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Women's Roles in the Wife of Bath's and Miller's Tales
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A five page paper looking at these two stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." The paper enumerates a number of correspondences between the Wife of Bath, whose name was Alice, and Alisoun, the subject of the Miller's Tale. In both these tales, Chaucer shows that though women may not have had legal rights or political power, they clearly have the power of sex over men -- and they know it. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: KBchau17.wps

Women's Roles in Works of John Steinbeck
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A five page paper looking at three works by John Steinbeck: "Of Mice and Men," "The Chrysanthemums," and "The Pearl." The paper compares and contrasts the way women are portrayed in these three works, and demonstrates the emphasis Steinbeck placed on creating realistic, three-dimensional female characters. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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Women's Self-Actualization in Morrison and Plath
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a seven page paper looking at this issue as developed in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Sylvia Plath's poems "Mirror" and "Daddy." The paper shows that women are finally beginning to question modes of being that are founded in the expectations of men. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBsolom2.wps

Women's Voices: Kate Chopin and Luisa Valenzuela
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This 3 page paper compares the writing styles of Kate Chopin, a Victorian writer and the contemporary Argentinean, Luisa Valenzuela. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVChoVal.rtf

Women’s Friendship: “The Color Purple”
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A 5 page paper which examines the friendship of women regarding Celie and Sofia in “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAprpf.rtf

Women’s Literature
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A 6 page paper which examines what a reader could gain from reading three different pieces of literature written by, and about, women. The books are “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, and “Ghost Country” by Sara Paretsky. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAwmnbk.rtf

Women’s Power and Equality in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale”
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A 5 page paper which examines how these works symbolize women’s struggle for power and equality, and includes thoughts on how this topic remains relevant in today’s society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TGwifebath.rtf

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
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In five pages this paper examines how women refused the feminine roles assigned to them by their respective societies and cultures in a comparative analysis of the female protagonists in these plays. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGmednora.rtf

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants
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A 7 page paper which examines women’s rights in the 1900s and Ernest Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAwhele.rtf

Women’s Roles in Sembene’s “God’s Bits of Wood”
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A one-page paper on the political and social redefinition of women in Ousmanne Sembene’s novel. The paper points out that although historical records do not support Sembene’s tale of a female-led movement, even the degree of participation women did display required a significant amount of redefinition of gender roles in African society. Bibliography lists one source.
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