... significant flaws, particularly for a reader who is insistent upon assessing the relative moral virtue of these characters. Shakespeare permits the women to struggle within and against inflexible social expectations in an effort to determine their own destiny and, in the process, shape the ways in which other people's power and influence are affected. Some of the women, such as the four who were considered in this paper, are successful in challenging those expectations ... of others (Ehnnen 318), not only in the plays as Shakespeare wrote them, but in the ways they have been performed a...

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... that feminism has had on their attitudes, they have fought a long and hard battle for equal rights in the workplace and in education. As a result of them practically 'winning' the battles to a certain extent more females are in paid-employment that in the last 50 years with lead them to become more financially independent which has also caused females to gain more freedom, equality and status inside ... trousers on a Saturday doesn't make him a 'good' husband and it also doesn't mean he is helpful in the home. For example Young and Willmott regard a husband who washes up at le...

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... Mark Duggan, a black man, on the 4th of August in Tottenham was seen as the trigger for these protests. Likewise in Ferguson, the fatal shooting of African American Michael Brown by a white police officer on the 9th of August last year was seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. In both riots, gender and intersectional politics were both evident in the nature of the riots and in the discourse and language employed by rioters ... say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black' (Birbalsingh, 2011: online.). In Ferguson, the racial make-up of the rioters...

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... can reform these existing policies to become more inclusive and create a safer and more aware environment. The language used in reports differs due to the audience; for example, in reports directed towards the government in the hope for policy reform, the language and formatting is precise and in bullet points, highlighting the key information in a clear way. In the report by the NCTE, a chapter called "Reforming Police and Ending Anti-Transgender Violence" gives a brief intro into ... the problem at hand, noting that in the LGBT community "nearly 3 out of 4 of lethal crimes [are] co...

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... Violenta is not adverse to Count Roderigo's suit; rather, her objections lie in the Count's intentions of having Violenta trade in her virginal status, in effect, her honor, without offering the proper recompense - marriage - in return. One could say then, while Violenta is not making her virtue available for sale, she certainly is waiting for a society-sanctioned "trade-off" of sorts to take place ... behavior, of maidenly characteristics that speak of true innocence rather than a projection of innocence for propriety's sake? If acting a certain way rather than truly being that way is t...

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... upon as the lesser of the two sexes and expected to maintain the domiciliary roll in society but this view would begin to change in the mid to later part of the nineteenth century. In order for women to shed their preconceived social status as being the lesser of the two sexes (essential in building women's tradition in the literary arts), it would be necessary for the aspiring woman writer to acquire the tools needed in order to ... stand on her own in society. In order to accomplish this, she would need to ... ...

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... femininity, and simultaneously exerting power reserved for a male monarch. Elizabeth's use of language to describe herself resonates with the way gender, power and sexuality were used in the literature of the time. Marie Axton equates this resurgence of the theory of the king's two bodies as "an attempt to deal with paradox" . Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not only ... the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbolically married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female state, when there...

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... , cross species, cross cultural perspectives, psychological perspectives. (Rathus 2011) I learnt that societal attitudes towards homosexuals variety across culture, for example in the ancient Greek society homosexuals are treated equally and are not discriminated, while in the Jamaica context due to religious beliefs which prohibits homosexuality and it is against the law in a Jamaica a negative stigma is most often attached to homosexuality and homosexuals which most often results ... . Like heterosexual, homosexuals value family life and express affection and emotion, they also play the...

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... as issues on accurate identity documents. Gender markers have become a nuisance when transgenders apply for work, making it more troublesome for underprivileged transgenders to make a living. This form of covert discrimination greatly affected not only their personal lives, but also the people they consider as family. As studies frequently stated in the book, consequent loss of jobs led to homelessness of a huge population of transgender population ... . For the same reason, healthcare access created various dilemmas as transgenders find it hard to find healthcare professionals who could...

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... through social judgement and retribution. "Shame" uses misé en scene, most predominantly through selection of characters and composition, to reflect how within our society rape is an act of dominance and power allowed by a male hegemony. Character selection within the scene is used to expose the cyclic nature of rape culture that is upheld by a dominant male discourse through multiple generations. Within ... , and that this cultural assumption is passed down through generations because of the dominant male discourse allowing for this assertion of power to occur. In the film the characte...

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... -Saxon society up to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women's movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to challenge many of the patriarchal views long held by Australian society. Many women began to campaign for equality and the freedom to be seen ... as individuals. Throughout the 70's up until current times patriarchy has been challenged on all levels ... ...

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... they went to. It's not uncommon for a professional football or basketball player to donate a few million dollars to their alma mater; however it is very rare that a professional female athlete makes a donation upwards of a million dollars to her former college. In conclusion, the passing of Title IX as a law is one of the biggest legislative blunders in the history of The United States, even surpassing affirmative action ... as the most senseless drain on the collegiate world. The only solution to this problem is to abolish Title IX as a law and put in its place a regulation that is muc...

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... feminist research and findings such as this that significantly influenced various reforms and political shifts within the criminal justice system. For example, the 'Stern Review', published in 2010, highlighted the "abysmal" treatment that rape victims were subjected to as they went through the criminal justice process. (BBC, 2010) Subsequently, it outlined key recommendations of new practices and ... justice system, which now allow rape victims to be treated much more respectfully than in the past. Despite this, female victimology offers no explanations concerning any other forms ...

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... suggesting that other factors may be responsible for aggression. Social roles typically assigned to both sexes has been said to account for the differences in aggression between the sexes. Literature and mass media show predominantly men acting in the violent roles. Parents tend to buy toys for their children according to their gender, such as dolls for girls and toy weapons for boys. In circumstances where their son has stood up ... for himself, possibly aggressively, parents are more likely to reward or ... ...

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... oppressed as being the secondary position in any fields of societies. For example, for women reproductive control is fundamental to liberty, but the pressure to restrict the availability of abortion is also mounting in the independent states of the former Soviet Union. This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female body". And this might result in the primary association ... of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. In liberal ... ...

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... and federal laws to explicitly state the crimes that exist in the college environment in a way that leaves room for interpretation when concerning the gender of the parties involved in sexual misconduct incidents. On the contrary, the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland imply gender inequality in the organization and diction of their respective policies. The University of Southern California, for example, specifically and carefully uses the words "person," "victim" and "survivor" to ... distinguish the roles involved in sexual harassment and misconduct, but ...

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... chemicals such as hormones, they believe that to promote successful reproduction different characteristics and patterns of behaviour have developed in males and females. Reasons given for these differences in behaviours are factors such as the way females have a bigger investment in their offspring, the prolonged care needed in order for them to survive. A healthy and strong mate who could provide and protect herself and their child would ensure ... be part of this strategy. Evolutionary psychologists also have an answer for why humans commit to one another , this they believe stems fro...

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... the legislation and attitudes supporting this provided the model for slavery. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries suffrage campaigners succeeded in securing some legal and political rights for women in the UK. By the middle of the 20th century, the emphasis had shifted from suffrage to social and economic equality in the public and private sphere and the women's movement that sprung up during the ... 1960s began to argue that women were oppressed by patriarchal structures. Equal status for ... equality does not mean being like men (Sarup, 1993). Radical feminists successfully argu...

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