Gender Relations
Essays

Women have contributed to the history of the world from the beginning of time. Their stories are found in legends, myths, and history books. Queens, martyrs, saints, and female warriors, usually referred to as Amazon…

This is a three page paper about women in the Mediterranean or gender in the Mediterranean. In practice, the paper is a book review about Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed. It incorporates two book reviews of Ahmed's book as well as two articles that are not about Ahmed's book but which are about gender and Islam. All this is synthesized in a three-page essay.

Females in Victorian Adventure Literature

This paper examines symbolism and gender politics in Vera Chytilova's 1966 film Daisies. The paper situates Chytilova's film in the political and social situation of Czechoslovakia in 1966--a country that had ostensibly emerged from Roman Catholicism into Soviet-style Communist modernity. This particular social context informs the gender politics of the film, and the paper investigates some aspects of Chytilova's gender politics with reference to the larger historical context of the work.

In tracing the historical etymology of the word "monster," the Oxford English Dictionary offers a primary definition of something to be stared at or marveled over (from the same root as "demonstrate") but notes the…

What was meant by the Cold War? Before defining the cold war, authors Bentley and Ziegler go into great depth to lay the foundation for the origins of the Cold War. More than sixty million people perished during WWII…

Women and the Information Technology Industry: Where is the Attraction?

The paper focuses upon the themes of space and confinement in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The paper asserts several arguments for how space is metaphoric for the female experience in the time the pieces was composed, at the close of the 19th century. The paper makes continuous reference to content from the story to support views and construct counterarguments.

The field of clinical psychology emerged as a viable method through which the theoretical foundations of cognitive studies could be effectively applied within the clinical setting to prevent and treat psychological syndromes. Derived from the first clinical psychology work conducted by Lightner Witmer in the late 19th century, and expanding throughout the 20th century as diagnostic tools were refined and classification systems for mental disorders were standardized, modern clinical psychology has been adapted to fulfill a niche within a whole host of divergent fields, including criminal justice, the social sciences and gender relations. Clinical psychologists premise their work on the use of empirical analysis to accurately investigate matters of cognitive processing, psychological assessment and mental illness, with the administration of personality tests, neurological scans and clinical interviews the most frequently utilized diagnostic resources. As clinical psychology expanded the base of knowledge pertaining to the human brain's highly refined system of functionality, as well as the dysfunction which so commonly afflicts the elderly and mentally ill, the field expanded into other practical applications such as family therapy, child psychopathology and gerontology. One of the most effective examples of clinical psychology being integrated within another field of study has occurred within the criminal justice system, as criminology, psychopathology and forensic psychology have all developed largely through the dedicated research of specialized clinical psychologists.

In response to innovations in military armaments, the search for improved body armor for military and law enforcement personnel has been the focus of intense research for several decades.