Women and depression: prevalence, risk factors, and treatment approaches
This research paper looks at how women are affected by depression. Since this problem is considered one of the major health issues going forward for women, it is necessary to understand what risks are associated, what symptoms need to be looked for, and what treatments are available. The causes and the treatments are fluid because the understanding og this condition is growing as the research into it gets more exact.
Multicultural literature: themes, contexts, and critical perspectives
This paper is to show the diversity of the different cultures. The main aim is to highlight the diversity in the form of literature. Through different research methods, the paper has been compiled with the help of different reference sites and libraries.
There are different pieces of literature listed in the paper. The main aim of this is to show the different variance of culture in literature. The main focus of the paper is children's books. There is a vast variety of different story books for children. Some are universal, while others are culture specific.
This list is based on such culture specific stories for children to read. This list consists of books which are suitable for children in grades K to 8.
Gilman Was a Social Activist and Herself
Charlotte Gilman's the Yellow Wallpaper is a haunting semi-autobiographical article of mental dementia where a woman is imprisoned in a room by her male guardians – her doctor, her brother, and her husband – allegedly for the sake of her health. Forced to stare for hours on end at wallpaper in her room, the woman sinks into mental psychosis. The story comes alive particularly because Gillman herself experienced mental dementia. She lived during that period, suffered from contemporary medical advice that proffered to ‘cure' the problem, and angered at chauvinist anti-female bias that reduced women to male ownership capturing and killing them, poured all in her story. Women, Gilman seems to tell us, can free herself. But it takes immense will and effort to do so since socialization and convention has been so strong. It needs the combined effort of womanhood in general to help females free. And once free, women can crawl around the room as she pleases.
"I've got out at last," says the character, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"
Gilman's experience brings the "Yellow Wallpaper" to live and her social activism is the stimulus behind the story telling's – women all over the world – to fight for their freedom.