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    How women are presented as ‘victims’ in both the novels‚ An Inspector Calls and Of Mice and Men Two characters that could be portrayed as victims of society are Curley’s wife from ‘’Of Mice and Men’’ and Eva Smith from ‘’An Inspector Calls’’. Both characters are really similar to each other; they are young and both wanting a better life. Eva Smith lost both parents and lost her last two jobs because her boss thrown her just because she argued for a bigger pay for the workers who puts in so much effort

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    Views on women -Nietzsche wrote "Women are essentially unpeaceful" and "Man is for woman a means; the purpose is always a child. But what is woman for man?" The answer to this question (as well as the question you pose) is difficult to ascertain and there are a number of opposing and complex views on how he regarded women. -Hence‚ Derrida claims that for Nietzsche‚ there is no eternal essence of womanhood. -Nietzsche’s view of women is explicitly based upon their role as potential mothers -

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    ii ABSTRACT Within the last few decades‚ many of the efforts aimed at preventing domestic violence and helping victims have focused on violence against women. In fact‚ in social and legal venues‚ domestic violence is often exclusively considered a women‟s issue. However‚ domestic violence‚ particularly intimate partner violence‚ does not discriminate on any basis‚ including gender. This research focuses on male victims of domestic violence in order to show that domestic violence is a human issue

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    research to include the integrated approach to eliminate VAWC‚ nature and root causes of VAWC‚ battered woman syndrome‚ violence within lesbian relationships‚ violence committed against marginalized women‚ rehabilitation of VAWC perpetrators and documentation of good practices as bases for policy formulation and program development. Since the passage of the Law‚ the Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and Their Children (IACVAWC) member agencies have made significant accomplishments in the

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    Akhil. "How Women Won the Vote." Wilson Quarterly 29.3 (2005): 30-34. Literary Reference Center. Web. 15 Mar. 2013. < http://proxygsu-aut1.galileo.usg.edu/login ?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=17662246&site=eds-live&scope=site>. In the article “"How Women Won the Vote"‚ Amar discusses how women earned the right to vote. She discusses how the west offered women the right to vote in order to get more women to move into the location. She discusses how women vote affected

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    How much has the role of women changed in the last 30 years? Since the introduction of the pill on the NHS and the equal pay act we have seen massive changes in how women are viewed in society. In this essay I will be looking at how these have changed societies views and how they have affected women. I want to research this topic as I believe that there has been great leaps forward in how women are able to live and how this is now affecting the rest of the world. I will be analysing some of the

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    Women and Slavery There are many misconceptions about how slavery affected women. Slavery was different for women residing in the North and South and both slave and free women had unique experiences based on their location. Female slaves had some of the longest work days‚ as their work was never done‚ and faced challenging circumstances that male slaves would never encounter. Inversely‚ female slave owners also had varied experiences and diverse relationships with those in their property. All

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    Rough Draft By: Bella Swarr “Free a man to fight” was a popular slogan for working women during WWII. How did women contribute to the war? When the U.S. was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor‚ America decided it was time to join the war effort. This required men to leave work and home to fight for their country. Before the war‚ women who worked had “traditionally female” professions which were sewing‚ typing‚ and stay at home mothers raising their children. When war began‚ “quickie marriages became

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    How the Media Failed Women in 2013 If you pick up a newspaper‚ magazine‚ or‚ if you’re feeling especially brave‚ turn on a TV then you will be blasted by millions of ads with heavily photo shopped and over sexualized women. The successes of women in 2013 were countless yet we don’t talk about or celebrate them. Instead we revert back to sexist advertising‚ over sexualizing women in popular culture‚ shaming women over their sex lives‚ underrepresenting female protagonists in film and television‚

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    that it ‘contains no important woman character’. How are women presented in The Great Gatsby‚ and how can this be compared with the presentation of women in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men? Initially‚ it appears that the women characters are seen as inferior and are significant only in the relationship to male characters. A distorted view could be shown as both texts are written by male narrators. F.Kerr said that Fitzgerald felt “women are so weak‚ really- emotionally unstable- and their

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