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Gender Roles and the Petrachan Sonnets of Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth

This paper considers gender role concepts featured in the Petrachan sonnets 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus' by Lady Mary Wroth and 'As...

'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf and Its Modernist and Gender Implications

In six pages this paper examines the gender and modernist implications of this work by Virginia Woolf. Three sources are cited in...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Characters of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne

In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...

Fairytales and an Application of the Theories of Marshall McLuhan

Textual message transmission as theorized by Marshall McLuhan is applied to gender stereotyping in fairytales in a paper consistin...

Gender Roles, Photography, and Cindy Sherman

setting, however, the model would be male and dressed in a costume of the old west, complete with chaps, spurs, boots and a cowboy...

Male and Female Communication

In eleven pages communications between males and females are examined in terms of the importance of gender in interactions among c...

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...

The Brooding Woman of Paul Gaugin

In five pages this paper analyzes the famous painting by Paul Gauguin with style, gender, social implications, and the artist's re...

Leadership Opportunities and Gender

Gender roles and power as it appears in popular culture are issues discussed. Various issues concerning leadership skills and opp...

Racial Classification Issues

In five pages this paper examines the texts 'Looking White People in the Eye Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classroo...

Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill

In five pages Burke's pentid model is used to analyze the play's themes of class, gender, and race. Four sources are cited in the...

Tradition and Changes of Japanese Women

In five pages this paper discusses gender perceptions in Japan in a consideration of the traditional images of women and recent ch...

French Politics Parite Movement

changed to reflect equality between men and women - but in comparison to countries such as women it is evident that French women a...

Computer Anxiety and Gender Differences

In six pages this paper discusses how computer anxiety may be gender based with a consideration of 3 studies in which a correlatio...

John Coggeshall's 'Ladies Behind Bars'

of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...

Gender and Employment Segregation

organizations. This pattern persists despite increasing proportions of women with educational credentials and their entry, especi...

Women and Gender Roles in Literature

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

Race, Gender, and Class According to Georg Simmel and Max Weber

made up of fundamental interactions between individuals and that the unification of men has led to social laws that further define...

William Shakespeare's Place and Political Issues

would, therefore, perhaps be useful to look at three of Shakespeares play from the point of view of specific political angles, and...

Television Series Sex and the City and Gender Communication

we assume they should be able to understand each other...The obstacles in cross-gender communication are often greater than those ...

Article on the Risks Associated with Eating Disorders and the Effects of Family Environment and Gender Roles

suffering from them lack the capacity to understand the grave nature of the effects, but most theorists agree that anorexia nervos...

Social Barriers of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

and even sexual orientation. Since the advent of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, societal restrictions and limitations ma...

Medieval Romance Silence by Sarah Roche Mahdi

In six pages this paper discuses the nature vs. nurture conflict affecting Silence in terms of gender roles and how her father Cad...

The Goddess vs. Christianity

Many modern feminists have embraced the worship of the Goddess as more liberating and less patriarchal than most mainstream monoth...

Colonial Latin America and Social Hierarchies

imperialism of the past 500 years. Social Hierarchy The social histories of nations throughout Latin America provide important i...

Patriarchal Mongolia and Gender Equality

highly insulted. That is just one example as to why it is important to understand differences in cultural backgrounds, particularl...

Horror Films and Gender

Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...

Gender Based Methods of Interrogation and Law Enforcement

In fourteen pages this paper examines city police officer development, career planning, and studies pertaining to interrogation th...

Victorian England and the Differences Between Men's and Women's Roles

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...