But what is male and what is female? ... Therefore due to technoscience and social construction, is it possible to be a female by sex and a male by gender and vice versa? ... They hold power in and of themselves to shape human life and destiny" (Leonard, 23) through the birth intersexed infants. ... The majority of intersexed infants are assigned the sex of a female due to social construction of gender identity issues as many intersexed infants who may be born dominantly biologically male, but with a micropenis, are said to be assigned the sex of a female as socially they will not fit in co...

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The mother-infant relationship in a chimpanzee society is very important. ... Whereas those infants who have the benefit of more nurturing, warm, more supportive mothers tend to grow up and be assertive, to reach a higher place in the hierarchy, and, if they are females, they tend to be better mothers themselves. ... Females have their own, somewhat confused, hierarchy. All adult males dominate all females. ... Spacing between births, provided the previous infant lives, is about five years. ...

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Forced abortions, sterilization and the killing of innocent infants is cruel and unnecessary. ... There has been a large increase on the number of deaths in the female infants that have been caused by their own parents. ... Which means that the female infants are often killed, aborted, or left to die. According to a 1992 survey, the sex ratio of newborns was 118 males for every 100 females. ... Regardless of being a female or male all children should be treated equally and should not be favored by what sex they are. ...

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Female slavery was also distinguished and structured by childbearing and childbirth. ... Most slave women this age were either pregnant, nursing an infant, or had at least one small child to care for "male runaways could be more assured that their children would be cared for, but slave women had no such assurance. ... Slaveholder sexism also made female slavery different from male slavery. ... Besides making women's days especially long, slaveholder practices restricted female slave movement. ... The most common form of female self-defense was feigning illness. ...

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The black lemur is unique among lemurs in that, males and females are different colors. ... After three weeks, the infant will begin to ride on its mother's back and soon afterwards it will execute its first steps. ... Females are dominate to the males for two things: sleeping sites and ripe fruit. ... Infants call with low-pitched, staccato grunts. ... Well, the female black lemur did wake up a couple times. ...

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In Kuwait there is a literacy rate of eighty percent of males and seventy three percent of females, the evidence of this in the common household is the fact that books, a computer and a satellite were seen. ... Due to the fact that there is a great difference between the female literacy rate and the male literacy rate one assumption would be that males attend school longer than females and that they are more responsible for gaining employment in their later life. ... In both Kuwait and Albania they have fairly high life expectancy rates and low infant mortality rates. For Kuwait life expec...

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It has been proven that mothers can usually tell by smell, the clothing worn by their young infants, from other children's clothing. Infants can tell the smell of their mother, from other women within several days after birth. ... Both male and female insects release sex pheromones. ... These male moths can detect a female from miles away. ... A female moth was observed attracting more than one hundred male moths in a period of six hours. ...

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For example, an infants strongest sense is satisfaction is most often achieve by eating. If a hunger infant is not immediately fed it will most likely cry and become frustrated. ... Since this visual image of food will not sustain the infants life the ego must develop and step in. ... The oral stage occurs during the first year of an infants life. ... His ideas of sexual norms are based on the idea that there are 2 genders, male and female. ...

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As infants grow older, their parents" notions about gender stereotypes continue to influence how parents treat their children. ... Parents treating their infants differently are displaying socialization. ... However, for boys teachers never required them to approach the teacher for assistance (Males/Females Roles 38). ... It is important because females were once looked at to have children and to get married in order to fulfill herself as a female. ... These are extreme variations in male and female behaving by species and often within species depending on their environment. ...

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Before Jonas, there was a female Giver, which is the highest position in society. ... Every time a citizen dies in their world, a new infant is named for them; there are no new, unique names. ... Women conceive in a place of breeding, where male and female units mate under highly regulated conditions. ... Jonas' experience with "the stirrings,"" or feelings of sexual desire, lead him to feel things strictly forbidden between the male and the female sex. ... Jonas saw the tape of his father injecting poison into the brain of the infant, and realizes that "Release- is a euphemism fo...

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Females are more passive and defensive about sex because that is what society intended for them. ... However, I believe the roles of women and nurturing their children is a product of nature; the fetus receives nutrients while inside the mother's womb, and an infant receives milk from the mother as he/she develops into a child (lactation is a biological trait that only females have). ... Caroline Bynum further reveals religious discrimination towards females in "The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Later Middle Ages". ... Bynum uses the word somatize when describing female reli...

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There are many characteristics that both males and females value in a potential mate. ... Men put greater emphasis on attractiveness as female beauty relates to a woman's reproductive ability. ... Since women have to make a greater obligatory investment in offspring though gestation and infant care, they have more of a choice about whom they are going to mate. ... Sexual dimorphism is the disparity between the size of the male and female. ... "If we define the sexualization of women as objectification per se, and thereby as degrading and disempowering, we lose touch with an image on ...

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This Act was implemented to connect the effects of discrimination on female and minority workers. ... In Jeanne Halladay Gouglin's published book, The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs, she depicts the four major and distinct economic motivations for female entrepreneurs. ... The principle reason and belief she has for making her ultimate decision of withdrawing from workforce participation was her strong belief in the "Infant Attachment Theory."" ... William's book, Working Women, she writes that "mother-infant bonding is a myth."" ...

