“Single Mothers’…” by Jackson and Scheines
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A 12 page analysis of the research article “Single Mothers' Self-Efficacy, Parenting in the Home Environment, and Children's Development in a Two-Wave Study” by Aurora P. Jackson and Richard Scheines. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: “Single Mothers’…” by Jackson and Scheines

“The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially” (2000) by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher
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This is a 6 page paper discussing the book “The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially” (2000) by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher. “The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially” (2000) by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher relates 18 years of social science research by Waite who is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Gallagher who is the Director of the Marriage Program at the Institute for American Values. Despite Gallagher’s professional position, the authors are quick to note that their text is not based on arguments of morals and religion but instead are based on years of social science data including factors such as health, finances, life expectancy and emotional well-being. Regardless of the basis of the text however, it has received mixed reviews since its publication. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: “The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially” (2000) by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher

“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko
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A 4 page report on the book “The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime” by Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa J. Pasko. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: “The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko

“The public marketing of sexually explicit material”
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A paper which looks at the arguments for and against the public display of sexually explicit materials on newsstands, with reference to the role of pornography within a sexually repressive culture and the level of harm which may be caused from the overt marketing of such materials.
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Paper Title: “The public marketing of sexually explicit material”

“Victim or Vamp: Images of Violent Women in the Criminal Justice System”
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A 3 page overview of the article by Chimene Keitner’s. This article is supplemented with the observations of K.B. Turner and James B. Johnson’s “The Effects of Gender on Amount of Bail Set”. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: “Victim or Vamp: Images of Violent Women in the Criminal Justice System”

“What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us, Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”: A Review of the Book by Danielle Crittenden
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A 3 page overview of the contentions presented by noted author Danielle Crittenden. Targeting an audience of women in their twenties, Crittenden analyzes the successes, failures, and shortcomings which she sees as characterizing the lives of her reader’s mothers, those women who stand at the height of the feminist movement of earlier generations, those women who gave up much of the status quo of a woman’s traditional world pursuits in favor of pursuing careers and establishing a type of autonomy from male influence which had never been achieved before. Crittenden examines the conflict between the values instilled by this movement into the daughters of these women and the innate biological drive young women have to form emotional commitments and to parent children. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: “What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us, Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”: A Review of the Book by Danielle Crittenden

“Women Have Always Worked”
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This 5 page report discusses the concepts presented in Alice Kessler-Harris’, a professor of history at Columbia University, book about women’s work outside the home. When she views the world in terms of the patterns associated with women working inside or outside of the home, it is clear that she has a clear understanding of the factors that determined where most women would do the most work as was decided by the economic conditions of society. Such has always been the case in America but it should also be noted that women have always worked. The differences are in definition, certainly not in the expenditure of physical energy. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
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Paper Title: “Women Have Always Worked”

“Women in Control?” by Frances Heidensohn
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A 5 page review of Frances Heidensohn’s book “Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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Paper Title: “Women in Control?” by Frances Heidensohn

“Women in the 20th century”
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A 5 page paper which looks at the changing role of women in society during the twentieth century, in terms of their position within the family, changes in employment legislation, and the ways in which social changes affected the position of women as a whole.
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Paper Title: “Women in the 20th century”

“Working Class Majority” and “Nickel and Dimed”
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A comparison of the content and message contained in these books by Michael Zweig and Barbara Ehrenreich. Each of these authors targets the latter half of the 1990s to present an expose of a societal situation which they find unacceptable. Both are concerned with the definition of class in America and the societal factors which interact to define the respective classes. While Zweig approaches the problems of class in America from a statistical perspective Ehrenreich takes a slightly different approach, shedding her identity as an award-winning journalist and infiltrating blue collar America as an unskilled worker. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: “Working Class Majority” and “Nickel and Dimed”