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Essays 1981 - 2010

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

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

Cultural Differences Between How Japanese and Americans Communicate

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

Women in Sub Saharan Africa and High Rates of HIV and AIDS

on attachment to tradition and culture. Many aspects of this topic are explored and some conclusions drawn are only on the periphe...

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...

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 Prejudice and Labor Law

to be aware of all state and federal laws concerning discriminatory employment practices ("Overview" 1.html). The legal issue pres...

Process of Jury Selection and Discrimination

OJ jury, they might have convicted him. Much attention has been paid to race and gender as a result of Batson v. Kentucky, a case ...

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...

Slave Narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Arn't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Compared

on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

special accommodations. In respect to race, sometimes there is reverse discrimination. Some believe that the black man has a nat...

Ethics and Communication

2. Posture is also an important element of non verbal communication. The way an individual sits or stands and places their hands w...

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...

Voltaire's Candide, Misogyny, and Gender Bias

his audience, and this is something that will probably change the world for the better. He wants to display evil in such a way tha...

Parents in Prison and the Psychological Effects on Their Children

in either federal, state, or local correctional facilities in 2002 it is imperative that we try and determine just how the above f...

Global Problem of Women as Victims of Violence

These lost days, lost days that have the potential to represent some twenty percent of a womans life, leave many psychological and...

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...

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...

Deborah Tannen's Gender in the Classroom

think or "tell" people what to do where women are more likely to suggest something. Tannen does recognize, however, that in our...

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...

Male Gender in Charles Atlas Also Dies

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

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...