... dominance is taken for granted. Willmore envisages marriage as a juggling knot, denoting a cheating, trick-playing (marriage) knot (The Rover 5.1.198: Spencer, Explanatory notes 347) The aim of this paper therefore is to show how the play manifests the restoration comedy and how at the same time Behn subverts those notions. When ... same time many of them demonstrate recognizable types from the Italian travelling comedy troupes of Commedia dell- Arte. For example Helena is the saucy, uppity girl who provides the britches role in the play. Her disguise as a boy allows the male voyeurs in t...

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... perpetrated by the state, including acts of violence and sexual abuse during armed conflict, forced sterilization and abortion, and female infanticide. By declaring protection from violence for women and girl children as a universal human right, the conference articulated a dramatic expansion of human rights. The Platform declares: "Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment ... 1989). Indigenous peoples in particular have sought rights which are collective and whose beneficiaries are historically formed communities rather than individuals or states (Anaya...

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... having a male voyeur. However the erotic atmosphere alters immediately when Gerty reveals her limp as she walks away. Joyce encourages us to question the sexuality of disabled people. Leopold Bloom notes that 'a defect is ten times worse in a woman...glad I didn't know it when she was on show'.(332.Joyce.1932) Joyce reveals Bloom's disdain yet fascination when he figures ... promoted sexual desire in his female characters in Ulysses. This is mostly portrayed in episode thirteen 'Nausicaa' when Gerty MacDowell expresses her strong sexual desire in the text. Richard Brown explai...

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... immediately coerces Jack into an interview of his character and personal life, "And now I have a few questions to put to you, Mr. Worthing", which would usually be the task the girl's Father would typically undertake, not her Mother. This again gives her the upper hand as she is able to be assertive to the lead male character in the play, which ... , you know how anxious your guardian is that you should improve yourself in every way.", as she is teaching her German. This shows that despite the fact that Cecily is a girl, Jack still expects her to be knowledgeable and have good education,...

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... a male sexuality, Robert Walser (1993) has proposed a more dynamic and historical approach by claiming that rock has been actively 'made as male.' Focusing on a specific subgenre, heavy metal, he notes that heavy rock is not enjoyed entirely by male audience and neither does it communicate one type of masculinity. Walser continues to argue that heavy metal musicians do not simply ... she states that "I know it's a sexist thing to say, but women aren't as good at making music as men - like they're not as good as men at football. A girl in a dress with a guitar looks weird. It's ok o...

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... were not cooks, which is the stereotypical woman's job of more recent times. Instead, they prepared and served the drinks when there were guests (Brown 24). Although there were times when women were needed in a laborious job, men were the ox-herders, laborers, swine-herders, and so forth, ... house, overseeing the slaves and storerooms, making clothes, baking but not cooking the meals, making and serving drinks, and entertaining when there were guests (Brown 25). Women's work roles were limited and distinct from men's roles, but they were respected and valued by society. Other advantages...

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... how 134 countries have succeeded in closing gaps between men and women, 17 out of the 20 countries at the bottom of the gender gap scale were Islamic nations. UNICEF notes out of 24 nations with less than 60% primary enrollment rates, 17 were Islamic nations. 70% of Muslim women are illiterate in several Islamic nations. The statistics are more favorable ... understanding for the equality of women that was far from common practice during the time and was often tested by others. He did things such as speaking to the Samaritan girl at the well and converting her as well as saving Mary Mag...

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... , what's gleaned is how familiar this sounds (or appears) and how it continues to be driven home without obstacle through today's perfunctory media-driven landscape. Little about a woman's (or young girl's) inner beauty or self-worth is ever made apparent in how advertisements elect to depict them; no, what's truly important is how attractive or sexy such a woman comes across, both ... the viewer. The catch is that a dark, digitally-placed line exists down the center of her nose; on one side is the unappealing "before" eye-color (dark and brown and unsexy), especially in comparison to th...

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... when they feel the need for revenge, or to "get even," with the thing or person evoking their anger in the first place. Other scholars have expanded Aristotle's notes on anger-its use as a rhetorical tool, what causes people to get angry, and what kind of rhetoric best evokes anger. Christopher Carey ... notes that some of the most persuasive "angry rhetoric," evokes anger in a way that makes the audience feel personally offended, even though it may not have actually been a personal ... is not, indicates that rage will be aroused in females when hearing the stereotypes about domestici...

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... , 23). Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. As Hazel Jones notes, there were many women who acted similarly, privileging a steady income and home over the possibility of happiness.6 If happiness was found in marriage it was usually just an added bonus ... seeks to stress Jane's unsuitability as "not rich enough, or grand enough" (116). Jane's beauty benefits her desirability, however, and works to contest her social status. As Jones notes, beauty could greatly a...

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... meant she could not pursue her own dreams. This idea of ambition is reiterated throughout A Gathering Light through both Grace Brown and Mattie Gokey. "She was carrying a baby, Chester Gillette's Baby" Mattie realises after reading the incriminating letters. Grace Brown's baby can be seen as a metaphor for the death of Grace's dreams. As the baby is illegitimate, this causes Grace ... ...

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... it provides reasoning as to why females respond to certain social situations. Rebellion is an act against respective norms as seen in the case of Jayanthi. Jayanthi, "the bad girl," spent years of her life "rebelling against her family." Growing up in a traditional yet moderately religious Hindu family played a significant role in Jayanthi's enjoyment of being " ... more confident in herself. In a working-class family, unplanned pregnancies were relatively common; being raised by Catholic grandparents, her goal was to strive and succeed out of poverty. A very determined girl, Alicia...

