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The Biological, Psychological, and Social Obstacles to Understanding Transsexuality

the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...

Boeing - Corporate Culture

conducted under the recommendations of their lawyers (Holmes and France, 2004). Worse, Boeings compensation manager directed emplo...

Hopi People and Culture

the groups grabbed the largest ear of corn for themselves, but one leader remained until all the rest had chosen. He moved forward...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Hernandez/Buena Vista Social Club

Other" (Hernandez 63). Cooders own statements, as quoted by Hernandez, support this position. Another point made by Hernandez is...

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...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

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, Surgery, and Hypothermia

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

Nursing and Gender Role Stereotyping

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

Slavery Development

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

History of Literature and Changing Character Gender Roles

around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...

Quran and Woman by Amina Wadud

within a larger holistic framework. For instance, in considering the first verse of the surah, which is entitled "Women" and dis...

Republic by Plato and its Concepts

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

Movie Fight Club and Gender in Culture

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...

Social Construction and Gender Roles

Smiler (2004) found that many of the socially constructed ideas about masculinity that are prevalent in American culture were prob...

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 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...

Gender Roles and the Effect of the Great Depression

deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...

Families, Gender, and Cultural Roles

paper, well examine the structural-functional paradigm and determine how it pertains to the role of gender in the family. Well the...

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...

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...

Work, Women, and a Constant Balancing Act

In eight page this paper discusses working women in an overview of the delicate balance women must maintain between home and work,...

Chapter Overview of 'Family, Gender and Employment'

In three pages this paper discusses this chapter in terms of the contemporary dual income family and also discusses gender bias an...

Family Structure of the Cherokee

In nine pages this paper examines the matrilineal family structure of the Cherokee in terms of gender roles, marriage determinatio...

Aspects of Child Development

In seven pages the growth of a six year old child is considered in terms of gender role, language, physical, emotional, and motor ...

Modern Society and Gender Roles

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how gender roles are defined regarding men and women in Iron John's Regarding the Dif...

Researcher's Role, Collecting Data, and Qualitative Research

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the researcher's role in qualitative research in a consideration of subject knowledge, prep...

Christianity and Women

This paper examines Christianity and how gender influences the roles played by women in five pages. Two sources are cited in the ...