... also best for a city" (457a). In recognition of women's physical inferiority, Plato assigns them "lighter parts of these tasks" (457a). The sexes are given equal living standards, with "no one privately possessing anything," including housing. Sexual interaction is to be governed by the rulers (458). The best men are made to procreate with the best women, and vice versa. The children of the elite citizens are tended to by government ... wars, such as World Wars I and II that women be part of the war effort and help carry the nation. Yet, once the war is over, and the economy is booming ...

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... Carbine. When Cora urges them to leave when the gunpowder runs out, he does not and stays back with the women. Duncan is concerned above all for the safety of Alice when Magua takes her away. Duncan gets into a Huron camp disguised as a French doctor. He is called to treat a sick Indian woman and finds Alice in a cave with his patient. He rescues Alice by ... wrapping her in a blanket and declaring to the Huron that she is his ... patient, whom he is carrying into the woods for treatment ... ...

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... is brave enough to go against the laws of the land that the king has put in place. Creon tries to show Antigone that a woman can never win against him by giving her a life sentence of imprisonment. Secondly, Antigone tries as hard as she can to show no fear that she will spend the rest of her life locked away in a cave. She is a very brave woman, that ... takes all the credit of breaking Creon's laws. This sort of action ultimately proves that Antigone is a courageous woman and is willing to stand up to men, which was completely against what any other woman ... late. He tries to rescue...

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... cattle. Henry has just sold some cattle and has offered to take his wife out into town to celebrate. He goes off to gather the livestock and prepare the wagon for the outing that evening. While Henry is away, a salesman comes to call on Elisa. He realizes that she has a love for her flowers ... seedlings in a pot for the salesman to take. The salesman leaves and Elisa eagerly returns to the house to get ready for her outing with Henry. While Henry and Elisa are making their way into town, she discovers the flower seedlings dumped out on the side of the road. Elisa is devastated by the wa...

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... 39 of Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search for individuality and freedom in her life. Perhaps the most apparent connection between the two chapters is the symbol and role of the sea ... which allows Edna to find the light that ... she has been searching for. In the end, the reader is able to see that all ... ...

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... and a desire to be treated as an equal of their male partners arose in spheres of both work and domestic responsibilities. Such desires are quite vividly portrayed in the gender ideologies of Nancy, a character from Second shift [Arlie Hochschild, 1989: Pg. 39-41]. Nancy tried to establish herself as the career woman. Her gender ideology centered on the idea of herself as a woman who would be needed and ... , et. al, 1996: Pg. 143,]. According to a 1995 USDA study, a couple had to spend an average of 26% of their income on a single child and 42% on two children. For a two children famil...

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... knowledge that Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and many others wrote unfavorably or simply incorrectly about women. In the best-known farcical example is probably Aristotle's assertion that the temperature of the woman's body is lower than that of the man's. The question "What does it mean to be a woman?" will not have the right answer until women themselves give it. In truth, Simone de Beauvoir does not write about ... they are in relationship. We can say men not equal to not-women; or there is no existence of subject and object between men and women because everything men distinguish. Similar ...

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... in Mustafa Sa'eed the African of the legends and fantasies. He enchants them with his outrageous stories of lions and elephants walking down the streets of the cities. "...when I'm lying on my bed at night I put my hand out the window and idly play with the Nile waters till sleep overtakes me".(39) Is this an image of colonization in reverse? Is the childlike sense of awe and mystery which ... draws the European women to Mustafa Sa'eed the same type of fascination felt by the colonizing ... men who overtook the African continent? ... ...

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... cultural practices that we can easily observe throughout other people. People who adapted themselves to believe in follow these cultural practices think that the best thing to do is to get them involved in these kinds of cultural practices. One of the things that we can say that would be weird from people from other cultures to observe can be people's worryness about their ... damage in people. Sometimes, girls who are pretty and have a nice body to show up, believe that they are getting fat and they start to eat less and less until the point that they become really thin, but they don't...

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... worse as children become young adults. Young women read magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Seventeen and Marie Claire, which are full of images of the thin, tall top models. These models can put you in a trance so to speak. For example, Tyra Banks is one of the top models for Victoria's Secret. She has a great body, a pretty face and now has her own television show for ... sees. Most women think, "Oh my God, my thighs are huge!" or "Wow, I need to get that liposuctioned off." Low self-esteem causes thoughts of abnormality when in reality it is the models we see that are the abnormal ones. ...

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... lowly trades. Aristotle reports that in democracies it was impossible to keep poor women from going out, and it was in fact not just a sign of pride, but also of poverty for free women to circulate in the public spaces of the polis. As there are exceptions to every rule, some women were able to participate successfully in more respectable occupations, such as writing. Many ... friend Baucis, a young girl always by her side. Conclusion-Despite the fact that we try to move past the belief that women are inferior, we agree with the Greeks in the sense that both women and men should treat o...

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... in their political rights. In evaluating the possibilities for exercise of political rights, the opinions of male and female respondents vary significantly. Most of the respondents think that women have more possibilities to perform in cultural sphere (79.4% male, 71.7% female). The 36.6% of male and 41.3% of female respondents think that their political rights are infringed. But 47% of male and 39.9% of female respondents feel that it is possible to ... of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan states: " Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan have the right to manage the affair...

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... until you could almost feel the dense grain of the wood, and stare down into the rows and rows of camisoles, petticoats, bras, as if looking down into the lives of women. (3-11) This description of Hink's is a vivid memory from when the speaker was young, and when she remembed peering down into the women's clothing section seeing how amazing and beautiful the clothing was. The fact that the gift from her father ... [her] father" (36-38). This example shows that the lie, to the speaker, was worth more than the truth. In fact, she even recalls "wanting in those days to appear to have some...

