1. Existentialism and Philosophy
However, it is not only religion that has placed these insurmountable hurdles on the path of women; but also culture, and periods in history. ... The main character of the play, Dr Heidi Holland, a savant art history professor at Columbia University, discusses the paintings of great female artists like Sofonisba Anguissola, Clara Peeters, Lily Martin Spencer with her class. She laments the exclusion of the names of these pre-twentieth-century female artists in art history text books, "Although Sofonisba was praised in the seventeenth century as being a portraitist equal to Titian, and at ...
The problem of abortion has existed for the entire history of this country (and beyond), but had never been addressed because discussing these issues was not socially acceptable. ... (See Endnote #4) This mentality continued on through 1989 during the Webster v. ... Ct. 3040 (1989)) case. ...
Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does n...
The forefather (scratch that, make it "foremother- even though this feminine term is not found in Webster's New World Dictionary) of the Women's Rights Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pointed out, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her- (Eisenberg 2). ... Surveying 350 divorced men in Texas from 1988-1989, the Washington-based Children's Rights Council found that their wives had filed for divorce in 75 percent of the cases. ...
There are legislations in place to protect children, the Children's Act 1989 and the Children's Equality Act 2010 aim to protect children is matters of inequality.'... (Pence and Paymar 1993) Domestic violence holds such a long history, there countless laws that have been passed, most of which have not been affective in solving the problem of abuse over hundreds of years. ...