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The 'Glass Ceiling' in Australia

it appears that the same is true in Australia as well. The existence of the glass ceiling in Australia may well be a...

Overview of Pentecostal Religion

Board of Directors, by a two-thirds majority vote, can suspend or expel a member (PFWB, 1999). Issues that are grounds for expulsi...

Society and Gender

society (Peters 913). Boys are encouraged to embrace active masculine characteristics that will emphasize aggressiveness and enco...

Victorian England and the Differences Between Men's and Women's Roles

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

Analysis of Ang Lee's Film The Wedding Banquet

is partly based on the experiences of one of its writers, Neil Peng), focuses on Wai-Tung, a gay yuppie and his lover, Simon -- th...

Denise Chong's 'The Concubine's Children'

This 5 page essay demonstrates how the Chinese culture and its complexities determine how family relationships, marital relationsh...

Medieval Romance Silence by Sarah Roche Mahdi

In six pages this paper discuses the nature vs. nurture conflict affecting Silence in terms of gender roles and how her father Cad...

Article on the Risks Associated with Eating Disorders and the Effects of Family Environment and Gender Roles

suffering from them lack the capacity to understand the grave nature of the effects, but most theorists agree that anorexia nervos...

The Culture of Tibet

This 11 page paper discusses some of the facets of Tibetan culture, including the environment, politics, and changes in traditiona...

Social Influence and 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

Susan Bordo, Paulo Freire, and Making Social and Educational Connections

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the 'Hunger as Ideology' essay by Susan Bordo with 'The Banking Concept of Educati...

Epic of Gilgamesh and its Gendered Text

In 5 pages this epic is discussed in terms of the gender roles that the divine and mortal characters embody and the lack of female...

Lalla in Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this paper discusses the gender roles featured in this text with Grandma Lalla being the primary focus. There are n...

'The Tiger's Bride' by Angela Carter

Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...

Changing Gender Perceptions in Great Britain from 1865 to 1915

In five pages this paper discusses social pressures, imperialism, and increasing nationalism as causes of changing gender percepti...

Sexual Harassment and Counseling

In seven pages this paper discusses the constraints as a result of gender structure and examines the counselor's role in dealing w...

Women and the Concept of Gender in Paradise Lost

This paper looks at the conceptualization of gender within the context of Milton's Paradise Lost. The writer discusses some of the...

Feminist View on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Science

In seven pages this paper considers science as presented in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from a feminist perspective that includes...

Analyzing Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May

This 1988 text is analyzed in six pages and include the factors that fueled the enforcement of traditional and gender roles that r...

Gender, Surgery, and Hypothermia

to correct these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). If the hypothalamus senses that the body is too cold, the first autonomic response is ...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Women, Society and Gender/Rome, India and Han China

to many other like-minded societies, Romans looked upon women as possessions to be treated in often a violent manner. What this i...

Gender Laws Creation and Culture

(Yuval-Davis 621). One particular area in which gender is a cultural construct is the manner by which different societies r...

Rob Reiner's Movie The Story of Us, Making Decisions and Relationships

for. There is less time for the couple to enjoy each other, and Ben especially resents the lack of sexual spontaneity. In one fl...

Gender and Film Dangerous Liaisons

her moral virtue and the sanctioning of social conformists.. The story is set in France during the 1770s, a time often associat...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

The Tree by Maria Luisa Bombal

In five pages this paper examines the profound influence of gender roles in Hispanic society within the context of this work by Ma...

Emma and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

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...