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CHILDREN, TOYS AND GENDER

Social scientists have struggled with and researched the idea of gender links, toys and differences for years. Studies ranging fro...

The Effects of Violent Lyrics on Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings

topic are the musical genres of heavy metal and rap. The term heavy metal was initially featured in the lyrics of the Steppenwolf...

Shakespeare’s “Merry War”: Gender Roles in “Twelfth Night” and “Much Ado about Nothing”

most famous lovers. The "merry war" referred to in the title is that which is waged by this pair; as Leonato says, "There is a kin...

Learned Gender

woman or man; the roles allotted to the sexes and similar issues. McCloskey enjoys being a woman, so much so that she is somethin...

Men and Women in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Woman in the Dunes”

that pushes her into insanity (Gilman). John is both a man and a doctor, and so presents a strong authority figure. When she firs...

Media Stereotyping of Race and Gender

freedom that I am today had I not begun to oppose that gendered notion of learning that suggests that politics is the realm of mal...

Gender Stereotyping on Television

1950s show "The Honeymooners", Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in "Lucy" the popular television show of the 1960s, Archie and Edith Bunker ...

The Social Construction of Gender Roles

in their lives or there is something wrong with them. Society also dictates the kinds of jobs that women can hold, if they have ...

Wollstonecraft's Greatest Contribution

been presented to the National Assembly in France" (53). It is interesting to note that when reading Rousseau she would become ang...

Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

Islamic Women: Feminist Influence

roles. Inasmuch as the barricade toward womens rights "remains deeply rooted in traditional Islamic culture" (Witte 2005:A24), it...

Social Reform Legislation Since WWII

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This sort of organized effort was necessary in order to chip away little by little at the m...

How Children Grow Up To Understand Genetic And Gender Differences

of how children understand the genetic implications of gender masculinity and femininity, with a prominent factor being that male ...

Do Global Issues Include Gender Discrimination and Gender Rights?

in turn participation in collective action" (p. 242). Allowing societies to deal with gender issues as they see fit enforces isol...

Characterization and Gender Stereotyping

Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...

Smiling and Gender Statistics

literature and through observation, regarding the central premises of James hypothesis. Comparative views of smiling can be ass...

Social Divisions Reflected and Reinforced by Representation of the Mass Media

culture may be seen as the culture of ordinary people, but has a basis in history, Strinati (1995), argues that this is usually se...

Gender Identity: The Role of Hormones and Environment

intervention to sculpt the individual into a better reflection of a particular sex in terms of their external genitalia. Parents ...

Race and Gender in Education

and the sexes, in particular with efforts like those put forth by the womens movement, to reshape not just male and female identit...

Gender Issues and Media Interrogation

open for great debate. It seems that often thousands of years, gender is still an allusive reality for most of us. Today, we live ...

'Hunger as Ideology' by Susan Bordo

In five pages the author's gender construction arguments as they address hunger issues are analyzed. One source is cited in the b...

Putting a Stop to Stereotyping

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the problem of ethnic, racila and gender stereotyping which occurs commonly in adult po...

Gender Roles in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In two pages this play is analyzed in terms of its representation of gender roles as manifested in the neurotic Hedda Gabler. The...

Canada and Gender Violence

a semblance of a reason why a man might turn into a monster, and it just might be that domestic violence and substance abuse are r...

Female and Male Inequality and Societal Consequences

leads to a number of societal dysfunctions such as unequal access to education, jobs and other societal positions. A number of so...

Gender Bias and the Developmental Stages of Kohlberg

can negatively influence a persons choice of careers in either science or mathematics (Adams, 1998). As a result, these fields ar...

Manufacturing Bad Mothers by Karen Swift

In four pages this report examines the issue of child neglect and the hidden realities represented by gender, race, and socioecono...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

Cinematic Gender Representation

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

An Othello Analysis

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...