YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Cultural Construct of Gender
Essays 151 - 180
author notes interestingly, though not surprisingly, that 90% of the people who buy greeting cards are women. That, right there, i...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...
the role of aggressor. Kimmel (2000) has observed that all cultures share the concept that men and women are different, and that...
A 16 page essay exploring gender roles as they are affected by the media and by video games. These influences promote aberrant vi...
than she is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball ...
through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...
husband. In many physical abuse situations, no one person controls all aspects of the home other than the male, including all pro...
commonly associated with one gender or the other. It can be hypothesized, in fact that:...
are certainly holes in the argument because one cannot deny the existence of gender and gender preferences in society. There is mu...
gender suspect, or at least something that does not fit neatly into the male/female paradigm. This author expresses a view on soci...
In five pages this paper examines how male gender roles are defined in a consideration of The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarc...
In eight pages the gender views presented in Saturday morning television cartoons Muppet Babies, Captain Planet and Looney Tunes' ...
people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, sh...
Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel is the focus of attention here. Gender is discussed in this context. Woolf seems to claim that gende...
Gender is discussed in the context of this Shakespearean play. Gender issues are carefully evaluated. This twelve page paper has ...
so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...
human embryos start out as females; they become males when (if) the Y chromosome, which is inherited from the father, is added (Vi...
The relationship between hormones, behavior and gender identity is explores in this three page paper. It also touches on the contr...
ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill uses disruption in gender to bring into focus the repression of gender roles in the larger society. ...
to be the coldly practical sex, while emotionality is considered to be a trait of the masculine gender (Holme, 1972). The people o...
This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of Salmon Rushdie and Conan Doyle in respect to gender roles. The concept of...
the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...
Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
456). Boas stated that "The physical inferiority of the Negro race, if it exists at all, is insignificant when compared to the wi...
and Erhardt studied a group of girls who had been wrongly identified as boys at birth, and originally raised as boys. They stated ...
has been filled. Kimmel (n.d.) states that today "or a colleague of the other sex who does the same job, for the same...
much of her research on the importance of masculinity in Palestine, and how the Israeli occupation of their homeland has shaped th...