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Gender Relationships Across Cultural Lines

Few things have changed as much as gender roles and expectations in the 20th century. This paper examines ideas on gender among va...

The Dream of the Red Chamber and Gender

men have very similar qualities to one another and the women also share similar features but may be split between two prototypes a...

Working Women on Barbados

means suits and high heels, yet their work is paid roughly the same as factory workers. This means that, in order to maintain the ...

Alcestis by Euripides

In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...

Gender Theory Illustrated in Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill uses disruption in gender to bring into focus the repression of gender roles in the larger society. ...

Literature and Gender Issues

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of Salmon Rushdie and Conan Doyle in respect to gender roles. The concept of...

Male Gender Role Definition and Understanding

In five pages this paper examines how male gender roles are defined in a consideration of The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarc...

Romance, Desire and Social Norms

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 ...

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

Gender And Socialization: Nature Or Nurture?

in the field of child development have consistently found that this incongruous approach parents have toward their children begins...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

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 ...

A Review of The Role of Women in Human Evolution

occurred in humans as a whole over time. These changes included an increase in brain size, changes in teeth, a transition from wa...

Othello and Gender Roles

rebellious for "she chose the man who she wanted to marry and felt it unnecessary that her father intervene in their relationship....

Feminism and Ursula K. Le Guin's, Sur

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

Money and Erhardt Theories on Gender

and Erhardt studied a group of girls who had been wrongly identified as boys at birth, and originally raised as boys. They stated ...

Gender Norms in American Society

the role of aggressor. Kimmel (2000) has observed that all cultures share the concept that men and women are different, and that...

The Female Rejection of Feminism

more similarities. The terms masculinity and femininity are no longer considered genders as much as a state of mind and a social c...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

New Zealand's Working Women

is the only one who bears children and can feed them from her own body. She can be raped. She can do or endure all of these things...

Women and Depression

by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45) -- and this lists but a few of many such manifestations. Depression related to eati...

Japan and Gender Differences

were related to religion. Certain scripture regularly challenged women to disprove that they were inferior-to not agree was heres...

Women's Rights, Working Hours, and the 1908 Case of Muller v. Oregon

law passed in 1905 that prevented the women working for more than ten hours a day. Muller argued that this was unconstitutional, a...

Issues in African History

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Men’s Opinions of Women’s Narratives

no man would accept the restrictions put on womens lives by these practices: they simply would not stand for earning less, or bein...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

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...

Transgenderism: A Psychological Disorder

Manual (DSM) III, transgenderism has long been described as a psychological problem due in great part to the manner by which child...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner

In five pages this essay considers feminism and how the life of Mary Wollstonecraft shaped her women's rights activism. There are...

Knowledge, Domination, and Black Feminism

The impact of increasing knowledge on black women resisting domination are considered in this examination of evolving black femini...