“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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“Women Have Always Worked”
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This 5 page report discusses the concepts presented in Alice Kessler-Harris’, a professor of history at Columbia University, book about women’s work outside the home. When she views the world in terms of the patterns associated with women working inside or outside of the home, it is clear that she has a clear understanding of the factors that determined where most women would do the most work as was decided by the economic conditions of society. Such has always been the case in America but it should also be noted that women have always worked. The differences are in definition, certainly not in the expenditure of physical energy. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
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“Women in Control?” by Frances Heidensohn
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A 5 page review of Frances Heidensohn’s book “Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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“Women in the 20th century”
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A 5 page paper which looks at the changing role of women in society during the twentieth century, in terms of their position within the family, changes in employment legislation, and the ways in which social changes affected the position of women as a whole.
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“Working Class Majority” and “Nickel and Dimed”
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A comparison of the content and message contained in these books by Michael Zweig and Barbara Ehrenreich. Each of these authors targets the latter half of the 1990s to present an expose of a societal situation which they find unacceptable. Both are concerned with the definition of class in America and the societal factors which interact to define the respective classes. While Zweig approaches the problems of class in America from a statistical perspective Ehrenreich takes a slightly different approach, shedding her identity as an award-winning journalist and infiltrating blue collar America as an unskilled worker. No additional sources are listed.
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"A Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman"
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An 11 page paper which compares and contrasts Kate Chopin's "A Story of an Hour" and Gail Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman." Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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"Battered Women in the Courtroom-The Power of Judicial Responses": A Review of the Book by James Ptacek
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A 5 page paper analyzing Ptacek's review of the legal complications facing a woman who has been battered by her husband or significant partner. Ptacek's book stands out in three critical areas. In addition to considering the effects of men's violence on the daily lives of women, "Battered Women in the Courtroom-The Power of Judicial Responses" provides a review of the laws designed to protect women from abusive men and evaluates the response of judges to battered women who enter their courtroom seeking legal redress. Concludes that Ptacek's analysis of the legal arena facing battered women in the courtroom is one of the most thorough and detailed as of yet provided in the literature. No additional sources are listed.
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"Contributor To Stress Resistance: Testing A Model Of Women's Work-Family Conflict" - Article Review
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3 pages in length. "Contributor to Stress Resistance: Testing a Model of Women's Work-Family Conflict" by Karyn H. Bernas and Debra A. Major in the June, 2000 issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly seeks to illustrate how the inextricable relationship between work and family responsibilities is exacerbated by the factor of stress. When stress is present in a given situation where the woman simultaneously holds down a job outside the home as well as raises a family, the conflict between the two incompatible responsibilities is significantly greater; however, when stress is reduced, the work-family conflict is also abated. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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"Men and Women of the Corporation"
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A 5 page overview of the problems confronting women in the workplace. Emphasizing the work presented by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her book "Men and Women of the Corporation", the author of this paper examines the hierarchical relationship of the workplace and details how this relationship is determined to a large degree by gender. No other sources are listed.
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