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Women Artist of the Impressionist Period In the late nineteenth-century, four artists of the Impressionist movement shared the challenge of being female and seeking acceptance as professional artists. ... These four female Impressionists are Mary Stevenson Cassat (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-1916), Eva Gonzales (1849-1883), and Marie Bracquemond (1840-1916). ... Here Morisot is, like Cassatt, depicting a moment of intimacy between a mother and infant. The mother sits alongside her childs bassinette, gazing at her sleeping infant. ... The muslim surrounding the infants bed, gives th...

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The clans are female dominated and rank is inherited along maternal lines. ... Female spotted hyenas urinate, mate, and give birth through a hole in this pseudo-penis. ... Males have consistently higher testosterone levels than females, though females have higher levels of androstenedione. ... Because these androgens have been concluded to come from the fetal ovaries, Glickman et al. hypothesized that such hormonal levels could account for the aggressive behavior necessary for females, including infants who have just entered into the communal den [6]. Female aggression and dominance allows suc...

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To make a headless clone would require removing the higher brain of the fetus of infant and since both of these beings fall under the same legal laws as a non-cloned fetus or infant it would again be murder. ... To do this scientists remove an egg cell from a female, and remove the chromosomes, nucleus, etc, leaving no way for the mother to interfere with the genetic part of the reproduction. ... After about 6 weeks, the egg cell, now artificially fertilized, is placed back into the uterus of another female of the same species. ...

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We have now considered in some detail the way in which infants develop strong attachment bonds towards the end of the first year of life. Bowlby believes that it is essential for infants and young children to experience a warm, intimate and continuous relationship with their mother or permanent mother substitute. ... Maternal Deprivation The term maternal deprivation has been used to describe a whole range of situations in which the infant is deprived of his relationship with his mother. ... Bowlby described the stages through which infants pass when placed in institutions where they are denie...

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She was partly concerned with observations of females from birth to post-pubescent stages of life. ... This freedom is what affects the lives of all the growing males and females, and begins immediately with birth. ... For one of these children to take the responsibility for an infant would be out of the question. ... The girls of this age are also learning to take their role in society as a female. ... Information is freely passed down from man to man, while the females seem to be waiting to be taught by a male. ...

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I have found that in America, feminists have primarily advocated for female benefits. ... The female also dictates the social and economic future of the impregnating male. ... Feminist insist that these women endure physical and emotional pain in the termination or birth of an infant. ... In some cases, female violence is glorified. ... Even in the aspect of female rights, the approach of this movement has been aggressive and counterproductive. ...

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Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman it will become evident that the females in these two novels are themselves heroes. ... The three female roles, the passive female, unsympathetic woman and new woman, all incorporate some of these heroic qualities into the creation of the characters. ... Another stereotypical, female role found in literature is that of the "unsympathetic woman". ... "Women were victims of discrimination from the very moment of their birth...an infant girl could...

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It was mostly true in Pagan countries in which popular culture assimilated the natural forces with the female body. ... The high-level of infant mortality is a core element. ... The Male-Female conflicting relation was an integral part of the process of accusation and persecutions. ... The male, frightened by the rise of female power, thought something has to be done to contain women's role in society. ... It was particularly female sexuality that was perceived to make women different from men. ...

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Non-organic Failure to Thrive (NFTT) is a condition found in infants in which their height and weight are below the fifth percentile, when once they were within a normal range (Wallace, 1996). The diagnosis of NFTT indicates that there is no medical, or organic, reason for the infant's condition, and it is therefore attributable to an inability of the parents to physically care for the child. ... "Two out of every three female children and one out of every three male children will experience an unwanted sexual act before they reach adulthood." ... (McMaster University, 2000) Altogether "5...

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Other research from the American Cancer Society estimate that a total of sixty-one percent of male nonsmokers and seventy-six of female nonsmokers were exposed to Environmental Tobacco smoke. ... During a recent poll, nonsmoking adults (males, females) were asked a series of questions. ... Other studies show that a child under the age of three could die from sudden infant death syndrome if exposed to environmental tobacco smoke for long periods of time. Sudden infant death syndrome also called crib death is a frightening condition in which apparently healthy, normal infants suddenly stop bre...

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In the already mentioned early cultures an obese woman was the common female ideal. ... Even human infants have a preference for looking at symmetrical patterns rather than non symmetrical ones. ... Human males whose bodies are more symmetrical are more attractive to females than non-symmetrical males. ... While there are male anorexics, and the incidence of male anorexics may be increasing, most anorexics are female. ... It is thought that as many males as females have the condition in childhood. ...

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But as Science has already proven, infants are not blank slates on whom we scrawl instructions for sexually appropriate behavior. ... The hormones determine the distinct male or female organization of the brain as it develops in the womb. A fetus will only come out male if the male hormones are present and a fetus can only come out as a female if the male hormones are absent. ... The rat thought that he was female and he certainly acted like one. A female rat was injected with male hormones acted aggressively, an innate male behavior, and even tried to mount other females. ...

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