By the nineteenth century, industrialization was in full swing, as were the gender roles inaugurated by the historical turning point; but those gender ideals were short lived as female Irish immigrants flooded American streets in search of "men's" work. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopted a more traditional American behavior in their homes (if they could afford to do so), dividing the men and women into gender role stereotypes; the male was the primary provider for the family, working a "white-collar" job, while the w...

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The First Wave of the feminist movement began in the nineteenth century with the suffragettes' fight for political and legal equality. ... The feminist movement has been fighting for this change in society since the nineteenth century, and many accomplishments for the female gender have been achieved in the process. ...

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The Social Origin of Domestic Violence Domestic violence is the use of physical force within a home in any form of abuse mainly to women. For years, many women have been victims of the conjugal aggression which is a serious issue in today's society, and it is often overlooked. This social pro...

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Amber Ashpole Social Division of the Pacific Northwest in the Early 20th Century The Pacific Northwest by definition of it geography encouraged a split social environment. ... Therefore, even though the geography of the Pacific Northwest played a large part in creating a social division in the early 20th century, it was the lack of economic, political, and social rights for women that had the most profound affect on the populace. ... The Cult of True Womanhood was a series of rules and suggestions for the urbanized women of the early 20th Century. ... By gaining the respect of men,...

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Foucault claimed that sexual categories such as "homosexual" did not exist until the late nineteenth century when doctors and scientists invented them as they sought to understand sexuality. ... However, the introduction of lexis for "perversions" created specific groups, "The sodomite was a recidivist, but the homosexual is now a species the homosexual of the 19th century became a person: a past, a history and an adolescence, a personality, a life style; also a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mystical physiology. ... Scnitzler like Freud, conducted explorations into p...

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The Women's Movements; Nineteenth Century Social Reform Movement, Twentieth Century Freedom Movement and Women's Rights Movement in post 1975 period, have brought to the forefront a wide range of gender relations. ... 'Indian women's movement in the nineteenth century grew out of a cultural and nationalistic response to the British colonialist condemning of the treatment of women as barbaric and directly connected to Indian religious practices'; a big reason for Women engrossment was Mahatma Gandhi.10 His arrival back in India was a turning point for the freedom stru...

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At the end of the nineteenth century, America moved from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era where the social activists, politicians, and professionals called for social reforms in order to deal with the social problems associated with the rapid industrial growth. ...

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Gilbert and Gubar[7] suggested that Bertha's entrapment is symbolic of the attitudes of and towards female writers of the time period, "the intensely powerful, passionate, and talented woman who is seen as crazy and in need of confinement by the world represents the nineteenth-century woman writer"[8]. ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting...

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