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... to play with dolls and play house where they take on maternal roles. If a young girl shows interest in sports she is deemed with the term a "tomboy". The term itself is insulting to females. If a girl likes sports she is automatically associated with a boy because that is a typical male interest. ... The word tomboy originated with a negative connotation meaning a boisterous young boy. So why is now acceptable to label a young girl because she is not interested in what society deems she should be? In addition to the media and community female athletes often sexualize themselves. Often fe...

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... to Education 2010). Girls worldwide suffer from illiteracy simply because they are forced to work rather than fulfill their dreams of becoming educated. Senna, a girl from Peru is among millions unable to become educated due to her family's poverty. She comes from a small mining town, and after her father ... girls school is inaccessible; many fail to realize the education of these females can lead to the extinction of harmful social injustices. Yasmin, a young girl from Egypt was raped at the age of 12, a year after she was forcibly engaged (Robbins 2013). In her society women are viewe...

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... are not "proper women ". Female circumcision is an extremely dangerous procedure that is almost always performed under unsanitary conditions by an unskilled and unequipped elder village woman. If the girl survives, she is plagued by painful long-term medical complications that could eventually lead her back to death's door. Normal health problems that the girls endure are hemorrhage, infection, ... of a society's culture. Men of these cultures have been able to control women for hundreds of years by making these procedures seem like normal traditions. In a not unusual situation "a Yacou...

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... suffer from tremendous human rights violations; 60-80% of all marriages that take place in Afghanistan are forced or they're child marriages. A girl has to start a family before she's sixteen. The gender inequality index ranks countries by considering various factors; out of the 138 countries that ... group and protested on the streets, as they were desperate to seek justice. Most families in Saudi Arabia don't believe in educating their girl child. Girls spend their adolescence learning how to cook and clean instead of getting educated, they are eventually forced into marriage at a ve...

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... stereotypes". (2012 pg.37) This can be seen in the following advertisement (see appendix B) In this advertisement we see a young girl holding up a creation of Lego accompanied by the text, 'what it is, is beautiful'. The young girl in the advert is dressed in unisex attire and despite the fact that little effort is made to feminise her in this ... eighties contrasts the way females are depicted as less than males or the weaker of the species. Reading this adverts meanings can have multiple suggestions. The girl in this advert is not dressed stereotypically as a girl but she still i...

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... Yet men develop false expectations as a result that women try their best to reach but physically cannot nor never will. In our society we see a girl as "beautiful" as thin and pale with little to no blemishes. "The media focuses so much on telling girls that being "skinny ... submissive to men. Giving men a false sense of reality, having the belief in their head that they are automatically entitled to sex from a flirtatious girl, or that women enjoy being forced into unwanted sexual actions. This is portraying women in the category as "objects" rather than "human ... , diminished feeling...

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... -cartoon programs, advertising companies manipulating a mother's greed. Even in certain instances, the companies drive mothers to be competitive over their daughters" appearance and to look better than the next little girl. In pursuit of this, mothers buy designer clothing, shoes, and accessories for these little girls. Memories of wanting these as children without receiving them or purchasing the entire kitchen set ... present in any of their commercials. In many ways, this is stereotyping girls to become a girlfriend, mother, homemaker, a source of comfort, and a beautiful body. Studie...

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... and anger. What's worth noting here in regards to the gender divide is the likelihood of the mother's rejection to administer support for the baby's detachment is gender biased. A baby girl, as it is the same sex as the mother, is more likely to be met with this rejection precisely because of the mother's attachment to her via her gender. Furthermore ... , a baby boy is more likely to be given support because of the typical gender association of boys and independence. A girl, by her status in society today, is thought to need nuturing and care and love more-so than a boy. When the mother...

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... , girls were prominently seen to be girly, weaker, or the "fairer" sex; they were supposed to illuminate daintiness. This seen prominently in the 1960s defined what made a girl a "girl" in a sense, and those not to be defined by that, which meant the girls who played sports left them to be outsiders. An Olympic swimmer, Donna de Varona, the ... of inequality has been around for quite some time, the first time it was seen in sports was in the mid-1920s, when "a group of women physical educators destroyed girl's chances to participate in competitive sports, the only real chance to compete ...

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... , to develop a sense of status, to be a powerful, desireable, successful black male image of hip-hop...as part of [their] performance," explains Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. In many cases, the only space the industry makes for women is homogenous to an exploited and objectified conception of who these women are in order to even be ... ...

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... , They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. (Bradstreet 549) This line in particular highlights her radical views; she looks honestly at her own abilities and then notes that the culture she lives in will disregard her success by calling her a thief, which is slander, or saying she just got lucky. She calls these proponents of such beliefs ... ...

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... orders (Anderson, 1985). In contrast, the benefits of success are also extensive. For example, effective police responses has been found to not only improve the self-esteem of battered women (Brown, 1984), but it also increases the likelihood that they will leave abusive relationships (Schulz, 1995). Due to the critical nature of police response to crimes of violence against women, it ... ...

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... women or Aboriginal men (Morris, 2014). In Canada, "the average annual income of Aboriginal women is $13,300" (Morris, 2014, para.13). In addition to low income, Morris notes that they also have difficulty getting housing and services, both on and off the reserve. Similarly, (Morris,2014) finds that women of color have lower income than Caucasian women, as ... ...

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