YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Cultural Construct of Gender
Essays 511 - 540
man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...
makes men the center of her life. In fact, Beatrice makes it clear that she has no wish to marry, and thinks very little of most ...
and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...
of both a man and a woman. These are considered to be pure beings made of Divine Consciousness which can be whatever they need t...
we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...
this positive assertion hold fast into the next millennium, or will women continue to be exploited for their contributions to a pr...
different races or ethnicities on the payroll. It has to do with gender, age, background, nationality, talent, skills, knowledge l...
that a female writer needs a room of ones own, she means this both figuratively and literally. She says: "All I could do was to of...
it would be quite difficult to effectively heal the afflicted. The goals of treatment are of course to help the client to reduce ...
notes that the tradition of cruising for "pen pals" through contact ads, as he calls them, got its popularity because the ". . . U...
beer commercials with the husbands drinking beer in a bar while the wives dutifully stay home taking care of the children and the ...
come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...
Gilligan summarizes this by saying that male morality has a "justice orientation", and that female morality has a "responsibility ...
play activity. The point is that both ways of relating to children are important for their overall development. This conception o...
with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...
lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...
ever after, and the castle needed to be cleaned. The whole fantasy fell down around the ears of many housewives in the fifties and...
the feminist movement served to establish a semblance of organization between and among the foundational elements of contemporary ...
support that assumption. Many people know someone who is thin as a rail and eats slowly and deliberately, actually consuming ver...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
are the teen is going to be viewed as more of a rebel and therefore treated with more disregard. There are so many examples of in...
What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...
2002). The way in which the curriculum is delivered under the current system focuses heavily...
of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...
women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
and political involvement. Centuries later, women are still battling against patriarchal control even within progressive and demo...
result of their employment and the latter to personal relationships. Under common law, assault and battery can constitute ...
popular culture today. It is though advertisements, movies, radio broadcasts, even bill boards that we have filled the cultural v...
as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...