This seems to reinforce the fact that it was very difficult for women to remain economically stable if not married. ... When a woman married she lost all legal status. ... Elizabeth Wolstenholm Elmy who was on the Married Women's Property committee helped this along. In America women were given legal status when married in 1848 under the Women's Property Act. This Act meant that married women were able to acquire and retain assets independently of their husbands. ...

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• Approx Pages: 19

Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

According to Rob, the best song ever recorded is "Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye (Hornby 237). ... I"m asking you baby to get it on with me. ... Let's get it on! ... Though technically they weren't married, Rob expected Laura to serve the function of a stereotypical wife. ...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In order to grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. What is feminist theatre? Is it concerned with women as performers, women dramatists o...

• Word Count: 3095
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Men who witness abuse while growing up as a child, who have been unemployed, who are married in a common law relationship, and those who have a low family income are more likely to adapt a patriarchal ideology which in turn is more likely to lead to an abusive male partner. ... More work is needed to establish the causal sequence leading to re-victimization since it is unknown how childhood experiences of violence gets translated into adult aggression. ... Marital status measures grouped widows, married and common-law women together. ...

• Word Count: 3590
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Men who witness abuse while growing up as a child, who have been unemployed, who are married in a common law relationship, and those who have a low family income are more likely to adapt a patriarchal ideology which in turn is more likely to lead to an abusive male partner. ... More work is needed to establish the causal sequence leading to re-victimization since it is unknown how childhood experiences of violence gets translated into adult aggression. ... Marital status measures grouped widows, married and common-law women together. ...

• Word Count: 3590
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate