“Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century”: A Review of the Book by Rosalind Rosenberg
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A 3 page review of Rosenberg’s extensive review of women’s plight in the twentieth century. Rosenberg relates this plight to the complexity of factors which have served to keep women subdued throughout history. Not only are women’s lives divided between their relationships with men in their world, however, they are also divided between domestic and paid labor and numerous other components of modern life and even between themselves. No additional sources are listed.
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“Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
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An eight page paper which looks at the achievements of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was instrumental in campaigning for women’s suffrage in the USA, and the way that her life and works influenced various aspects of American society both at the time and subsequently. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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“Gender and Jim Crow” by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
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A 4 page review of “Gender and Jim Crow” by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. No additional sources cited.
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“Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty”: A Review of the Book by Dorothy Roberts
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A 5 page review of the book by the noted author Dorothy Roberts. The author of this paper contends that in essence this book is an expose of the various lengths the American government has gone to to suppress black motherhood. An overview is provided of the various atrocities which have characterized white suppression and control of black reproduction since the time of slavery, extending into the 1970s, and through to the current day. No additional sources are listed.
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“The Affections Illustrated in Factory Life"
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A Review of the Story by Harriet Farley A 6 page overview of the factors behind this story published in the mid nineteenth century in the “Lowell Offering”, a publication sponsored by capitalist cotton mill owners purportedly as a creative outlet for their largely female employees. Contends that in reality this publication and stories like Farley’s are just one more component of a carefully crafted scheme to attract a cheap source of labor to the cotton mills. No additional sources are listed.
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“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko
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A 4 page report on the book “The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime” by Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa J. Pasko. No additional sources cited.
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“The Matrix” and the Foucauldian Power Structure, Emma Goldman and Simone de Beauvoir
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A 6 page paper which examines two distinct topics. First, it considers how the 1999 film, “The Matrix” can be viewed as an example of the power structure described by French philosopher Michel Foucault and then compares and contrast radical twentieth-century feminists Emma Goldman and Simone de Beauvoir. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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“What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us, Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”: A Review of the Book by Danielle Crittenden
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A 3 page overview of the contentions presented by noted author Danielle Crittenden. Targeting an audience of women in their twenties, Crittenden analyzes the successes, failures, and shortcomings which she sees as characterizing the lives of her reader’s mothers, those women who stand at the height of the feminist movement of earlier generations, those women who gave up much of the status quo of a woman’s traditional world pursuits in favor of pursuing careers and establishing a type of autonomy from male influence which had never been achieved before. Crittenden examines the conflict between the values instilled by this movement into the daughters of these women and the innate biological drive young women have to form emotional commitments and to parent children. No additional sources are listed.
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" and "The Awakening"
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A 4 page overview of the lessons imparted in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Linda Brent's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". The author emphasizes the point that although these books are vastly dissimilar in many respects, they are both 19th century works about women trying to find their place in the world. Edna Pontellier with Linda Brent both manage to do so but not only do they find completely different place, they do so in completely different ways. No additional sources are listed.
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