... appeared to be male, yet ironically, the persuasiveness would require "the heart and stomach of a king" . The physical representation of Cleophila is paramount, Sidney has redefined the success of female leadership, inverting the theory of the King's two bodies Cleophila could be interpreted as a literalisation of Elizabeth, bearing all outward signs of femininity, but remains male in the body politic ... to discern whether Sidney intended Cleophila's address to the rebellious mob as an acute and literalised representation of Elizabeth and her rhetoric, or as his own vision of what Engl...

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... virtue and subsequent turn to violent measures is portrayed as a fatal consequence of a flawed social system rather than, as was the belief of the time, a violence innate to the female body. Manley is, very clearly, refuting the accepted ideals of feminine passivity and the defenseless position in which a blind execution of such ideals leaves women. However, rather than launching ... repressive societal standards women of the 18th century were subject to, Manley's novel employs a more subtle approach in highlighting the contradictory foundation upon which 18th-century concepts of feminin...

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... in adolescence which result in an internalized sense of self doubt or insignificance which often leads into the corruption of personal advancement of female adolescence into adult life. To understand the meaning of the title "Body Project", one must come to know and recognize the social ... that the title was chosen to show how girls came to define themselves progressively through their bodies, thus becoming the primary project of the female society. Brumberg argues that there is a mismatch between biology and culture in the lives of contemporary adolescent girls. She states that "Althou...

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... Matrifocal family would not be a universal social institution, as it would be looked down upon, also many of the functions would not be fulfilled either, this in a way corresponds to female headed families which Murdock believed was a "family gone wrong", thus not a viable nuclear family, as it was also not a "norm". In my opinion, in certain areas e.g. support for Murdock when ... everyone agreed that "female-headed families were families gone wrong" is a little too idealistic as at the end of the day the vital functions are being fulfilled. Arguments that go against Murdock that suppo...

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... the day, eventually formed the tradition of women writers that exists today. In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen hundreds came the strength of the few established female literary writers who pooled their efforts to form a community and build the women's literary tradition that exists today. In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers ... the formal introduction into the literary arts at university, as did her male counterparts, gave way to the denial of opportunity to converse on an educated literary scale with her female contemporaries. Furthe...

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Although intellectuals and activists existed advocating the intelligence, dignity, and intrinsic potential of the female sex during the Enlightenment and epochs prior, true advancements in the acquisition of rights only began to occur as the dawn of the twentieth century broke when impassioned women initiated a ... Convention, the following radical wave that emerged post-war in the 1960s had much further leftist ideology and had central focuses on female sexuality and reproductive rights as well as discrimination and female roles within the family and workplace. The female archetype or "cult...

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... analyses, particularly when surveying the representation of the anima. According to Jung, the anima refers to the archetypal female in mythology and religion as an embodiment of profound female attributes located in the male's subconscious. Dr. Joan Relke, in his article "The Archetypal Female in Mythology and Religion: The Anima and the Mother of the Earth and Sky" states that the ... ...

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... pointed breasts," and her "shining, splendid leg." What is stressed in Women of Algiers in Their Apartment is the texture and volume of the clothing and not that of the female flesh - even though the women wear low cut blouses Delacroix refrains from suggesting the swell of breasts; their chests remain flat without the slightest hint of cleavage. In fact the ... with the darkness of her skin, precisely molding her long waist, her curving back and pointed breasts" - Delacroix paints the women's dresses as a mere suggestion of the luminosities of the female body; the fabric is at times pa...

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... 's specific references of attractive men scoring an IQ 13.6 points above average and good looking women scoring 11.4 above "the norm" helps to draw in both a male and female audience by making the information more relevant to the individual reader. By referencing studies and statistics, as well as dispelling stereotypical beliefs, Panahi has brought to the audience's attention an ... of the reader by highlighting the fact that, according to Satoshi Kanazawa, the lead researcher of the London School of Economics, attractive, intelligent men are more likely to marry their female equivalent...

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... roles that are joint and that are segregated; there are few families where the male spouse helps out and does more 'house work' than the female, Just as there are some households where female work full-time and men stay home. Due to the research completed by Ann Oakley, sociologist would not agree that the roles between men and women have ... ...

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... to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women's movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to challenge many of the patriarchal views long held by Australian society. Many women began to campaign for equality and the ... would see this text as a good foundation for a marriage with its clearly defined roles for men and women, a blue print for a successful marriage. In conclusion, the contemporary, reader male or female of this...

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Like Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield, 'Jane Eyre' is a bildungsroman, a novel in which the protagonist must undergo a form of spiritual education, to overcome the obstacles they face throughout their lives. In this novel, Jane must overcome her fiery passions that are physically manifested by Jane's 'alter ego' Bertha Mason. Both of these characters, as well as others such as Helen Burns are all females who are constrained by societal conventions, yet subvert them, and arise with great force. From Jane's early ordeals with the Reed family, it is evident that she is a fierce...

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... for her obedient tone in 'his unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love' revealing the consequences of her preoccupation with the social obligation of an obedient female counterpart. Finally Othello's emotive dialogue 'I scarce did know you' upon Desdemona's 'guiltless death'emphasises how social influences which cloud the understanding of love lead to the irrevocable destruction ... ...

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... the notion that some of the beliefs that we upheld in our modern age may have been overlooked in earlier eras, an example of this would be the concept of female representation. The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and enhance cultivated thinking. The gateway to entering ... ...

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... /World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) scholarship to pursue a Masters in Health Policy, Planning and financing at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). I am a 33 year old female Medical Doctor from Uganda, I hold a bachelors degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBchB) of Makerere University, Uganda and other certificates in management and research. For the past 6 years I have been involved ... ...

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... or self-regulation measured by the amount of time participants continuously squeezed a handgrip both at the start of the study (the condition) and after stigma-manipulation. Participants included sixty-one female NYU undergraduates who were assigned to one of four conditions across variables. The study was double blind and used deception and a cover story, to decrease confounds. Participants were told that ... ...

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... condemnation of Gertrude's sexual gluttony in line with Elizabethan expectation of women. "Hang on him increase of appetitefed," conforming to their virtuous or unchaste dichotomy constrained expressions of female independence in order to maintain control of the perceived flaws in women. The intense personal relationship of Gertrude and Hamlet is constructed in a form in which Hamlet's fixation is provided ... ...

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... . It might be maintained that certain objective events, regardless of culture, are conceptually understood in a certain way and call for a similar type of explanation. Subjects included 10 male and 10 female middle-class American adults, drawn from a university population. They had a men age of 24.5 years and a mean education of 17.8 years. Deviant behaviors were chosen for presentation to subjects because ... ...

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... be traced back to the Indus Valley civilization, it is not difficult to imagine why he majority of Hindu gods are readily depicted in both art and literature with their female consorts. The film gives mention of Kali, the fierce goddess of destruction, who is an incarnation of the goddess Shatki; she is often portrayed as having black skin, eight arms ... ...

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... Women's Christian Association (YWCA) that contributed a great deal to the Civil Rights Movement was run entirely by women and committed to developing women and girls into leaders. Many prominent Southern female civil rights leaders such as Ella Baker, Casey Hayden, and Mary King all had been involved with this organization at sometime or another. Then of course there is the involvement ... ...

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... . To express their union through the bond of marriage is a privilege they deserve to have because being homosexual is not synonymous with being incompetent, callous, and unequal; being gay, straight, female, or male is synonymous with being human. ...

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... biased and gender stereotyped behaviors and attitudes that developing young people are exposed to on television will have an impact on their perception gender roles in our society. In male-female interaction, men are not only usually more dominant, but also rational, ambitious, smart, competitive, powerful, stable, violent, and tolerant, while women are sensitive, romantic, attractive, happy, warm, sociable, peaceful, fair ... ...

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... ), extensive research has been carried out in order to discover if this link extends to males and females. Dabbs, Carr, Frady and Riad (1995) studied this issue concerning male and female inmates. Among the males, it was found that those crimes involving violence showed higher testosterone levels than non violent crimes, and it was more probable that prisoners with higher testosterone ... ...

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... independent states of the former Soviet Union. This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female body". And this might result in the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. In liberal discourse, a corresponding dualism between women and men justifies the attribution of different ... ...

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... of constructive vs. destructive parenting practices. Intercorrelated variables were analyzed using multiple regression. Results Using constructive and destructive parenting behaviors as predictive outcomes, the study showed that both male and female parents were significantly affected by some of the same variables, as well as having one variable that was not correlated, i.e. depression, as a indicator of destructive parenting. The study also revealed ... ...

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