Essays and Research Papers on Gender Studies

5 pages in length. Carrying forth the burden that has plagued women for centuries, Adrienne Rich's When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-Vision attempts to alter the historical concept of patriarchy within the boundaries of contemporary society. In the author's opinion, the age-old gender molds are ripe for revamping and bringing into the ...

In this 2 page essay, the writer observes differences between men and women in non-verbal communication patterns & habits.. Among other things, it is concluded that men are generally more expressive with their hands than their female counterparts ! No Bibliography.

A 12 page paper that provides an overview of nonverbal communication and considers it in terms of the way both men and women encode and decode these messages. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

This 8 page paper looks at the role of women in aviation maintenance and how that has created challenges in terms of communication. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

A 7-page research example on gender differences. The writer develops a thesis based on studies in communication between men and women and posits that men tend to act aggressively and are less emotionally attached than women. Bibliography cites 10 sources.

A 5 page paper discussing gender in a computer world. The world has come quite a distance in the past century in relationship to technology as well as to gender issues but both are destined to continue to change. The advances which are prevalent in the world of communications and computers should likely be used ...

Fear of computers is deemed as the main reason women avoid the internet in this 6 page paper on gender differences. Statistics reveal that more men are using the internet as society encourages males to pursue the sciences, while discouraging females. Solutions to the problem are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

15 pages. Computer games have been shown to be just as popular among the female population as among the male, but the fact is the computer gaming industry has not caught up with society. While society is striving to bring about equality among the sexes we find that computer games are doing more ...

A 3 page paper which examines the overall themes seen in Renaissance writings by women. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of women and technology and focuses on the controversial 2000 study published by AAUW. What can be done about the gender gap in computer science is discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 3 page paper considers the way in which technology is gendered with women failing to gain the same benefits and job opportunities as mean. The paper examined how and why this is the case. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 8 page paper argues that The Odyssey by Homer, Antigone by Sophocles and Lysistrata by Aristophanes, provide a view of the role of women as progressing from an idealized model of womanhood that was restricted to family roles, to a recognition of the bravery and strength that can be a female attribute. No additional sources are listed. ...

An 8 page evaluation of the stereotypes which insist that women prefer one type of science fiction while men prefer another. Examines "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. LeGuin, and "Neuromancer" by ...

This 5 page paper studies works written during the 1800's to demonstrate that women were portrayed in detrimental ways. Zola's Assommoir and Marx's works are used to make the point. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 7 page essay/research paper that contrasts and compares the early feminism of Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, and Virginia Woolf who wrote A Room of One's Own in 1928. While different in context and writing style, these two writers made many of the same points, as ...

An 8 page essay that analyzes four stories by nineteenth century author Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour," "Ripe Figs," "A Respectable Woman," and "The Storm." The writer argues that Chopin, as a nineteenth century woman, focused her writing on the emotional experience of the women of her era. While many of these ...

This is a 5 page paper discussing themes consisted and found within Morrison’s “Sula”, Anzaldua’s “Borderlands” and the poetry and writings of Namjoshi and Hanscombe and Willis. Themes of cultural dichotomy, opposing forces, self and identity are consistent throughout writings by women minorities. In Toni Morrison’s “Sula” and Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands” both describe situations of ...

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the concept of marriage and the role of women through assessments of the views of St. Augustine, St. Jerome and a number of other writings. This paper assesses the substantial directives for marriage outlined in the writings of religious philosophers and the way in which these ...

An 11 page discussion of feminist preferences and content in science fiction. Contends that the creation of the literary genre of “feminist science fiction” is in reality an injustice to feminist as that genre makes the assumption that writing content and preference is determined by gender. This genre requires a literary work to ...

An 11 page paper discussing changes in women's conditions over the 19th and 20th centuries from the perspective of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789). In contrast to the conditions that existed before the Declaration was issued, it can be said that its points have been fulfilled. The position that women now ...

A 5 page essay that analyzes Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Woolf pictures women and men as being both "locked out" and "locked in" by the boundaries of these roles. In exploring the ramifications of this perspective, Woolf shows how writing is not simply an effect of innate talent, but it also ...

This 5 page paper looks at gender and society and whether or not economics plays a key role in equality. The paper contends that economics is separate and apart from other factors. Writings by Hartmann and Engels are utilized in the discussion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

In this well-written 6 page essay, the writer discusses sociobiological theory -- asserting that women's roles are not biological..they are created by society. Gender stereotypes are discussed in considerable detail and arguments are made about whether or not the Feminist movement is truly definable as a move for equality or superiority. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 4 page paper looks at 2 articles written in the 1970’s concerning the role of women and their subjugation and assesses whether or not there have been any changes over the subsequent 40 years. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the changes seen for women’s rights since the writing of Friedman’s “Feminine Mystique.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.