The film Women of Tibet endeavors to give light on the probable happenings when in case two forces, the divine feminine and the sacred masculine commences to work together in a bid to create a more peaceful world.
Helga Huebach ('Ladies of the Tibetan Empire') argues that males in the 7-9th century used high profiled women as a means of establishing their political stability by their matrimonial alliances.Before 1959 and in the contemporary Tibet, most of the oracles were undoubtedly women. The research conducted by Hildergad Diemberge, (Female oracles in the modern Tibet) critically illustrates how political manipulation has given rise to the coming up of traditions to a great extent that contemporary oracles have influence as not only healers but political advisors. This however depends on the degree to which they are acknowledged by the community. (Ellen Bangsbo, Copenhagen) from tradition, Tibetan women enjoyed much moresocial status than other…...
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Reference
Amnesty International (1995) "People's Republic of China: Persistent Human Rights Violations in Tibet," May 1995, London, p.11
Barnet, R (n.d) Women and Politics in Contemporary Tibet
Information Office of the Tibetan Regional People's Autonomous Government, "Report on the Situation of Women in Tibet Today," March 1995, p.171
Gyatso, J and Havnevik, H (2005) eds. Women in Tibet. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 2005. 436pp. Illustrated. ISBN 0231130996 (paperback).
Note again that Gandhi, O'Connor and Thatcher all represented pre-aby oom women who had worked their way to the top after decades.
The period of the 1990's represents a greater participation of women in the workforce, including senior management positions. It also represents a significant increase in women's participation in politics. The questions of work-life balance continue with women; note that Nancy Pelosi managed a full-time career and raised five children at the same time.
The 1990's represents a time when African-American women rejoined the workforce and left the welfare rolls in significant numbers. From the time of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act to 2001, half of African-American women joined the workforce full-time. Although births out of wedlock continued at high levels, recent years have seen a reversal of this trend.
In conclusion, women's roles in the United States have changed more in the past 60 years than ever before. Women's participation…...
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Thryth is however easily rehabilitated by marriage, as she is to some degree functional within her society. Grendel's mother is not, and the only remedy for her type of complete evil is death. As her son, she is an outcast, and deserving of a death as such. Her evil has no place in a society that sees itself as predominantly good.
In Oedipus, the fulfillment of fate is the ultimate undesirable element, and can be compared to the idea of 'evil' in Beowulf. There is however no apparent duality that differentiates the women of the play, except in terms of maturity and in terms of their role as compared to that of men. Interestingly, a woman, Jocasta, is the cause of the undesirable event. She attempts to break the curse by what she believes is the murder of her son. Eventually however she is driven to suicide by her failure.…...
role effect women World War One.
Women during the First World War
This paper discuses in regard to women who were required to abandon their traditional role as housekeepers during the First World War. These individuals were virtually forced to employ all of their efforts in order to provide for their families, for soldiers on the front, and for their countries as a whole. Even with this, it is only safe to assume that the conflict also assisted them in being recognized on a social level.
In addition to the effect that it had on a series of countries and on society as a whole, the First World War also played an important role for women all across the planet. The conflict provided women with many opportunities, considering that they basically had access to areas that they could not interact with before. Most men had to leave their jobs with the purpose of…...
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Zeinert, Karen, "Those Extraordinary Women of World War I ," (Twenty-First Century Books, 2001 )
Role of omen Beowulf
Breaking the Dichotomy between Male and Female: The Role of omen in Beowulf
In her 1995 book article "The omen of Beowulf: A Context for Interpretation," Gillian R. Overing writes that "[t]he women in Beowulf, whether illegitimate monsters or pedigreed peaceweaving queens, are all marginal, excluded figures . . ." (Overing 1995). However, Dorothy Carr Porter writes that "Read within the context of the society presented in the text, it is clear that the women are central and important to the poem as a whole." She argues that when read carefully, Beowulf presents the female characters as women central both to the story itself and within the society presented in the poem, and far from "marginal, excluded figures," as Overing puts it (Carr Porter 2001).
Only eleven women are referred to in Beowulf, but their roles are crucial in depicting the social structure upon which this Anglo-Saxon epic depends.…...
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Works Cited
Carr Porter, Dorothy. "The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf." The Heroic Age
Issue 5, Summer/Autumn 2001.
Chance, Jane . "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother." pp. 248-261 in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Jamison, Carol Parris. "Traffic of Women in Germanic Literature: The Role of the Peace Pledge in Marital Exchanges." Women in German Yearbook, Vol. 20, pp. 13-36, 2004.
There are no interventions for women who face abuse or assault. Also, since the beginning of the conflict, there has been a dearth of women's input and participation in public life (Security Council).
