The first book I choose was an article written in the book Ceremony and Ritual in Japan by D.P. ... The book deals with the rituals in Japan and specifically the roles of women in both Shinto and Buddhist practices. ... The article in their book dealt with one of the new religions traditions in Japan that was founded by a woman. ... Martinez explains the social differences between genders very well when he describes a fishing households roles: "it was the job of the women in the house to prepare the food and go to the shrines and give thanks on the other hand it was the job of the men to tr...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

Calude's two main goals in this book are his quest for achievement and his quest for sexual fulfillment. ... Claude chooses the wrong women in order to help him gain acceptance from his family and Cather does a good job of taking all of the women in Claude's life and placing them into two distinct categories: safe and dangerous women. ... Claude "wished he could do something to help that boy; help him get away from the doctor who was writing a book about him, and the girl who wanted to make the most of himself; get away and be lost all together in what he had been lucky enough to fin...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. This Bildungsroman narrates the experiences of growing up in a Hispanic-American neighborhood in Chicago through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero, a fictionalized adolescent girl who is transitioning between childhood and adulthood. Due to parallels between the lives of Cisneros and Esperanza, Esperanza functions as a surrogate for Cisneros. Cisneros suppresses the milieu she witnesses as a child; therefore, when searching for her literary identity, she uses phantasies to channel those experi...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An author, Friedrich Engels, discussed in a book, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State about the evolution of marriage over time and how it evolved from generation to generation and how it all led to where marriages were in the 17th-19th centuries, which is important to understand as it helps shed light on the status of women. ...

• Word Count: 2740
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his apartment there are pictures of naked women, he even objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). ...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate