... sport played by strong and well built men. If girls were to be allowed to compete with men, the whole game would be changed and not for the better. There are many reasons why girls should not play at a professional level with men. Including that of tradition, fatal injuries, and its not just football that can not be played professionally with a mixed team but ... game would be lowered. There are enough female competitors around so that females can competitively play football against each other. Furthermore, there are also strong safety reasons against the idea of girls being on a mixed ...

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... feminism existed. Women were expected to be glorified domestic servants, serving at their husband's will. However, the main character in "Medea" by Euripides is a representation of feminist feelings and thoughts that are contrary to those that women were expected to have. Medea is shown at the beginning of the play as a disgruntled and depressed alien woman. She feels that women as a whole receive appalling injustices due ... to the necessity of marriage, followed by near enslavement by their husbands. Medea also reveals in her monologue that, "But when a man is vexed with what he ... ...

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... life in celibacy. She has had five husbands, & since Jesus only visited one wedding, people criticized her & said that she should have only married once. Instead of feeling shameful about her intense sex drive, the Wife simply argued that God told them "to increase and multiply" (Prologue ln. 28). She sees sex as a fun & healthy activity to participate in. She ... what noble deeds he can." (Tale ln. 257-259). Having descendants of nobility & claiming that you are such because of that does not make you noble. Doing the right thing all the time, whether public or private makes a true nobl...

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... someone state that something is specifically for only one of the genders? Well, this is part of the eternal battle of the sexes! Since the beginning of times women and men have been seen as completely different humans that are born to do specific things. This opposition is even found in literary works and in TV shows and movies. One example of a literary work that shows this battle is "Rip Van ... Winkle" by Washington Irving. In this story, the wife is left with all the house ... work, while the husband is very lazy and the wife is always nagging at him. Although the battle of the sex...

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Reflection of Diversity in Terms of Class, Race or Gender and Power Miranda experienced a high-school chemistry teacher treating her different than other students in her class. Her grades were good and she participated in class just as much as other students but the teacher was very short and rude to her. Miranda tried to be nice to Ms. Matthews and could not understand why ... she was not treated equally. After dealing with this treatment most of her senior year, our family tried to make sense of the whole situation. The only difference between Miranda and other female students was that she ...

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... of destination, while back at home his wife is taking the time to meet her lover. Another example can be the separation of men and women in social gathering. A woman might tell her husband that she is going out with her friends while she is actually going out to meet other men. These examples give meaning to the proverb, when the cats away, the mice will play. With the creation of ... man came the creation of lust and infidelity that has been with man ... since the beginning of time and will follow till the ends of time. Humans are hedonistic creatures, meaning they seek pleasure. Many...

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... their sons to change diapers." To summarize Pollitt's essay, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls," she talks about the cause and effect of why boys take the role of being strong and macho, and the girls play the role of beauty and gentleness. Pollitt claims that males and females" personalities and behaviors are derived from social conditioning, and that there is no need to do studies on brain chemistry ... to do with whether what boys play with and girls play with. "NOW" has already accomplished what they wanted and that is more rights and respect. The role of male and female are society's...

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... , Refashioning the Shrew, 161). "Yet as a literary character the shrew was not created only to be destroyed, she was a source of great energy and fun in early English drama- (161). Katherine was indeed a great source of energy in the play and she was also the play's most complex character. Katherine is supposed to be the shrewish sister of Bianca and it is said that the man who ... is to marry her must be "A devil- (I.i.119). Then by the end Petruchio has somehow transformed her from a shrew into the perfect an obedient wife. The controversy lies in the transformation of her actions and ...

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... the first feminists began, and there are still many prejudices and holds that are imposed upon women which keep equality from setting in. Throughout history male writers have played a large part in prolonging progress towards men and women being considered equal. In male literature, numerous ways to keep unequal roles were to stereotype women and make it apparent that men and women play ... women are more equal than men will cause women many unnecessary hardships when women are already equalizing the literary playing field. Rich wants women to do everything a man can do, which is unders...

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... the beginning of time that women were the weaker of the two sexes. Women all over the world have been fighting for equal rights for centuries but the historic stereotype is still stuck. In the US women are allowed to have the same jobs as men, and are, most of time, respected in the same aspect. But, there still is the ... occasional occurrence where women will be laughed at for wanting to do something that may be considered more of a man's job. There are still the ... comments like "Oh, she can't do that, she's not strong enough, she's a woman, that's a man's job." Even in America with...

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... to her like she is dirt. The way that men treated women in the days of ancient Greeks is appalling. Creon is a perfect example of how men treated women so poorly. He is a very sexist man that defines the many characteristics of a typical man in the days of the ancient Greeks. Several examples in the play show that Antigone is a woman that is very capable of making moral decisions on her own, although ... has upset the Gods. He tries to save Antigone, but it's too late. He tries to rescue his son from the cave, but yet again it's too late, and then he finally sees where he made his mista...

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... to convey to the reader the domineering nature of Adoniram and the submissiveness of his wife, Sarah. However, a situational irony is created when the true spirit and determination of Sarah is revealed. By the end of the story, Adoniram realizes he is no longer in charge of his wife and his family as he once thought he was. Many examples of female submissiveness and male dominance are depicted throughout the story. The author describes Sarah ... that Nanny "wasn't never strong" and "there wasn't never any backbone to her". (248) These statements help the reader develop a sense of humili...

