Theories of British Politics in the 20th century
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Twentieth-century British politics have been linked to one of the most discussed primal concepts within the existing global affairs, particularly throughout the past seven years. With fundamental referendums which exceptionally resulted in the dramatic withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the...
Jarhead - Sam Mendes (2005) - The place of men and women in society during the war
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
Jarhead is a trip movie and also a movie of war that tells the stories of the soldiers, it was filmed in the late 1970s, Sam Mendes directed the film based on the true story of Anthony Swofford's private life as a military man in the US marine, the movie takes us back to the Gulf War. The...
The Depiction of Women's Struggles Against Patriarchal Power Structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - Proposal
Dissertation - 6 pages - Literature
The document is an outline of a thesis about Margaret Atwood's depiction of women's struggles in her works. The project explores the depiction of women's struggles against patriarchal power structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel, The Testaments....
Maleficent - Robert Stromberg (2014); Evil Thing - Serena Valentino (2020); Moon Palace - Paul Auster (1989); Women's Voice and Images in Folk Tales and Fairy Tales - Luma Al-Barazenji (2015) - Women Empowerment
Presentation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The document is an oral presentation which studies the case of women empowerment. In order to approach the subject, four documents are taken into account: - a poster of the movie "Maleficent," released on May 18, 2014, by the director Robert Stromberg; - an excerpt from "Evil Thing" written by...
Women and Society
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The gendered politics of housework have long been a focal point of unequal distribution of household chores and responsibilities based on gender roles within a household. The gendered politics phenomenon in the housework context has been extensively explored in sociology and gender studies,...
Mega-Sport Events: Impact on Women Opportunities in Sponsorship and Their Brand Image
Dissertation - 34 pages - Sport marketing
"Sport has the power to change the world," declared Nelson Mandela in his famous speech at the first Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco in 2000. According to research done by A.T. Kearney, the global sports market is worth somewhere between $480 billion to $620 billion. Over and above the huge...
The thing around your neck, A private experience - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2009
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Literature
In this other short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, two women help each other to find shelter in an abandoned store, after running with no rest, in a hurry. One is clearly Muslim, the other, Chika, seems to be Christian. In an atmosphere of dictatorship and ethnic tensions, they have escaped a...
Role of Education in Gender Equality: Stereotyping - published: 04/11/2023
Presentation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document is a guide summarizing the main concepts to be covered in a 15-minute presentation on the role of education in gender equality.
To what extent do you think it is possible for women to be both politically engaged feminists?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Women are known to multitask perfectly and to handle more than one chore has never been a problem. However, as much as women want equality with men in all areas including the political field, they are not supposed to forget about what entails to be female. There comes a time that women cannot...
Two revision sheets for the English oral exam of the baccalauréat
Revision sheet - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
In this document you will find two revision sheets for the English oral exam of the baccalauréat on the themes The Idea of Progress and Places and Forms of Power.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813) - Love
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Love, a theme that has been the focus of many novels over the last few centuries. No novelist, however, has mastered to approach it in such a unique manner as Jane Austen. During the Regency Period in 1813, Jane Austen wrote and published her illustrious novel Pride and Prejudice, where she...
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813) - Money
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Money, a theme that had been the focus of many novels over the last few centuries. No novelist, however, has mastered to approach it in such a unique manner as Jane Austen. During the Regency period, when wealth and status defined relationships, Jane Austen wrote and published her illustrious...
Frankenstein, Volume III - Mary Shelley (1818); Feminist Criticism of the Social Sciences - Marcia Westcott (1979); The Elephant Man - David Lynch (1980) - The devaluation of women
Artwork commentary - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The widespread silencing of women's voices in the past, often placing them on the periphery of their narratives, provides a context for the analysis of gender representation in cultural narratives. This paper examines the representation and treatment of women in Mary Shelley's...
Belle Reprieve - Split Britches (1990) - A creative theatrical staging
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Split Britches represents a significant antithesis to modern theatre's established rules of cultural formation. It develops empirically and implements a distinct value orientation of culture by actively promoting the diversity agenda. The foundational artefact of this paper is the primary...
