Women Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

Addams first gained fame as the head of Hull House an institution offering educational, recreational, and other services to the needy people whom she and a friend founded in Chicago in 1889.

Although the novel is a fictional account of the lives of women and immigrant workers in the US, it gives us an insight of the lives and struggles of immigrant women in America.

To begin with, she started her first campaign on the social media that was calling on women to defy the ban on women drivers.'Teach me how to drive so that I can protect myself" is [...]

Before the legislation of the exclusion act, Asians were allowed to immigrate to the US as laborers in the sugar farms.

This piece of work will look at the concept of the US involvement in foreign wars and its effects on Asian women in the US and other parts of the world. The discrimination and oppression [...]

In order to understand the significance and necessity of the 19th century women movements in shaping present day cultural role of women, it is important to shed light on the social, cultural and legal status [...]

The role of the American media in shaping the cultural identity of women has led to what Douglas refers to as a contradiction of cultures as the influences of the media over the generations have [...]

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution is a three volume record of the events that was created by one of the first historians of Revolution, who was also a woman.

Some of these issues include the social cultural perspective of the war, the economic aspects, the political dimensions of the wars and the roles that various people played in the war.

Since power has always been understood from the point of view of men and the ruling class, the task of feminists is therefore to try and reconceptualize power from the point of view of a [...]

This shows the significance that was attached to the women as a source of labor in the mills. Fruit picking from the farms and canning was also done by women in the mills.

For example, women in the Navy Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corp were sent to take part in the Vietnam War and the Korean War.

Freedom of choice comprises one of the constituents of a wider debate going to the society under the umbrella of human rights.

In 1968, the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong forces attacked all the major cities of South Vietnam and even the US embassy followed where the war could not stop but in the year 1973 [...]

Both Woolf and Rich agree that education is a means for women to grow, and both agree that it is absolutely the responsibility of women to seek their own education.

Stretching from the colonial period to the revolution of America to the end of the Second World War, women performed household roles because of cultural indifference.

This means that if women are given and encouraged to have the same level of education as the men than the society would be a much better place as both the female and male genders [...]

How the Anti-Slavery Movement Challenge Established Notions of Manhood and Womanhood Kathryn Kish Sklar's general idea in the book is to enlighten people on the role of women in the society during the 19th century, [...]

Prior to the colonial era, the roles of women across the world were greatly limited by the traditional attitudes which viewed women as the "weaker sex".

According to the article, the prostitutes were out to exploit the boom experienced in the trade as a result of the war and they reaped handsome rewards for their efforts.

As a result, the nations were considered as still maintaining their barbarism due to the exclusion of women and as a result, the Christian denominations voiced their concern on women being allowed to rise up [...]

To Songlian, this is a wake up call as she realizes she has to fight for her place in this marriage and win Chen's heart to lure him into spending more time with her.

Ahmed first focuses on the gender pattern in the Middle East prior to the emergence of the Islam in order to gain ground to describe the Islamic doctrine on women that were practiced in the [...]

However, with the movement to the New World, their previously clearly defined roles began to be blurred mostly as a consequence of the labor deficit in colonial America which led to a state where the [...]

Greek, Indian, and other civilizations demonstrate different treatments of women; the status of women has been changed considerably with time but still some grounds allow to evaluate the peculiarity of each nation and to define [...]

When speaking about the independence of the employees at the Lowell Mills, one is to keep in mind that the so-called independence was determined by interpersonal relations between the women.

Women have the right to serve their countries, but, at the same time, they have a kind of obligation to give birth to children and bring them up properly; this is why single mothers should [...]

The status of women in society has been considerably changed and, now, women take leading positions in different spheres: women in education choose proper approaches to study children and help them develop their skills; women [...]

After the completion of these, Rankin joined philanthropic school in New York after which she again worked as a social worker in children's home in Washington Rankin also was in the forefront in agitating for [...]

The few scholars that wrote about women simply mentioned them in passing, but they never gave them a critical analysis."Women's studies were first conceived in the late 1970s, as the second wave of feminism gained [...]

This essay shall discuss the prominent factors that affected views and social values of Native American Women in the late nineteenth century, variation of White and Native American women, boarding school experiences of Native American, [...]

IN A NUTSHELL, Charlotte Perkins Gilman fearlessly fought for the women's rights. Charlotte Perkins Gilman championed the rights of women to vote.

The author emphasizes on feminism and the significance of intellect in the pursuit of women to become strong in physically and psychologically.

Jesus, Ahmed, Pandit, and Brittain offered their writings to show how unfair and wrong world's position was for a long period of time and how miserable human actions could be in case they were not [...]

Civil rights are what citizens in a democratic country are entitled to and they include rights such as the right to vote, right to equal treatment and opportunities, the right to life and the right [...]