In Isabel Allende's postcolonial novel Eva Luna, the ending both reinforces and subverts traditional ideologies in the Latin American society of that time which spanned from the 1930's through to the 1970's. ... Allende conveys traditional values of a Latin American society such as the subservience and inferiority of marginalised groups like women, people of mixed blood, or mestizos, and lower class persons - all of which characterise Eva herself. ...

• Word Count: 1714
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But for the sake of this essay, I will only be discussing Marxism theory and apply it to a small country located in Central America, Guatemala. ... Lets first discuss some background information on Guatemala, as mentioned previously it's a small country located in Central America. ... It has been demonstrated that women in Guatemala have suffered the most violence than in any other Latin country. Women in not only suffer from violence they also suffer for lack of health resources, "The overall situation in Guatemala, Central America, regarding programs caring for women's reproductive...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... African-American women took up leadership roles, as previously demonstrated by Baker and Robinson, while white college-aged women started getting involved with the SNCC, especially after Freedom Summer in 1964. ... Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outli...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

women and their resources were centrally involved in prevailing development policies and practices, though not in ways that benefited women. Appropriating women's resources - land, time, food and energy resources, paid and unpaid labor, community networks for maintaining health, political and econ...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This article provides information for gratifying the breach in research bewteen gender and society, and answers how bodily differences in each gender are assembled. Through semi-structured examination in five preschool classes, Karin Martin concludes that everyday activities, behavior, and use of ph...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School