Both Kuhlman and Woodworth-Ney note that there was no pattern in the way that different nations around the world introduced women’s suffrage. However, Woodworth-Ney does note that there was a pattern within the American West to the way that this right to vote was granted. Kuhlman discusses the definition of...

The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade (1973) was one of the most significant and influential pieces of legislation in American history, ensuring women’s reproductive rights for decades to come. This controversial decision legalized abortion in the United States and set the precedent that women rightly should have control...

In “PMS and the Biological Flaws of Womanhood,” Carol Tavris provides a scientifically-based argument that shows how hormonal studies in the 1970s and 80s did not fully explain the actual reasons for Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) because there never was any evidence for this occurrence. According to her research, the hormone...

The white girl in the story is not revealed. All the chapters in the story are named after women characters, but none is named after the white girl shot in the beginning. However, the shooting of a white girl at the beginning of the story portrayed the high level of...

What Were the Major Issues That Caused These Women to Move into a Public Sphere and Take to the Streets? Women were being treated as second class citizens being exploited in the workplace. Even though they may be considered unskilled, they were being paid a low rate working twelve- or...