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Gender Parity and Canada

cultural views on gender parity. It has been argued that gender parity in Canada has been achieved more than in many other Wes...

Gendered Interpretations and Development of Language Relating to Childhood Cognitive Development

century, psychologists, social theorists and educators have considered the notion of cognitive development and the progression of ...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....

Pay Disparity and Gender in both Private and Public Sector Jobs

existence and persistence of salary disparities in both the private and public sectors" (2001). Even when controlling for "human c...

Citizenship, Rights, Identities, and Gender

ideal women are inferior. Based upon a conviction of inferiority, male authorities were then able to design lifestyles for women,...

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...

Education: Micro And Macro

Stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations believe themselves as being subordinate to their white counterp...

Culture: Comparison and Contrast of Two Articles

In Peasant men cant get wives: language change and sex roles in bilingual community by Susan Gal the community being studied speak...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

Downsizing - Hypothetical Case Study

That means they have a direct impact on each other and change in one area will result in changes in the other areas. Summary of A...

Gender Communication Differences

Western communities are often characterized by a diverse cultural and social mix. Factors such as the economic, judicial, moral, ...

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...

New Orleans Literature: Race, Class and Gender

law or medicine or even pure science. I even dreamed of doing something great. But there is much to be said for giving up such gra...

Gender Roles and the Medical Field

of females in allopathic medical school constituted forty-five percent of the total number of students (Salsberg and Forte, 2002)....

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

very self absorbed.. He may recall taking care of her, taking her to ballet class, and claiming to be worried about her, but there...

Postmodernist Feminist Definitions Of "Sex" And "Gender"

of testosterone, while women have a vagina and estrogen/progesterone. Women grow breasts and have babies while men have greater b...

Films of the 3rd World and Representation of Social Change

In seven pages this research paper discusses how cinema of the Third World represents gender, race, imperialism, and colonialism. ...

Treatment of Gender Disruption in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Macbeth

This paper examines the treatment of gender disruption in these plays by William Shakespeare in 8 pages. Nine sources are cited i...

Laws and Athletes

In twenty three pages this paper examines whether or not laws ensure that there is an equal 'playing field' for athletes regardles...

Gender Attitudes About Sex, Chastity, and Marriage in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Daniel Defoe's Roxana

In nine pages the ways in which these novels reflected gender attitudes of the 18th century regarding chastity, sex, and marriage ...

Art and the Images of Women

themes and strategies I do wonder if women, who are artists, or artists who are women, consciously have themes of resistance. Fr...

Children's Socialization Development

In a paper consisting of 20 pages children's socialization development is considered in a discussion of various theories from thos...

Octavia Butler's Dawn, Xinogenesis

In five pages this science fiction novel is examined in terms of the relationships between genetically altered aliens and the huma...

The House of Bernarda Alba by Lorca and Class Consciousness

In six pages this papr considers issues of gender and social class within the context of Lorca's text. Five sources are cited in ...

Violence and Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In six pages this paper examines how the Narrative depicts violence as being sexually and slavery gendered. There are no other so...

Gender Perceptions and Prostitution During the Victorian Age

way that different people were seen. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

Muslim Culture's Gender Roles and Religion's Influence

bridges in Spain." After the fall of Rome, Spain was dominated by the Teutonic tribes, the Vandals, and the Visigoths in successi...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...