... of self-confidence, and a sense of humiliation. There have been numerous studies conducted which identified the medical causes of alopecia as an autoimmune disease. However, there is little to no research evaluating the emotional and/or societal pressures placed upon women living with the disease. Research Question The central research question explored: What is the meaning of alopecia in the lives of ... /or identify themselves with a self-selected group and aim towards enhancing themselves within that group. (Tajfel & Turner, 1986). The SIT model frames the research due to the societal...

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... charge of the management, and in other cases, the army entrusted the management to civilians. Other former Japanese soldiers testified that Japanese comfort women were for officers, Koreans for soldiers, and Taiwanese for civilian employees. However, because the regulation was usually to distinguish time between officers ... put the age limit at 16, the rules of the most of military comfort stations contained no line on the age of comfort women. Former comfort women who reported to the Korean government say they were drafted when 14 to 19 years old. (Horn) This means that, except ... Ge...

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... separate role of families from the state, there were not enough places for developing and strengthening of equality of women from top to bottom (Boshman1998: 67). And at the time of collapsing the Soviet Union the gender stratification was not so much. Little girls saw that around them their mothers were working as medical servants and teachers. Moreover, in television, ... phenomenon of absenteeism", where voters do not vote. Male and female motives for absenteeism, however, are different. In studying this phenomenon's applicability to women, one should keep in mind women's complexes, s...

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... her speeches. Under the guidance of the Quaker community, she made public talks about the abolitionist cause. Her speeches got so popular that men and women defied the social standards of that time, and listened to a woman's public speech. However, she was eventually silenced by male abolitionists who considered her ... from slavery and over the next ten years she risked her life, and led many slaves to freedom by the Underground Railroad. With women actively helping disenfranchised groups who affected by the social changes in the early 19th century, their involvement in the Abolition Mo...

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... pay a high price that includes both physical and psychological harm. Some examples including stunted growth, permanent damage to reproductive organs, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Drugs subdue many women and teens, and the children often enough miss opportunities for moral, social, and spiritual development (King). Human trafficking rips children away from their families at crucial development and nurturing ... for and treated well. However, everywhere in the United States condemns and penalizes prostitutes and customers for what they do as adults. Money is spent on court cases tha...

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... her speeches. Under the guidance of the Quaker community, she made public talks about the abolitionist cause. Her speeches got so popular that men and women defied the social standards of that time, and listened to a woman's public speech. However, she was eventually silenced by male abolitionists who considered her ... from slavery and over the next ten years she risked her life, and led many slaves to freedom by the Underground Railroad. With women actively helping disenfranchised groups who affected by the social changes in the early 19th century, their involvement in the Abolition Mo...

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... it is important to acknowledge what is known about our research question. Feminist theories have focused much of their attention on structured gender inequality on a societal level. This automatically disadvantages women in terms of their economic status, educational level, and legal representativeness. Men who witness abuse while growing up as a child, who have been unemployed, who are married in ... more complete analysis. More work is needed to establish the causal sequence leading to re-victimization since it is unknown how childhood experiences of violence gets translated into adul...

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... the work force has not resulted in a lessening of their domestic responsibilities. To many, the prospect of active involvement in politics must seem little more than a potential additional burden. There are great differences in how involved women are in politics, if they are involved in a political sense at all. Countries with high levels of gender equality will have more ... being tested must be given. The Microcase global data files give comprehensible definitions for these variables. The dependent variable, % Female Legislation represents the percent of parliamentary seats held by wom...

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... those housewives who were left at home doing traditional tasks. " In contrast to many other historians, he believes that the wartime changes affecting women did not end in 1945, but continued to shape their lives after the conflict." Studies by Margaret Goldsmith and Gertrude William's suggest that indeed ... women found their jobs mundane and repetitive, and commented that " boredom is our worst enemy." The experience of working with rough, course men was also a frequent complaint, and women were frequently told that as soon as the war was over they would made redundant. This did little...

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... . Admittedly, they have proven their continued success to the communist government back in Vietnam and become the model minority group in American society. Based on a short-time study of Little Saigons, a Vietnamese ethnic enclave, and Paris by Night, a musical cultural variety show, this paper examines the social, cultural, and emotional significance of such culture preservation in the ... Vietnamese American community was undergoing tremendous changes. Especially in Orange County, California, Paris by Night videos turned into a huge success with the social, cultural and commercial deve...

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... female circumcision. The Western world and notably Western feminists argue that female circumcision was instituted and continues to be practiced in Africa to promote patriarchy and to control women's sexuality (Little, 1988). These allegations concerning female circumcision have created a bias against the practice and the people that adhere to it. In the female circumcision context, the West ... society is determined by lineage traced through fathers, female circumcision reduces the uncertainty surrounding paternity by discouraging or preventing women's sexual activity outside of marriage...

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... is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly physical, intellectually disengaged, and under-waged, so that there was little possibility of accruing excess capital. Members of the working class did not have the luxury of imagining that their financial circumstances would improve ... women. Between 1861 and 1911 the number of male clerks had increased fivefold while the number of women clerks had risen by 400 per cent- (28). From the description of Mr Darling on his stool, it is clear that he does not hold a senior position of responsibility but performs "routine- work that of...

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... The question remains how do they keep their marriage from falling apart. Though as stated in the journal article Women's Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce the Role Specialization Hypothesis had found little support, it seems that it is quiet evident in this case study. As Phil takes on the role ... Theodore twenty-two at the time of marriage (Wrenn 1980*). And the fact that Theodore as the assumed breadwinner in the family had relatively little education, providing for his family was specially made difficult by his lack of motivation. As the Role Specialization theory suggests, ...

