... Labour office which concluded that there was definite evidence that there had been a move in women's position, yet it would more than likely be a short term shift due to the inevitable employment shortage which would occur when servicemen returned home. Some historians are of the opinion that the relative changes in ... in the post- war relationships between men and women. In opposition to this marriage and birth rates peaked after the war, though again this was a short term trend. Marwick assumes that the war allowed women access to paid employment for the first time. However statistics...

• Word Count: 2750
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Male dominance and female complicity in "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" Katherine Mansfield's "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" is a short tale dealing with the relationships between husband and wife in late 19th Century German society. This is achieved by viewing the attitudes of people in various stages of their relationship: A newly ... afterwards, which, if read by itself, would not intimate anything sinister or unhappy about the idea. However, the theme of suppression and domestic violence is developed very soon within the tale. Frau Brechenmacher's husband, from the first, ...

• Word Count: 1523
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Bernice Kanner address these gender oriented issues from the point of view of a male and female, for whom gender heightens the distortion and its consequences. In Lois Gould's "X: A Fabulous Child's Tale," and Bernice Kanner's "Big Boys Don't Cry: Returning the Macho Message," each author's uses a legion of literary devices to identify the reader with the moral message he or she has ... such as structure, tone and perspective. In Lois Gould's article the author uses the structure of a fictitious story to create the proper mood and tone. In Gould's story she tells a tale of a young X tha...

• Word Count: 1388
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to perform in cultural sphere (79.4% male, 71.7% female). The 36.6% of male and 41.3% of female respondents think that their political rights are infringed. But 47% of male and 39.9% of female respondents feel that it is possible to perform in political sphere. About 20% of respondent could not answer at least one question. Most of them are people from ... Female Male Female Economic 66.5 58.8 21.8 26.1 11.7 15.1 Social 71.9 62.1 15.8 21.2 12.2 16.6 Cultural 84.5 76.8 7.1 11.9 8.4 11.3 Civil 79.4 71.7 10.8 15.2 9.8 13.0 Political 48.0 39.9 36.6 41.3 15.4 18.8 Professional 59.0 54.3 27.0...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... feels prostitution is disgraceful if the women within his family engage as participants. The Vietnamese's respectful opinion of the magnanimity of prostitution is grounded in the country's literary cultural epic, Tale of Kieu. As Andrew learns of this ancient text, his professor states that Kieu, '"says everything about the Vietnamese She is a prostitute, The things she has done are ... with prostitutes. The emotionless sex inherently becomes a part of manhood in this situation, just as violence and control. Pham is constantly trying to establish his masculinity but seemingly alway...

• Word Count: 2179
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Karen Ford's feminist criticism brings up several interesting points pertaining to "The Yellow Wallpaper" that are not necessarily clear to the reader of this short story at first glance. However, once the story is scrutinized, these points become evident. When read with a feminist perspective, certain parts of the story start standing out more and taking ... women should do out with the old and resort to drastic methods to break away from their male imposed roles. Ford's explanation can surely help the reader understand that Gilman's tale of a woman's descent into madness is a story with d...

• Word Count: 552
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . At first glance and with the most shallowness of analysis it can be assumed that these women are "bad women ", especially when set up against the woman of "The Clerk's Tale " whose submissiveness was often celebrated and elevated as something all women should strive to emulate. The standard set to consider the "goodness " of a woman in this time period, then, must ... looks at Noah's wife in "Noah's Flood ", one cannot help but observe her initial defiance and write her off as an opposition to the ideal woman. Similar to the biblical tale of the ark of Noah, God has, with much detail, ...

• Word Count: 1394
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... those times. However, after reading The Plantation Mistress, I have come to realize that the leisure status of the planter's lady is a fairy tale that I scooped up. Darn that Hollywood. Hollywood has also portrayed the plantation mistress as a romantic fairy tale. However, Clinton dispels this by using correspondence from women of the time, and summarizing the dilemmas and problems faced by these ladies ... ...

• Word Count: 582
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... education of an aristocrat, while remaining poor and powerless in her own domestic sphere as a woman governess. In quoting the character Jane, "To open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended, a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence." Jane is hurting at this ... ...

• Word Count: 1148
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... and thus be a "home for fallen women would be another total world for him to control. Here he could create and run everything according to his rules." (Hartley 39) The fallen woman shows defiance by making the transition from the private and feminine space to the public and masculine space. The punishment of death is Tennyson's stern warning to ... ...

• Word Count: 3387
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a shared political priority list or even a set of issues one must espouse to be feminist inheriting critiques of sexist dominant culture and embracing pop culture that supported women" (Baumgardner, p. 39). Additionally, this Third Wave saw the rise of combining the feminist movement with the fight against other forms of oppression, especially those of homophobia and racism. Combahee explains this concept ... ...

