Women Essays

Our Indian is gradually emerging as a powerful land since women began playing significant role for the development of the nation. Role of woman in modern India can be called as phenomenal. Woman who once considered being the masters in the art of home making are now considered to be …

Introduction From the perspective of the reader, Salman Rushdie is infamous for having written The Satanic Verses. Among the literary critics, however, the author is perhaps most famous for writing Midnight’s Children. Indeed, much of Rushdie criticism is centered upon this postcolonial, and some would stress, postmodern work. Influenced by …

Introduction All the three texts, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Ramayana, and The Analects of Confucius, describe male-female relationships. Their accounts all present these relationships, stressing the inferiority of women in relationship to men. Man is in control of things, while the woman’s role is to remain subordinated …

            Throughout the centuries, the social niche of women has changed drastically. Along with the continuous changes in the different aspects of the society, the changing and significant role of women could also be gleaned equally important. Contrary to the meek and inferior stereotype of women, the women have played …

            The Iliad and the Odyssey are both famous works of Homer.  Both stories depict events that transpired during the Trojan War.  The Iliad describes the period toward the end of the war.  The Odyssey, on the other hand, describes the period when Odysseus returns home, ten years after the …

CHAPTER 1 Introduction Systemic lupus erythematosus is increasingly becoming common in the United States. No other population has witnessed more steep increases in the incidence rate of this disease than African American women of child bearing age. Research indicates that it is this group that manifests with the most severe …

Hypergamy is a system of practice whereby someone selects a spouse of higher social economic, education or any other characteristic associated with economic power. The practice existed in many human cultures across the world with women falling victims. Women were encouraged or sought suitors who were wealthier, older or more …

Jane Addams (1915) was one of the active women in the early 20th century who spearhead the cause of women to participate in the legislative process. In this article she pities the condition of the women and the society in general and how women have been neglected in making decision …

The essay that I selected is Talking Back by Bell Hooks[1] who is a famous African-American feminist writer. In this essay she traces down her development as a writer and explores her learning about the various manifestations of speech through non-conformist socialization process.             She starts the essay with the …

Abstract Germany came under the influence of the Nazis for a short period of twenty years, from the mid twenties until the end of the Second World War. This period was the most traumatic the world has witnessed in recent times and was marked by global warfare, racial atrocities and …