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The Woman Unafraid : Georgia O'Keeffe's Explorations of Female Sexuality
(2010)When Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986) began to garner attention in the world of art, thanks in large part to the marketing skills of New York gallery owner, publisher, and artist in his own right, Alfred Stieglitz, people ... -
A Woman's Business: Gender, Progressivism, and Anglo-Saxon Superiority in the Early Home Economics Movement
(2007)My research began in spring of 2006 and continued through December. Conveniently, Cornell University has assembled and digitized a wonderful collection of primary sources on the early Home Economics movement. From this ... -
A Woman's Place: Women in International Development and The United Nations Development Fund for Women
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A Woman's Prerogative : Female Painters in 16th and 17th Century Italy and the Netherlands
(2001)The author reviews the life and work of six women : Levina Teerlinc, Maria van Oosterwyck, Fede Galizia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, and Sofonisba Anguissola. She concludes that these six incredible, passionate ... -
A Woman's Worth: The Effect of Body Image On Kalamazoo College Women
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)I originally started specifically researching eating disorders. However, I felt that in order to appeal to a larger audience it was essential to expand my idea to include body image. Body image, for the purpose of this ... -
Women and Leadership: A Qualitative Analysis of Female CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)Although the "glass ceiling" metaphor has been used to explain the dearth of women in leadership positions, Eagly and Carli (2007) argue that "labyrinth" more accurately describes women's difficult career paths. Instead ... -
Women and Mathematics: A Working Voice?
(1990)Over the course of the past year, since the beginning of spring quarter 1989, I have been experiencing a gradual, but continuous, self-awakening as a human being, as a woman and as a student. The journey began in Women's ... -
Women and Print Culture: The Politicization of Women in the Revolutionary Era and Early Republic
(2011)The Revolutionary and Early Republic periods in the United States were tumultuous times, and created an environment of changing and evolving roles for women. The Revolution and its ideology that stressed liberty and ... -
Women and Religion: The Influence of the Catholic Religion on the Role of the Mexican Woman
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)The role of the woman in Mexican society and culture is a topic that has recently come to light and is being studied in greater depth by anthropologist, sociologists, and feminist scholars alike. Because the submissive ... -
Women and the United Packinghouse Workers of America: Gender Issues in Meatpacking in Ottumwa, Iowa and Chicago, Illinois
(2001)In order to understand the different courses two locals in the same union took, one must examine a variety of issues which contributed to the predominate worker consciousness in the locals. The composition and character ... -
Women At Work: An Informal Look at White Collar Working Women in the US, Japan, Russia, and Sweden
(1997)I chose to look at the conditions of working women for my SIP, because it is a topic that greatly interests me. After having observed some women at work, I wanted to know if the glass ceiling really existed, and whether ... -
Women in Business : The Power in Change
(2012)Women in Business: Power in Change has two main sections, and "experiential description and a "connection essay." The first section is a description of the author’s experience interning at North Star Marketing this past ... -
Women in Computer Science
(2016)Women have played a crucial role in the evolution of computing, dating as far back as the development of the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine, by Ada Lovelace in the 19th century. Yet even with this ... -
Women in Fairy Tales : From Myth of Courtesy and Female Subordination to Revisions of Feminine Strength
(1991)Both traditional and contemporary fairy tales relentlessly berate and demean their female characters, leaving them (the meek heroines) either virtually unprotected against the dangers of the world or forcing them (the evil ... -
Women in Leadership in the Church: An Exploration of the Biblical Evidence and Current Perspective
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)I grew up in the church, and always considered myself more than passingly familiar with Scripture. After all, I could name all the books of the Bible, and I always knew the answers in Sunday school. I remember being ... -
Women in Politics
(1972)This paper is an attempt to determine where women are now-- what their present political role is, what they would like it to be, and how they hope to achieve it. This report does not contain any controversial, ... -
Women in the Michigan Legislature: A Study of Demographic Factors of Their Constituencies 1960-1970
(1971)I have compiled demographic information on the legislative districts in which women have been elected to the state House and Senate from 1960 through 1968. It is my initial hypothesis that these districts share some ... -
Women in the Wilderness: Selected Novels of Margaret Atwood
(1994)I chose to deal with four of Atwood's eight novels: The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Life Before Man, and Cat's Eye. These novels span Atwood's decades-long career, from her first published novel to one of her most recent ...