• Word Count: 1285
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... and Dufour 1998) Yet, females are not non-existent in the criminal justice system because the number of women in State prisons grew 75% from 1986 to 1991, reaching almost 39,000 by mid 1991. At that time female offenders had risen from 4.7 % in 1986 to 5.2 % of prisoners in 1991 (Snell, 1994). Thus the knowledge that gender differences in crime should ... ...

• Word Count: 1540
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DeLamater, J., Friedrich, W. N. (2002). Human Sexual Development. The Journal of Sex Research 39 (pp. 10-14). This article is a broad over view of human sexual development. The article begins with early childhood and discusses that male infants get erections and vaginal lubrication has ... ...

• Word Count: 398
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... lesbian literature. Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. It is with this type of reading perhaps that a lesbian narrative space is created by Cather in "My Antonia." Cather illustrates a story of Jim Burden and his relationship with Antonia ... ...

• Word Count: 2062
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Aphra Behn's genre-blending tale "Oroonoko" melds travel narrative with fictional biography to tell the story of Prince Oroonoko, "the royal slave. Although Behn writes of Oroonoko's honor as unique among men, her admiration for ... ...

• Word Count: 876
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... 's views of this aspect throughout her novel. In doing so, the reader is forced to confront the reality of Middle Eastern cultures and lifestyles. In conclusion, Soueif parallels her romantic tale to that of nineteenth and early twentieth century female novelists. In turn, commanding readers of now to confront the same issues of then, via another culture's "looking glass.""...

• Word Count: 465
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Medea is an epic tale of a struggle between two characters, an opportunistic, deceitful man and a barbaric sorceress, opposed by gender and capabilities. As such, this play highlights the importance of Medea's character through interpretation of ... ...

• Word Count: 1150
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... Ithaca, reinstating honor to his kingdom and love in his life. His character applauded and imitated, Odysseus realizes the alpha male stereotype. Continuing the 2,500 year old tradition, this epic tale is taught to children and its hero is preserved as a role model for young men in America. In addition to influencing Western interpretations of science, design, politics and social structure ... ...

• Word Count: 1610
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... less being able to exert any sort of meaningful political influence. But again, Aristophanes is following the great dramatic tradition of asking the audience "what if?" Although presented as a humorous tale, the play on the whole is quite sad. The story still gives voice to the constant male versus female battle of ideologies and sensibilities. Athens was not simply a democracy, as ... ...

• Word Count: 1075
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... the first component as sociosexual behavior as individual differences in sociosexuality are initially behavioral. Throughout time, a person's history of sociosexual behavior exhibits his or her general division of effort to short-term v. long-term mating strategies (Roff, 1992). Nevertheless, at any given point in life, previous sociosexual behavior indicates a person's individual experiential history in the mating field, and ... whom no steadfast romantic relationship exists (Simpson et al., 2004). Therefore implying that sociosexual desire is the motivational tool to assign mating effo...

• Word Count: 1702
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... , specifically the menstrual cycle, Martin forms a juxtaposition against the male sperm, that is "something deemed valuable," "strong and streamlined" (Martin, 488,489). However, as she uses short and what seems to be cherry picked quotations that fail to capture whole ideas from the textbooks, the fallibility of her argument comes into question. She goes on to show ... , in the midst of the authors' argument to prove said sex differences, they neglect to acknowledge males to have the same emotional capacity as females, claiming that "men pursue short-term mating, they are usually less se...

• Word Count: 1414
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a concise bulleted list of its five-year plan to increase opportunities for women. In the blue box to the right of the page, under the title "Mexico", is a short sentence about the number of female associates at Walmart Mexico who completed its Taking the Stage program. In another blue box in the center middle of the page, under the ... the page, in two pale blue boxes, showcase two women in its Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative program. Each box has photo of the woman, her name, her job title, and short story on how she benefited from the program. On the very bottom of the page, ...

• Word Count: 896
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... book, Psychology the Seventh Edition, is, " the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence" (Myers 159). Many changes occur in behavior, attitudes, and feelings in a relatively short period of time during adolescence. It is often at this point that a clear change can be recognized in the role of the parent in the child's life. Gender roles are ... immensely. Girls are expected to take on the maternal and nurturing role while boys are expected to remain tough and be active in violent sports and risk-taking situations. The short story Boys and Gi...

• Word Count: 1761
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Di Prima presents feminism through the use of her female character living out the unique, atypical female life of a bachelor in her autobiographical short story "Dinners and Nightmares" and "What I Ate Where". The uniquely styled short story primarily focuses on a woman living in what seems to be a one-bedroom apartment, jumping from job to job, eating anything she ... ...

• Word Count: 2160
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The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. In The Comet, W.E.B. Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New ... racial or sexual segregation with use of imagery/plot and apocalyptic language, and demand equal treatment of people regardless of their race or sexuality. An interesting fact about these two short stories is that they were published before great attention was directed to the civil rights or LGBT rights movements. Du Bois a...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate