... your Lordship, that I must perish if I prove otherwise: since I know it will be impossible for me to live after the loss of my honor" (146). Violenta reiterates the conventional belief of the time: the notion that the value of a woman's life is linked irrevocably to her virginal status, and, that a loss of the latter implied a loss of the former as "modesty is rarely or never to be regained." Perhaps somewhat astonishingly ... male protection fails them. Upon hearing of her husband's bigamy, Violenta is not overcome with shame neither does she retreat to a convent to lick her wounds, bu...

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... this has had a major impact on gender roles generally; females have started to reject the traditional housewife role due to the influence 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 and outside the home. Ann Oakley (1974) is a...

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... 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 much more logical. Opportu...

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... and valued. People in this community, especially sex workers, are at the highest risk for police violence and violence in general.2 To initiate reform and lower the rate of violence in the trans community, detailed reports are used to give accurate data and representation of the problem at hand. Reports such as "A Blueprint for Equality" by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and "An Ally's Guide to Talking About ... which its main focus was to "show that racial bias presents a significant, additional risk of discrimination for transgender and gender non-conforming ...

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... as very little control as it relates their sexual orientation because it is something developed from the inside. Sexual orientation may be defined as the directionality of one's sexual interest towards members of the same sex, the other sex, or both (Rathus 2011). Prior to the completion of this unit I thought that most homosexuals actually made the decision/choose to become a gay male or lesbian which is not always ... , cross cultural perspectives, psychological perspectives. (Rathus 2011) I learnt that societal attitudes towards homosexuals variety across culture, for example in the a...

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... . In order to provide rich, diverse, and reliable data for the readers, the author considered the age parameters, sexual orientation, type of occupation, and income levels of the participants – one of the many strengths of this book, which notably removes a considerable amount of information bias. The author's sensitivity about the definition of terms regarding transgenders entails her meaning precision and phraseological consistency. All five chapters of the book focus mainly on transgender issues, with minor and ... narrative style of portraying the participant's perspectives and e...

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... state 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 ... and refrain from framing a certain gender as the victim and victim...

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... get what they deserve." The use of slurs within this scene demonstrates how the blame for the rape has been shifted from the rapist to the victim, representing how these situations are carried out in our society. This also displays how the rape culture is reinforced by the entire community, presenting women with internalised misogyny as accepting of the same cultural assumptions of the rapists. It exposes how the male hegemony has been accepted ... their unrestrained actions as a representation on how rape is a natural expression of masculinity, and that this cultural assumption is pass...

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... in regards to aggressive behaviour. Statistics comparing FBI reports of crime rates between males and females in 1981, show not only that significantly more men were arrested for criminal offences than women, but that the crimes committed by women tended to be crimes less associated with violent attacks on others. In a cross cultural analysis of the behaviour of children, by Maccoby and Jacklin in 1974, reviewing ... studies of child behaviour dating back to the 1930's, and found that boys were typically more aggressive than ... ...

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... expected to play certain gender roles, and to challenge male authority was not acceptable. Many of the women's magazines of this particular era, focused on women's issues in the home and were often seen as useful guides for young women, wanting to become successful housewives. The responsibility for maintaining marriage was placed upon women, "Not enough women work at marriage- "If a ... formula eagerly taken up by the women of the day was thought to be the answer to any and every problem of married life in the sixties. In contrast to this today's contemporary magazines such as Cosmopol...

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... of Pauline Pearce. This gendering of the riots emphasised feminine domesticity – the protecting of homes and places of work – in the face of young male violence (Mainardi, 1970). The role of black women in the context of young black male rioting is something which is often neglected. In the case of Michael Brown, his mother was at the centre of a large amount of media coverage in the Ferguson riots, portrayed in many cases as a voice calling for ... would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black' (Birbalsingh, 2011: online.). In Ferguson, the racial ma...

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... draws attention to the crimes of the powerful, including the state. It is also concerned with structural inequalities and "how these come to shape and mould the distribution of victimisation". (Newburn, 2013, pp. 357) For this reason, radical victimology proposes that the concept of the term 'victim' includes "victims of police force, the victims of war, the victims of correctional system, the victims of state violence", and "the victims of oppression of any sort ... ". (Quinney, 1972, pp. 315) In spite of this, radical victimology has produced very little empirical ... ...

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... or freedom, but rather 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 ... and subordinate women are increasing in influence. Women are being excluded from formal political proces...

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... are more promiscuous because he has a more extensive potential capacity to reproduce and would so increase his number of mating improving the chances of producing as many offspring as possible, this with his preference for young healthy females would be a effective reproduction strategy. Because of the competition for these more choosy females males, according to evolutionary psychologists males became larger and stronger in order to compete with ... aggressive temperament that also seems to be part of this strategy. Evolutionary psychologists also have an answer for why humans commit t...

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... reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. For instance, In North Carolina the number of published women writers in the whole of the 1800's totaled 11, from 1900 to 1929 - 10, from 1930 to ... the struggle of aspiring women writers prior to the twentieth century was greatly due to the lack of build up of women in the literary arts thus the lack of women's tradition. With the advent of feminism, the organized and self-conscious movement of the 1830's emphasized that women assume a stand against authority and attack the preconceived notion that...

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... sex, religion and parents, however through a series of calculated speeches, Elizabeth populized the medieval theory of the king's two bodies, constructing an image of herself, exploiting 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 ... and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" , this is highly evident in...

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... that she is a woman who will decide what she deems best for herself based on a consideration of the consequences of the alternatives that are available to her. Interestingly though, she is using the delicate but weighty issue of power within her own defense, thus is offering a nod to the fact that there are such power differences between genders but not allowing ... the promotion of the plan she has concocted to direct her own destiny. Finally, the reader encounters an altogether different type of woman in Gertrude, the mother of Hamlet. Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, is obviously the ...

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... legal reforms of this century taking place in the last the last twenty years. These reforms particularly reflect the western feminist concern with differential relationships. In the area of social policy and the law, reformers have begun to focus on protecting the individual rights of vulnerable household members - women, children, and the elderly (MacLean & Kurczewzki 1994) at the expense of patriarchal privilege. Crucially, whilst the law has become aware of the potential for the exploitation of family members ... and in acting underlines the importance of public ... ...

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