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... gonna keep me down again" say the lyrics of the song "I am woman," by the singer Helen Reddy. This song demonstrates the position women are submitted into and advances a notion of having the women's role as an instigator for change. In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, the woman figure is Liberty 5-3000 and the male figure is Equality 7-2521. The novel maintains that "women are forbidden ... " (Rand 39). Equality knows that he cannot look upon her for she is a woman, but he keeps on saying to himself that "the Golden One are not like the others" (Rand 41). Equality has not been the first man...

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... spiteful, intriguing and greedy of power. They show themselves off among the soldiers and have the centurions at their beck. Lately a woman had presided at the drill of the cohorts and the evolutions of the legions. You should yourselves bear in mind that, whenever men are accused of extortion, most of the charges are directed against the wives. It is to these that the vilest of the provincials instantly attach themselves ... poorer nourishment than boys. Interestingly, as late as the Middle Ages, male infants in certain areas of Europe were breast-fed for period's twice as long as female...

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... cooking. This is shown in her relationship with Harpo. He is the one who is usually cooking and cleaning in the house, while she is in the fields. This is not the typical woman characteristic. It is quite the contrary. Celie also broke out of the stereotype, but this happened later in the book, after Shug influenced her. "You a low down dog is what's wrong, I say. It's time ... to leave you and enter into Creation. And your dead body is just the welcome mat I need ... ."(P. 207) This is significant because here she declares her independence from Mr.____. And she is ready to start a new ...

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... stanza, Bradstreet also says she understands her place is beneath men in society's standing. This is expressed in the lines, "It is but vain unjustly to wake war; / men can do best, and women know it well." (39-40). Bradstreet is aware of her domestic duties, all she wants is to be recognized as a writer and be respected for her writings. Bradstreet does ... it better. Bradstreet writes, "Let poets and historians set these forth; / My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth" (5-6). She was stating that her writings will make the events of the past seem unimportant. In the third stanz...

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... like him is to become holy, just and wise." - Plato The minute study of the history of the Indian subcontinent and the various historical processes it has experienced will reflect a rather vibrant amalgamation of various socio-cultural and religious traditions. The unique nature of this synthesis lies not in the idea of the "melting pot" of consumption and assimilation into the prevalent hegemonic culture and tradition (though that may have been successfully ... they seemed to have left behind for the many after them. The complexity of the then exisiting social order, the tensions in th...

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... ancient Chinese society by portraying a young woman as a source of power in this patriarchal system. The strong characterization of The Woman Warrior demonstrates the empowerment of women. The mountain test is a rite of passage for her, as she becomes a stronger person. The dragon that The Woman Warrior encounters symbolizes the role of women in society. The education of The Woman Warrior illustrates the empowerment of women by developing the protagonist's character and by putting her through difficult situations ... in an overwhelmingly opposite world, the author shows that perseveranc...

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... the beginning of time that women were the weaker of the two sexes. Women all over the world have been fighting for equal rights for centuries but the historic stereotype is still stuck. In the US women are allowed to have the same jobs as men, and are, most of time, respected in the same aspect. But, there still is the ... occasional occurrence where women will be laughed at for wanting to do something that may be considered more of a man's job. There are still the ... comments like "Oh, she can't do that, she's not strong enough, she's a woman, that's a man's job." Even in America with...

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... in history. If it wasn't for those six women then today would be a very different place then it is right now. If you were a woman back at the turn of the century you wouldn't have the right to vote or do near as many things as you could do today. As you probably know woman used to classify as not being real people. When ... , woman were not "persons" and therefore could not hold public office. That all changed when these six incredible woman took action. They started a petition to the supreme court of Canada. Trying to achieve woman being called "persons" the law stated that woman were n...

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... . Her father would also be able to protect the bride from physical abuse and abuse of property, as she would still belong to him. The dextrarum iunctio: bride and bridegroom join hands (from a funeral altar). Marriage sometimes did result in love. In the case of Pliny the Younger (39) and Calpurnia (probably around the age of 14) this happened. Calpurnia was the ideal bride for Pliny; he praised her intelligence ... and her skill in looking after the home. He writes to Calpurnia's aunt (her guardian): "In addition, this love has given her an interest ... ...

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... made one of them to excel the other."38 Coupled with passages of the Qur'an that sequestered the wives of Muhammad from the rest of society, it has been argued that the role of Muslim women became one of "passivity and submissiveness comparable to that already imposed on contemporary Jewish and Christian women."39 Moreover, Spellberg states that independence and vitality, the defining characteristics found in women of the first Muslim ... a pivotal player in shaping 'A'isha's deleterious reputation. In the weeks following the "affair of the lie," rumors of the scandal spread wildly...

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... housekeepers, and sexual victims from white males since slavery was started in 16th century. Black women had never enjoyed some of the supposed benefits the womanhood and its separate spheres for men and women, an ideology developed as a result of 19th century industrialization in the U.S. Slave owners thought that black women were profitable labor unit like black men, and sometimes as sexual exploitation for owners ... . Some of historians had tried to prove brutal slavery in human history directly or indirectly, especially black women described as great victims and established the basi...

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... supposed to perform certain tasks places many restrictions on the word gender. Gender role stereotypes refer to the oversimplified expectations of what it means to be a woman or a man. It would be stereotypical to believe that a woman's place is in the kitchen, and at the same time to assume that a man's job is to financially support the family. Most women today are strong willed and perfectly ... able to take care of themselves. Just the same, today's man is not only concerned about his muscles, but also if his belt matches ... his shoes. When looking at a job application the word gen...

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