Women's Studies Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (388) essays
Women's Studies essays:
Gender Issues
... boys and girls born different or does every infant really come into the world programmed for caretaking or war making? There are certainly biological differences between men and women, but there are really no established genetically based behavior differences ...
Feminism by Minda Wu
... and the National Woman Suffrage Association. From the days of the Salem Witch Trials , where women received the first taste of their power, to the Women's Liberation, women have been receiving more and more rights, freedoms, and powers. Although some of the differences ...
Beauty and women...in society..the beauty myth
... Beauty And Women The rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last fifty years. Women gained legal rights, reproductive rights, pursued higher education, entered the military, and the sports arena by overturning the ancient and social beliefs about the women's social role ...
Domestic violence
... woman can not be stopped unless he is given counseling, jailed, or killed. He will continue to abuse until he is stopped, and ignoring the problem will definitely not help it go away. Husbands and boyfriends send more women to the hospital each year ...
Sexual Harassment
... and sexually suggestive talk between men and women who work alongside them.' Lately, it seems that Americans are making sexual harassment an excuse. People are crying sexual harassment like the little boy ...
Women in Africa
... difference in what men and women wanted. Men wanted total control of the women. The colonial chiefs felt that they were loosing authority over the women, so they wanted to tighten their reigns. Fond memories were recounted by the chiefs of ''the good old days. . .[when] no girl or woman ...
Lack of public atttention to rape victims.
... women will never know the options available to the as rape victims. Women suffer horribly both mentally and physically when sexually assaulted. Without immediate attention, both personally and legally, the dilemma will spiral out of control. Violent crimes against both men and women ...
Sexploitation in Sport.
... men and women are much the same, this is an athletically muscular physique. Unfortunately to many men and women across the world, a female with a muscular body isn't too aesthetically pleasing. This is one of the causes of why female sport ...
An politcal arguement of sexual harrasment. Refers to Katha Pollitt's article 'Kissing & Telling'
... magazine that is so left winged it is probably communist. Levite's using the most incredibly dense, and ... state ...
How would you explain Domestic Violence?
... woman to leave her abuser. For example if the abuser has all of the economic and social status, leaving could cause additional problems for the woman. Leaving could mean living in fear, losing child custody, and losing financial support. While there is no profile of the women ...