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Blurring of Gender in the Films of Pedro Almodovar

In five pages this paper analyzes how this acclaimed Spanish director successfully achieves 'gender blurring' in his films. The b...

Feminist Playwright Caryl Churchill

In six pages the gender issues featured in Caryl Churchill's plays for BBC radio during the 1960s are examined. Two sources are c...

Religion and Women's Images

either they werent invited or were present and were later written out of the scriptures. This resulted in the Pali canon being der...

Anger in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid

In nine pages this research essay discussed how Kincaid employs language to express her anger over the imprisonment of 'foreign' l...

The Literature of the Caribbean

The writer analyzes the works of Caribbean literature by Walcott and others with regard to the way they handle issues of gender an...

American Subcultures, Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters, and the Writings of Kingston and Chavez

In five pages this paper examines how in Woman Warrior by Kingston and Face of an Angel by Chavez the authors present the mother a...

Battle of the Sexes in Lysistrata, Medea, Antigone, Oedipus, and The Oresteia

In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...

Aggression and Testosterone

through her person. This is not to say that girls are not capable of attaining substantial strength, endurance and a sense of agg...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Women's Basketball

In twelve pages this paper examines injuries women can suffer while playing basketball with the impact of gender upon the incidenc...

Gender and Violence in Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill

In seven pages these plays are compared and contrasted in terms of representation of gender and violence. There are no other sour...

Social Power and Gender Themes in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper examines the themes of social power and gender as they are represented in the drama by Henrik Ibsen. The...

Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

Avian Flu 2

include HPAI in a local bird population and contact with another patient with an unexplained repository disease and a positive res...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

The Evolution of Equality

The Declaration of Independence Despite these inspiring words, the battle towards equality was...

Dress as a Representation of Human Sexuality and Gender

by appearing well-dressed; he is also using clothing as a means to get her to surrender to him. The girl, who has fallen into the...

Canadian Professions and Patriarchy

Canada. Canadas blue collar workplaces and her professional workplaces alike are characterized by gender stratification. ...

The Lives of Men and Women in America

course, on the home front, many women complain that men simply do not do chores or take care of the children. Often, it is the cas...

Gender and Film: "Senorita Extraviada"

their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

What It Feels Like to Be a Woman: A First Person Essay

act in a gender-specific way. Actions are not necessarily indicative of gender. I am a woman and I decide how a woman acts. I act ...

Gender Differences In Development/Maturation

Toole, 1993). On the other hand, girls were found to develop the ability to hop and skip earlier and more effectively than boys (K...

Gender: “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf

that she is a woman, and the narrator states, "it may have been observed that Orlando hid her manuscripts when interrupted. Next, ...

Motivation in Managing Employee Relations; Change Over the Last Fifty Years

This 10 page paper looks at how and why the employment relationship has changed over the last fifty years, looking at issues such ...

The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice by Belknap

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

Gender Relations in "Middlemarch" and "Erewhon"

People who contract serious illnesses are "punished very heavily," but those who develop some degree of blindness or deafness afte...

Individual Behavioral Traits

a child develops, but perhaps even more importantly, the media and society affect how the child will be treated because of their e...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...