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... women who lived in Louisiana, and she got her inspiration from her own life and the other women around her. She is known for two of her most popular works The Awakening and "Story of an Hour-. Women writers were ignored because of the male dominated culture. The Awakening caused a lot of controversy because the story is about a woman exploring her extreme, erotic, and ... The Story of an Hour."" Both The Awakening and "The Story of an Hour- are considered to be examples of feminist theory because of the "ideology that privileges masculine ways of thinking and marginalizes women politicall...

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... supposed to perform certain tasks places many restrictions on the word gender. Gender role stereotypes refer to the oversimplified expectations of what it means to be a woman or a man. It would be stereotypical to believe that a woman's place is in the kitchen, and at the same time to assume that a man's job is to financially support the family. Most women today are strong willed and perfectly ... able to take care of themselves. Just the same, today's man is not only concerned about his muscles, but also if his belt matches ... his shoes. When looking at a job application the word gen...

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... their pre-date rituals, their post-date rituals, as well as their idea of the perfect date. About four hours before the date is supposed to begin, many women get their nails done. Some even go to the mall to get a new outfit. Men, on the other hand, might play a pick up game of basketball or baseball. If they are not doing this, then they are most ... likely watching TV or playing video games. Women worry that they are not going to impress their date. Just the other day, my friend, who was going ... on a date, made me walk through the mall with her for two ... ...

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... in this article. Her points are well documented with some good examples, so that the reader can understand just what she is talking about. Most of the examples I can relate to my own life. Children do play with someone of their own gender, very rarely do children voluntarily play with someone of the opposite gender. They almost resent that the teacher or person in charge would put a male and a female together ... are at home, the only thing that I can figure out why men are so talkative in public is maybe talking to someone gives them a little chip on their shoulder. Women are not very ...

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... won't improve and these role models will not emerge. There are clear examples of women's sport that do generate good media coverage and role models. Athletics and tennis are the clear examples. The lighting of the Olympic flame by Australian athlete Cathy Freeman in Sydney in 2000 was a symbol of how women can be considered in sport alongside, or in this case superior to men. As a sportsman ... life's where they are learning more and more about societies norms, and the vast majority of them do not want to stand out from the rest. It is not normal for women too play football; they are s...

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... and men who wish the world to be equal without boundaries. These boundaries or blockades are better known as discrimination and biases against gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status and economic status. Literary feminism is a fuel, is a written medium to communicate the philosophy of feminism. Everyone views the world with his or her own sense of gender and equality. Feminists view the world as being ... unequal. They wish to see the gender gap and the idea that men are superior to women decreased or even abolished. Nawal ... led me up a blind ally in my thinking...and I began ...

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The Taming of the Shrew is a literary exploration of marital issues presented explicitly and implicitly by Shakespeare's characters. The characters demonstrate and allow insight into the preferred behaviour of men and women in marriage, their appropriate roles and duties, and each person's expectations in a partnership. These messages of accepted and traditional understandings are explicitly expressed and easily understood through the characters" statements and speeches. The ... 149-150, a woman "liest warm at home, secure and safe" Act 5, scene 2, 152. To account for his work, she offers her...

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... three of the witches female illustrates the patriarchal nature of the culture in which the play was written. As women, the witches represent Shakespeare" s attempt to display the "other," the darker side of humanity. Both Lady MacBeth and the witches are portrayed as evil women who influence MacBeth to do evil; the thoughts they suggest to him infect his mind and he becomes filled with malice. MacBeth's defeat at the end of the play represents the defeat of the other; the ... clearly sets up a patriarchal structure in MacBeth. The women in the play are portrayed as evil influences and m...

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... of the conformity pie deals with the role of the woman, and how she should look and act. Three literary works from the death unit that illustrate the conflict that many women encounter are "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy, "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston and "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" by Joy Harjo. The reader notes that a major theme of the three works is the long-term effect of outside pressure on the ... subjects from birth. In these works, each character represents a woman trying to come to terms with ... ...

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... Accost," and genuine goodwill during Sir Toby's relentless gulling are disregarded in terms of gaining respect. Shakespeare presents Sir Andrew as an extreme example of non-masculine behaviour to gain a comic effect, such as when he demonstrates his dancing skills. However, the audience feels a lot of empathy for him at the end of the play when he is publicly humiliated by Sir Toby's rejection, and he loses ... behaviour" in the captain, and persuades him to help her become a eunuch. Although Feste is male, his aloofness and detached view of the world make him hard to define into either ...

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... , substance, or importance. In the short play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell this is what the men accuse the women of "constantly worrying over". This play is set in the early 1900's and is about the murder of a man and trying to find clues as to why he was murdered. They have his wife in custody but don't know of a motive. I find in this story that the women are more intoned with ... what goes on around them. This was first in evidence when the ... men noticed a mess in the ... ...

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... this, we can re-examine the works of the few women writers who did achieve recognition on par with, or at least in proximity to, their male counterparts. Rich is at her best when "decoding" the works of her spiritual and literary predecessors, reading between the boundaries of the admittedly male-imposed lines. This act of "re-vision - the act of looking back...from a new critical direction," as ... Rich puts it, at male and female writers "is an act of survival (p.167)." It is vital to the self-knowledge required to form an accurate and lasting ... tenuous at best. Rich is, at times, n...

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... her to fetch his slippers for him, in a moment of rebellion, she throws them away to his face. This shows that she belongs to nobody. In asserting her independence from Higgins and the usual conventions regarding marriage, Eliza nonetheless ends up confirming established gender stereotypes. In A Doll's House, the play focuses on the ways that women are perceived in their various roles, especially ... in marriage and motherhood. Torvald believes that it is the sacred duty of Nora to be a good wife and to be ... responsible for the morality of their children. She is regarded as a childlik...

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