In Somali, war and civil conflict have resulted in a shrinking of opportunities for women in public life. omen are further burdened with threats of violence and difficulties with meeting their household and care-giving duties. The inadequate and conflicting protections offered by the various Somali legal systems further places women at risk.
omen's role in peace-building
Given the strictures women face in both traditional and post-conflict Somali society, it is difficult to imagine how women could play an important role in peace-building and peace-keeping. However, this is precisely what Somali women and grassroots organizations have done. For example, a coalition of women's groups successfully lobbied for official participation in the March 1998 Conference on National Reconciliation that was convened…...
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Works Cited
Flanders, Laura. "Somalia turns corner." Working for Change. 21 November 2001
Garner, Judith. Somalia - The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women. New York: Pluto Press, 2004.
Jan, Ameen. "Somalia: Building Sovereignty or Restoring Peace?" Elizabeth Cousens, ed. Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies. New York: International Peace Academy, 2001.
omen in orld ar II England
In the history of the western world, women have often been placed in positions of subservience and submission to men. For many women in England, their ultimate goal in life was to marry well and to become mothers, carrying on the paternal name and the bloodline. omen who were not born advantageously were destined to lives of servitude coupled with this same marginalization. hatever the social class of the woman she was always lesser than her male counterpart. The only time that these societal impositions of women's roles were challenged was during a time of war. Particularly in the period of the Second orld ar, women were called to take up the positions that were vacated by their men. During that era, an estimated five million women of England fulfilled some role in assisting with the British war effort either at home or abroad. omen…...
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When women were also put into positions where they were fighting and dying for their countries. If the dangers were the same despite gender differentiation, then it only made sense that these same women should have the same chances and societal position as these men.
At the end of the war, women who had taken positions of employment outside the home were at a crossroads. Most were forced to retreat back into the homes and to give up any personal ambition in order to be the wife and mother. For other women, they were not willing to give up the personal freedoms they had earned during the war and fought tooth and nail to retain it. These women were often abused by the society psychologically and sometimes physically in attempts to influence the women to return to the status quo.
omen in History
Although women have largely suffered from political and economic subordination throughout most of the course of human history, women's roles changed somewhat throughout the bulk of the past millennium. Female roles, occupations, and social status vary from culture to culture and place to place. In general, however, women's roles in society have reflected their inferior political and economic status. Even when women work alongside their male counterparts, the majority of women in any given society have been deprived of the same economic, social, and political rights of men. In almost all cases and regardless of their social rank, women's roles center on their relationships with men and their being mothers.
In the middle ages, women were not expected to remain idle while raising their children. Rather, women worked hard in the fields, as agriculture was an integral part of the majority of European communities at the time. The status…...
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Halsall, Paul (2001). Internet Women's History Sourcebook. Online at .
Radek, Kimberly (2004). "Women from the Renaissance to Enlightenment." Online at .
'Western Europe and the Age of Cathedrals." (2001). The Encyclopedia of World History. Online at .
'Women's History: What You Need to Know." About.com. Online at .
Women's lives changed severely during the Second World War, as they found their roles and opportunities expanded. Husbands went to war or moved in other parts of the country to work in factories and the wives had to take their husbands' responsibilities. Women filled a series of jobs traditionally occupied by men because there were fewer men available in workforces.
Women everywhere had won the right to vote by the 1960s, with the only exceptions being Switzerland and several Islamic states. This is particularly worrying, when considering that Switzerland was a developed country at the time. However, it is explainable through the fact that the country was neutral during the war, and, thus, the men there were involved in most fights that the rest of urope was involved in. However, these changes did not have immediate significant repercussions on women's situation, not even in the countries where voting had political effects.…...
omen in Meiji and Taisho Eras
Both the Meiji and the Taisho periods in Japan saw women making some progress toward a more equal place in Japanese society and polity as the country as a whole struggled to create an identity for itself that was both modern and Japanese, a difficult task in a nation (and in an era) in which becoming modernized was seen as equivalent of so many as being equivalent to becoming esternized. As Gordon, in his 2003 A Modern History of Japan, and Sievers in her 1987 Flowers in Salt argue, these two periods saw greater freedom for Japanese women who began to take a more public role in both the family and the political life of the country. But the gains for women - as for men - were unequal, as both class and region (as well as individual talent an initiative) affected the ability of…...
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Works Cited
Gordon, Andrew. The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
Sievers, Sharon. Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1987.
ole of Women in Texas History
Prior to the Civil ights Movement and the legalization of the 19th Amendment during the 1950s-1960s, the women sector have been an active proponent for the liberalization and equality of their rights with that of male citizens in the country. Texas is an example of an American state wherein its women minority had illustrated an active movement for women's rights and liberalization from a highly patriarchal American (and Texan) society. Before the advent of the 20th century, Texan women are already mobilizing and 'invading' the legislative bodies of the government to implement and enforce policies that promotes equal opportunity for women and men in the social, political, and economic aspects of living, promoted the goodwill of the society through bills and policies approved that monitor the welfare of the youth, and prevent violence and juvenile delinquency from happening/occurring. These important policies were formed and implemented…...
ole of Women in Law Enforcement Agencies
Seminar type mini paper
Gender discrimination has long been a topic of controversial debate. While much has been done about it in the U.S.A. And Britain, where many laws and regulations have been passed in order to encourage the participation of women in all fields irrespective of their being a female, there still are differences.