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... One of the ways by which to ensure this would be to pump foreign assistance into population planning programs in such areas. Thus it is little wonder that a large part of the bilateral and multilateral assistance received by Bangladesh is channelised into the population sector. This has led to ... can easily be threatened in many ways to prevent her from appearing in court. In other words as long as women's subordination under existing social relations remains a fact, very little can be achieved through these legislative measures. On the other hand if they very idea of the Family Court ...

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... a true extension of homo ludens, then the Restoration offers an example of one of the most rare games in the theatrical history. Played first in a theatre that was little more than a salon, and reflecting the behaviour of an unusually homogeneous audience whose preconceptions the audience shared, Restoration comedy rapidly developed an intimate style of speech and behaviour whose ... writers including William Wycherley, George Farquhar, William Congreve, and Aphra Behn. (Barton,3) Given a period with such socio-historical background and male dominated constraint, an era where women publ...

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... use undermines marital relations and distresses wives (Bridges et al., 2003). Husbands report loving their spouses less after long periods of looking at women depicted in pornography (Zillmann & Bryant, 1998). In many cases, the wives of pornography users also develop deep psychological wounds, commonly reporting ... be so high as to require clinical treatment for trauma, not mere discomfort (Steffens & Rennie, 2006). Individuals who view pornography have little or no emotional involvement during sexual activities because they are only interested in the sexual acts. As such wives are ro...

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... be predisposing factors, however, they are more likely to be classified as dis-inhibitors than causal influences (Hunter, 1999, Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d., Van et al., 2007). Little research has been conducted on the role of substance abuse, therefore, its overall effects to the juvenile sexual offending population remains unclear (Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.) Ethological factors receiving ... 2010). For instance, in 1984 a study that was conducted by Finkelhor & Russell concluded that about 5% of female children and 20% of male children exposed to sexual p...

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... Although the homosocial environments in which action heroes often find themselves tend to preclude heterosexual liaisons, both Vanishing Son and Martial Law link their Chinese protagonists romantically with Euro-American women. Although Sammo's dalliance with his girlfriend plays comically, given his hefty build, and the love interest disappears after he pairs up with Tyrell, the fact remains that both ... a house, in his absence, for his young fan, and Ray goes to jail as Cliff goes off with his mother. Thus, the plot resolution, in each case, does little to mollify fundamental social...

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... low to non-existent incomes. Conversely, sterilization is not always forced upon women of color. Even in the 1930s, women sought out sterilization as a means of permanent birth control. After having three to four kids and with little to no access to dependable means of health care services or birth control, women welcomed the idea of sterilization to relieve their worries of becoming pregnant ... ) viewed the federally funded sterilization procedures as a free method and their only solid option of birth control. Today, there are similar reasons why women may view sterilization as more be...

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... stroll) to shop, enjoy a pastry, or just meet friends. As they take their evening walk you will observe men with women, men with men, and women with women, walking arm in arm or holding hands in public. Sunday afternoons are usually dedicated to the same kind of activities, though ... partner. An increasing number of young couples choose to live together before marriage, paying little more than a nod to tradition, and many younger Italian women pursue a series of short-term romantic relationships with little regard for social convention. Especially when they travel or study outside Italy...

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... " according to (Crooks and Baur, 1999. p.50). Individuals that would be considered to be true hermaphrodites are rare and there is very little information about them as with many of the other conditions that fall under the umbrella of intersexuality. Intersexual's suffer a great deal at the ... medical community in much the same way that women and minorities have today and in the past. Unfortunately there seems to be little information about intersexed individuals within the general public as well as within the medical world. Virtually very little was known about intersexed people until t...

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... their partners and ultimately become sexual objects and reproductive vehicles for men. Most of the attention given to the health problems associated with FGM concentrate on the physical aspect, with little attention to the psychological problems, since the psychological complications of FGM may be submerged (appearing later in life) and are not, in any case, taken seriously, even ... untreated, such conditions can progress to psychopathological levels. As a clinician in public hospitals in Sudan, I have observed thousands of women who come in with vague symptoms of general fatigue, loss ...

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... printing press. With total removal of the traditional hierarchy for salvation, women were encouraged to study the scriptures for themselves. This theological education allowed women to interpret the meanings of the scriptures in a religion that fortunately, had very little true demands for female subjection. The Hebrew and Christian Bible portray women in a mostly positive, proactive light. God did not create people ... (men and women) to be his slaves. This is the fundamental aspect of ... to human history. With the invention of factories the entire dynamic of family, community, and gen...

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... presents a clear and present danger to businesses. Companies must act now; otherwise they face increasing risk of liability (Mcafee2). Ever since sexual harassment received attention, there is often very little understanding and confusion among employers and employees of what constitutes sexual harassment in the work setting. People sometimes commit acts, which may be construed as sexual harassment without even being ... harassment in the minds of most men and women is very broad. In this paper, I concentrate on the experiences of women because even though women can sexually harass men,...

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... demonstrated the consequences for both the relative deprivation behavior and attitudes. Soon, within the classes everyone was fighting: women, men, and children contributed to the fight for freedom from Diaz (Baxman 2). The separation created a large poverty problem in the lower class. Very little people owned land because of the government's taking the lower class's land. Therefore, the poor could not make ... to fight for a better future for themselves as well as the generations in the future. In order to overcome the issues involving women, they fought fearlessly and selflessly to ma...

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