For two hundred years, patriarchy precluded women from having a legal or political identity and 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 ... gender difference is socially produced in order to sustain male dominance (Seidman, 1994). Frable (1997) points out that there is no basis for a biological account of gender difference since gender identity can only refer to the psychological sense of being male or female. Gender is now understood as a...

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... al., 2003, pp. 3) However, this appears to be the only value it has added to the discipline of victimology, as it has not necessarily added any further knowledge concerning the identity or tendencies of victims or offenders, and it is worth noting that many of the studies were criticised and discredited for flawed methodology and ideology. Therefore, despite its use of ... ...

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Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman argued that gender was less a component of identity -fixed, static- that we take with us into our interactions, but rather the product of those interactions. In our societies, there is the dimension of masculinity versus femininity. Historically, differences ... ...

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... delimits autonomy and power" how does that operate in a context where traditional gender roles have been inverted? In what way is power redistributed when our crossing dressing protagonists reveal their identity and to whom? And does Sidney ultimately write in favour of female rule or against it? Issues concerning the cult of Elizabeth, and her immortalisation in literature are also relevant ... ...

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