... women in the male-dominated decision-making process and crucial security issues in Central Asia. The gender aspect in conflict prevention and concerning the religious peace agenda has been largely neglected. Under-representation of women in the power structure is often explained by the mentality of the Central Asian people as Muslims and the passivity of women. While standing up for an increase in female representation in the power system, many say that a woman in power is not the same ... NGOs and the media to participate in political and public life. In Tajikistan women constitute 35 ...

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... , there are many cultural practices that we can easily observe throughout other people. People who adapted themselves to believe in follow these cultural practices think that the best thing to do is to get them involved in these kinds of cultural practices. One of the things that we can say that would be weird from people from other cultures to observe can be people's worryness about ... their weight. For example, nowadays, people care a lot about their weight, may be they are in a good condition but when they ... get to see themselves in a mirror they see more than ... ...

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... as 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 fi...

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... as full-time field workers, mothers, housekeepers, and sexual victims from white males since slavery was started in 16th century. Black women had never enjoyed some of the supposed benefits the womanhood and its separate spheres for men and women, an ideology developed as a result of 19th century industrialization in the U.S. Slave owners thought that black women were profitable labor unit like black men, and sometimes as ... sexual exploitation for owners. Some of historians had tried to prove brutal slavery in human history directly or indirectly, especially black women described as g...

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... communication differences among different groups of people may lead to conflict. One of the more interesting issues in communication, which has received considerable attention, is the issue of gender differences in communication. It is common knowledge that the two genders, male and female, engage in communication in slightly different ways. Yet what exactly are these differences, and how do they arise? Equally important is the question of what types of conflict can these differences lead ... into the impact that situational factors play in determining differences in the manner in which...

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INTRODUCTION Many fathers and daughters know very little about one another side from the stereotypic roles they play in the family. Not surprisingly then most movies and television programs also push the father-daughter relationship off to the side or ignore it altogether. If the father is included in any discussion, he is often portrayed as indifferent, self-centered, distant, insensitive, uncommunicative, and stressed - especially when it comes to ... devised a three-stage father/daughter model, which includes the oasis, the conflict, and the separation stage. In the oasis stage, the daught...

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... to feel, communicate, and respond the way women do" (Gray 10). Women have been socialized since birth not to brag or promote themselves, not to be pushy or bossy. Men, on the other hand, have been pressured to take center stage, challenging others and boasting about what they"re good at. Men also play devil's advocate, whereas women ... tend to compromise and ask for others" input. The aim of a woman's conversation is to emphasize fitting in, being equal with others, sharing and giving support to those with whom she is talking to. Being this way, women have the tendency to expect the sam...

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... 's struggle between duty to family and personal growth. The young women in this novel are shown dealing with the conflict of choosing what is more important in their lives "self-cultivation, or domestic duties. Social constraints on women during the nineteenth-century play an important role in this novel. Alcott shows through the four sisters four different ways of dealing with the social expectations put upon them. Meg and Beth both ... conform to society's expectations of the roles women should play, while Amy and Jo ... ...

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... women voices" is one possible explanation for what seems to be opposed underlying messages in "Prologue" (Scheitzer 293). Judith Murray was more precisely vocal in her feminist ideals in "On the Equality of the Sexes" and rather than exploring the general themes of female ability, she pinpoints very specific examples of female advancement and argues that such mental liberation makes a better woman, one who possessing ... and helplessness, Murray is able to show through her work the equality women have to men. Murray limits the portrayal of powerful women in the play by using the framewo...

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... , communication competence, and misunderstandings between gendered speech communities. Examples of interpersonal communication can be associated to the research through real life situations. My own experiences with out-of-class communication are an illustration of this. Education is dependent on communication between professors and students in the classroom but it is also contingent on out-of-class communication. A study of how the roles of student gender and professor gender relate to out ... or her professor (as being creditable or having empathy) is contingent on how the student will ...

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... -year-old girls lives today. A Quinceañera is a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday and many Hispanic girls all over the world celebrate this occasion. In the Hispanic community, the Quinceañera is an important celebration because of its history, which represents immediate change from childhood to womanhood in the eyes of society. Usually following the ceremony for the Quinceañera, a young woman was permitted to more responsibilities and ... privileges such as work and marriage. The word " Quinceañera" comes from ... ...

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... to Cassio, making her passive actions look pathetic and humorous to the audience. Bianca's function in the play is to show the dichotomy between her and Desdemona and portray the binary of the whore when compared to the angel, Desdemona. Emilia is the balance between Desdemona, the angel and Bianca, the whore. She is neither of the two and is submissive to no one in the play. Shakespeare uses Emilia to show that women cannot be classified ... female characters Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca to portray how each fills the role of an angel, a whore and neither of the two. Throughout the pla...

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... Kate Henry, a woman who was born and raised on the prairies, now lives in Toronto. The Saskatchewan culture she grew up with and thought of as being normal, she now sees as being boring and unsophisticated, yet something inside her still loves the laid-back prairie attitude. When she arrives at the induction dinner, she is immediately critical of the "pathetic decorations"(69) that look as if a child ... made them. Kate also overhears the jokes the women are telling that were "corny the first time around, fifty years before."(69) The dinner was a typical Saskatchewan party, it was "un-c...