These differences exist most specifically in areas that have traditionally been considered the domain of men. Law enforcement is one such field, where physical strength is considered a prerogative, which is the biological forte of men. One piece of work, which looks at the role of women in law enforcement agencies, is the book called: "Women in Control? The ole of Women in Law Enforcement," by Frances Heidensohn. (Heidensohn, 1995)
Analysis
This book starts of on an interesting note by drawing the readers' attention to the portrayal of women in the media, establishing…...
Heidensohn, F. (1995). Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Lonsway, D.K., Moore, M., Harrington, P., Smeal, E., & Spillar, K. (2003). Hiring & Retaining More Women: The Advantages to Law Enforcement Agencies. Beverly Hills: National Center for Women & Policing a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation .
Schulz, D.M. (2004). Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top . Westport, CT: Praeger.
Despite sharing a closer percentage of population with men in the world, women are often labeled to be the minority and the marginalized group. This is mainly because of their traditional role of being inferior and submissive especially in the usual patriarchy environment. Although the role of women has changed and improved over the years, they are still considered to be a deprived sector of the society.
While analyzing the role of women, history shows that it was not until the nineteenth century, that the role of women underwent an era of transformation. Before that, women despite their marital status were solely restricted to the household chores. This included child rearing, cooking, cultivation and preparation of food. However, teaching and the domestic service were the only jobs which were open for them. The period of industrialization was the time when there was a…...
ole of Women in the Church
One important thing to remember about the role of women today and in the past is that it is a dynamic relationship of various roles related to men, children, the household, and the general society of the time in question. This also relates to spirituality, Christianity, and the Bible. The Apostle Paul is notorious for his distinctions among the roles of women and men in the church. Many of today's churches, however, interpret these distinctions as manifestations of the society within which Paul lived and worked rather than as timeless, constant commandments from the mouth of God himself. Hence, for a female friend who is interested in going into the ministry, I would suggest that she first investigates the philosophies of the specific church she is interested in serving in this way. If the church itself places no limitations upon her role as potential leader,…...
Role of Women in Israel's Military
Israel is the only country in the world to have compulsory military service for women. Many often view this required service as a progressive system that places women on an equal footing with men. However, a closer examination reveals that Israel is just as terrified as every other nation regarding the participation of women in military combat. In fact, Israel's requirement for mandatory participation in a service that discriminates against women, may be just as draconian, if not more so, than discriminating against voluntary participants. This paper explores what function women really play in the Israeli military and how and why their limited role is slowly changing for the better.
The Defense Service Law of 1959 requires all citizens and permanent residents of the State of Israel to perform military service. This includes all women between the ages of 18 and 26, who are physically fit,…...
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1. The impact of the Salt March on the Indian independence movement 2. The role of women in the Harlem Renaissance 3. The influence of Chinese immigrants on the development of the American railroad system 4. The forgotten history of the Mexican Repatriation during the Great Depression 5. The impact of the Stonewall Riots on the LGBTQ rights movement 6. The role of Native American code talkers during World War II 7. The history of Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II 8. The significance of the Zoot Suit Riots in the history of civil rights in America 9. The contributions of Filipino farmworkers....
Begin with a brief overview of Jane Austen's life and importance as a literary figure. Highlight the main themes and issues that you plan to discuss in the essay.
II. Jane Austen's Early Life and Influences
Discuss Austen's upbringing in Steventon, Hampshire, and the influence of her family and social circle on her writing. Explore the impact of her education and reading habits on her literary development. Analyze the influence of her brothers' careers in the navy and clergy on her understanding of social class and gender roles.
III. Austen's Literary Career
Discuss the publication of Austen's early novels, including....
1. The role of the church in addressing social justice issues such as racial inequality, poverty, and immigration. 2. The impact of technology on the church and religious practices. 3. The controversy surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and the church's stance on sexuality. 4. The role of women in leadership positions within the church. 5. The challenges and opportunities of outreach and evangelism in a modern, secular society. 6. The church's response to climate change and environmental stewardship. 7. The intersection of religion and politics in contemporary society. 8. The rise of the "nones" - those who identify as having no religion, and its implications for the church. 9. The....
1. Explain the concept of the Forms in Plato's philosophy and discuss its significance in his understanding of reality.
2. Compare and contrast Plato's views on education with contemporary educational practices.
3. Analyze Plato's theory of justice as articulated in his Republic and consider its implications for contemporary society.
4. Discuss the role of women in Plato's ideal society as outlined in The Republic and evaluate his views on gender equality.
5. Explore the concept of "philosopher-kings" in Plato's political philosophy and assess their suitability as rulers.
6. Examine Plato's belief in the immortality of the soul and consider its implications for his ethical and....
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