and "Wide Sargasso Sea"

A Conversation Among Friends Who Went Away For The Weekend
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5 pages in length. Julie, Ann and Elise needed to get away for the weekend. Between their boyfriends, work and classes, all three young women were past due for some serious rest and relaxation. They were looking forward to this trip for many reasons, but one of the most important was so they could talk about everything until all hours of the night; while choice of topics was vast in nature, there was one subject that kept recurring over and over again throughout the weekend: men. What ultimately developed was a conversation that ended up with all three women in hysterics. No bibliography.
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Paper Title: A Conversation Among Friends Who Went Away For The Weekend

A PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN YEZIERSKA’S ‘AMERICA AND I’ AND STEINBECK’S ‘CHRYSANTHEMUMS’
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This 6 page paper analyzes the portrayal of women and the themes of Steinbeck and Yezierska in "Chrysanthemums" and "America and I". Quotes cited from the texts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: A PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN YEZIERSKA’S ‘AMERICA AND I’ AND STEINBECK’S ‘CHRYSANTHEMUMS’

A Psychoanalytic Reading of Christina Rossetti’s “The Lost Titian”
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This 5 page report discusses the psychoanalytical aspects of the short story by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) “The Lost Titian” that was published in 1856. It is worth noting that her works’ apparent simplicity often masks a darker and far more intellectual stream of consciousness. From a psychoanalytical perspective it is quite clear that there is much more to the writer and her work which may, in itself, serve as a metaphor for a creative and unique woman of the Victorian age. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Christina Rossetti’s “The Lost Titian”

A Review of the Evolutionary Nature of Feminism
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A 4 page review of the multifaceted nature of feminism. This diversity is emphasized by a number of writers, one of the more notable of which is Estelle Freedman. Freedman's "No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women" is complimented by an exploration of a number of other authors and viewpoints. Rosemarie Tong's "Multicultural and Global Feminism", Pat Mainardi's "The Politics of Housework" and Barbara Ehrenreich's "The Road to Equality" each add considerable insight into the diversity of feminism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Paper Title: A Review of the Evolutionary Nature of Feminism

A Society Without Gender Roles
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A 5 page paper which discusses aspects of gender roles in relationship to a society that did not have gender roles. The paper examines what society would be like if there were no gender roles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: A Society Without Gender Roles

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