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Essays 1861 - 1890

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

Society, Biology, and Gender Identity

environment that causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology, but since ...

Content and Gender in Feminist Literature

Throughout history, until very recently, women have been little more than property, things men could do with as they pleased. But...

Gender Roles and the Mundurucu Culture

and status of the men and women were completely reversed: The men were confined to the separate houses in the village and the area...

Oedipus Rex, The Iliad and The Odyssey and how these works relate to Gender

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

Gender and Portrayal by the Media

to see such subjects as homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism, and transgenderism. These are concepts that run counter to ou...

Submissive Gender Roles in Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Cultural Differences Between How Japanese and Americans Communicate

in which: "most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed...

Nursing and Image

In four pages this research paper argues that nursing's image needs to be changed and focuses on accomplishing this through the in...

Information Technology Lessons, Student Performance, and Gender Differences

the division and difference that may exist within the classroom whether or not the digital divide has been overcome. One major d...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

Gendered Workplace and Women in Management Positions

in the workplace" (Craig, 1992, p. 299), as well as the upsurge in home workers required to meet the need of a growing industriali...

Effective Counselor Traits

or members of a family attempt to gain an understanding of self and others that will enable them to effectively solve problems and...

Gendered Issue of Domestic Violence

independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Themes of Gender and Race

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

peer pressure, societal norms, family expectations, all contribute towards "channelling" the individual into certain forms of iden...

Malcolm X and Richard Wright

of his entire life was dedicated to helping the race. Wright was a man simply seeking his own identity and he seemed to have no re...

'Professions for Women' by Virginia Woolf

and they only aggravate the gender issue by putting blinders on people so as to avoid the truth. A relevant phrase in liter...

Early Twentieth Century Gender Perceptions

observers of Indian culture more, the implications of homosexuality inherent in the berdache tradition or the idea that individual...

Analyzing E.M. Forster from a Feminist and Marxist Perspective

someone who loves him or someone who can raise him well? Etiquette, social constructions, values, class and other elements intrude...

Inequality in relation to Gender Issues

they get married, and then start the cycle all over again with their own children. Employment/Benefits Although more women ...

Gender in Classic Literature

of a womans time. However, the student will want to state, if one reads Eves apologie closely, then one can begin to see the femi...

Ancient Myth, Carl Jung, and Robert A. Johnson on Gender Psychological Differences

feminine principle in its archetypal form." It is the archetypal myth that serves as Johnsons primary guidance in underscoring and...

Ramayana and Gender Roles

around 1000 B.C. and the characters within the tale are considered as role models in dharma. Rama is considered the hero of the ta...

Book Review of Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835

Perdue (1999) examines the role of gender in Cherokee life during one of the most turbulent times of their history. During the...

Gender and 'Pickup' Lines

Look at the odds she said. It is during the day or early evening; there is good lighting; people are sober, and there is a slim p...