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... characters align with these gender stereotypes. A close examination of "Cinderella" suggests that Cinderella's goodness lies in her passiveness and beauty. In this paper I argue that Perrault's "Cinderella" reinforces traditional general roles by equating a good woman with one who is passive, physically attractive and dependent. Countless examples throughout the story highlight Cinderella's passiveness as the key to her good-natured identity. Perrault introduces ... fit in the shoe in both versions shows the importance of marriage for a woman's future, and the Brothers Grimm version goe...

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... mother and housewife. As they grow up and aspire to make something of themselves, some women tend to "keep their ambitions to themselves because they don't feel it is appropriate to do otherwise" " (Walker, 1999, p. 23). An economic disparity exists between men and women and this is derived from a conflict between work and family, which is a cost women have to pay and ... important trait women need to arm themselves with is assertiveness. In a world where men are happily received at the top of the corporate ladder, women need to claw their way to the top. Catherine Walker (1999) states ...

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... . Both the setting and plot play crucial roles in understanding the central pillar of female power; each time being the base - the foundation - of each character's success. Such a prospect reveals much information about Gilgamesh, the setting of the poems. This element of female-power completely changes the setting and story from one of the strength and courage of tough men to one of the hidden power that women exert from the background. Working from the shadows, the female characters in "The Epic of Gilgamesh ... the actual groom. Without the source of domestication and civility that ar...

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... about our body? These were the two questions that I asked myself in order to do the research paper and the panel discussion. In my opinion, I would agree that the media does influence and promote women and men to believe that the culture's standards for body image are ideal. Hence, the phrases, "thin is in" and "the perfect body" are two examples of "eye-catching" headlines that I observed in many women magazines. I learned that ... definitely looks like she's had a dramatic weight loss." (People, 10-18-99) These two examples plus the dozens of others I have read through my research, ha...

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... about our body? These were the two questions that I asked myself in order to do the research paper and the panel discussion. In my opinion, I would agree that the media does influence and promote women and men to believe that the culture's standards for body image are ideal. Hence, the phrases, "thin is in" and "the perfect body" are two examples of "eye-catching" headlines that I observed in many women magazines. I learned that ... definitely looks like she's had a dramatic weight loss." (People, 10-18-99) These two examples plus the dozens of others I have read through my research, ha...

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William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. In Much Ado about Nothing, the main character____(look up) ---{describe role}. Similarly, in Macbeth, {discuss role of Lady Macbeth} The women of Othello also displayed characteristics of strong, modern women. .... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling ... in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage ... ...

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... kind like Betsy" (Wagner-Martin 74). When Hilda, another guest editor comments about that she is "so glad that [the Rosenbergs are] going to die," Esther uses her knowledge of Jewish folklore to compare Hilda's voice to a "dybbuk," (the soul of a dead sinner) which Esther experienced in a play (100). Esther appears intellectual, serious and passionate compared to Hilda, "a mindless mannequin for ... stylish hats ... and accessories" (Bundtzen ... (Steiner 21). "As [Plath] became increasingly conscious of herself as a woman, the conflict between the life-style of a poet/intellectual and ...

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... , as they struggle with their changing identities and many developing tensions as a result of the war. In the novel, Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old, uneducated Igbo houseboy, begins working for Odenigbo, a revolutionary and politically engaged Igbo professor, and his girlfriend, Olanna, a beautiful, intelligent, and privileged Igbo woman. Olanna and Odenigbo soon find themselves in conflict with each other and with Olanna's strong-willed twin sister, Kainene, and ... turn to each other for support and advice. However, after Odenigbo cheats on Olanna, she sleeps with Richard, Kainene's boyfrie...

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... through society walls of expectations provided by the culture. In William Shakespeare's, "The Tempest ", the only female presence in the play is Miranda, who is merely used a tool in Prospero's machine and as a flimsy love interest for Ferdinand. The lack of women in the play is already fitting to the time period Shakespeare created this play during. The dominating, patriarchal presence of Prospero is something to be expected and represents Shakespeare himself as the absolute ruler of the story just as ... Prospero is. "The Tempest " provides ... ...

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... Eliot's critique of the opportunities available to women in 19th century. However, these readings tend to be overly autobiographical: they read Maggie as an avatar of Eliot herself. As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family ... were demonic- subversive or defiant in some way of feminine ideals and "fallen" sexually. In literature too this opposition preva...

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... Eliot's critique of the opportunities available to women in 19th century. However, these readings tend to be overly autobiographical: they read Maggie as an avatar of Eliot herself. As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family ... were demonic- subversive or defiant in some way of feminine ideals and "fallen" sexually. In literature too this opposition preva...

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... much exploration into the challenges facing Del as a woman in a patriarchal world. Descriptions of the lives of Canadian girls and women during the 1920's and 1930's fill the book and prompt the conclusion that these years really saw no discontinuity with the past in Canada. (Before women gained the right to vote) Munro involves the conflict between a woman's independence and domesticity, the subtleties of class distinctions, coming of age, and the intricacies of women's sexuality throughout the novel. This ... traditional coming of age story, Dell ... ...

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