How women perceive one another across the religious divide from the secular to Judeo-Christian to the Muslim community
Thesis - 8 pages - Philosophy
Beginning with a macro question, my research is defined by a more nuanced context. Through reflecting on the different positions and sensitivities around how we define ‘others', an examination of how women perceive each other across the religious divide from the secular to Judeo-Christian to...
The feminist movement in the Middle East in comparison to the feminist movement in the U.S
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The feminist movement in the United States began more than a century ago. Although it was not labeled as such until the late 1950s, a review of women's history in the United States reveals that women have long fought for social, economic and political parity. While the roots of the feminist...
An outline of the feminist and post-modernist critique of criminology
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
In this assignment we will discuss liberal and radical feminism in particular and we will outline the concerns of feminist criminology and how it has criticized male stream criminology. I will then outline the main features of post modernism and its critique of the attempt to be scientific...
The evolution of Chinese and French women since the nineteenth century: Differences and similarities
Thesis - 17 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the two last Centuries, French women and Chinese ones have realized, little by little, their emancipation. What are the matrixes which have participated to the positive evolution of the condition of the Chinese and French women? Under which form has it taken place, and at which moments in the...
Plato's Republic V: Women as rulers- A feminist proposal
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
In Book V of Plato's Republic, Plato argues that women should be rulers, raising questions as to whether Plato was an early advocate of feminism. However, an examination of the argument he provides in the text of the Republic does not support this claim, and Julia Anna's' scholastic work...
Plato as a proto-feminist: Tendencies towards the development of feminist thought
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
The idea of Plato's Republic being one of the true first pro-feminist arguments seems to have some steam in modern times. However, there seems to be major flaws with these theories. The fact that modern feminism is not grounded in Platonic feminism is perhaps the most striking...
Do we need feminist theory in International Relations? If so why?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Feminism is a critical social and political movement who first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth with women's claims of equal rights in society and in the political sphere, with the right of vote. But now, since approximately the end of the...
Gender, sexuality and politics: masculinity - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The art critic and author John Berger, known in particular for his introductory essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing , discusses a “promise of power”, which lies at the centre of a network of conventional masculine characteristics: authority, competitiveness, aggression,...
Manifest: To Become
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
On the occasion of International Women's Day, I find myself wanting to write about feminism. I don't know what wave I am—4th, or maybe some unknowable iteration in the process of being born and matured. But I do know that I think a lot about what it means to be a woman wielding her...
Is feminist-multiculturalism a contradiction in terms?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors.” Evelyn Cunningham The concept of feminist-multiculturalism supposes the combination of two doctrines: feminism and multiculturalism, both fighting for rights and...
Fear of Sin
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
(King James Bible, Psalms 34:1) With patriarchal systems prevalent in most societies, masculinity is often exalted as a source of universal power. Critics, often focused on the issues of political correctness and moral integrity in such sexist assumptions, never object to the actual existence of...
How is sexuality and sexual behavior in the developing world shaped by globalization?
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Globalization greatly affects the sexual behavior, choices, habits, risks, identities and health of individuals in the developing world. Sexuality has certainly been altered by the intensification and spread of networks and flows interconnecting individuals and political, economic, cultural,...
Surrogacy: Liberating or limiting? - published: 29/07/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Does surrogacy turn women into “reproductive vessels? ” Does it liberate women to use their body as they choose, or are women becoming pawns in a scientific experiment? In the essay, Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists, the author, Lori B. Andrews, looks at the conflicting...
Film analysis: The Syrian Bride
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
‘The Syrian Bride' a 2004 comedy drama film, is a take on the Arab - Israeli conflict through the eyes of a Druze family settled in the UNDOF zone of Majdal Shams, a Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli - Syrian border. All events that take place in the movie are a result of a cross...
The gender gap in the ownership and control of property is the single most critical contributor to the gender gap in economic well-being, social status, and empowerment'
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
Before the 1970s, women were practically invisible: they were relegated to the family and the domestic world. However since the middle of this same decade, the gender issue has become an increasingly theme within the development concern. Globalization not only affects men but women as well,...
Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber': A revision of social fictions
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' comprises a collection of short stories, all of which, in some sense or another, exemplify a variation or reworking of popularized fairy tales. Her writing style, rather than taking the form of any one genre, crosses the boundaries of all of them;...
