... hand. Reports such as "A Blueprint for Equality" by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and "An Ally's Guide to Talking About Transgender-Inclusive Non-Discrimination Laws" by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) provide insight into what issues in the law people in the transgender community are subject to and solutions to how the government can reform these existing policies to become ... racial bias presents a significant, additional risk of discrimination for transgender and gender non-conforming peopl...

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... to sexual chastity, but also underlines the foolishness of leaving women at the mercy of the often questionable chivalric urges of men. Violenta's inopportune fall from grace then raises the question of what exactly substantiates the societal constructs that women of the 18th century had to suffer - the truth? Or a convincing performance of what the truth is expected to be? Throughout the novel, honor and sexual chastity are linked inexorably with ... reputation, the implication being that the former two are very determinedly dependent on the latter. The sole reason society condemns Vio...

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... recent studies have shown to have a masculinizing effect on the foetus while still developing. Children, who had been exposed to the hormone while developing in the mothers" womb, were subsequently investigated in a study carried out by June Reinisch which generated evidence that males and females both exposed to the hormone were likely to act more aggressively than their non exposed ... siblings. The hormone had invariably affected their developing brains, increasing their ... frequencies of unprovoked violence. Similar results were recorded in a study by James Dabbs and Robin Morris, ...

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... 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 feminist who is critic of the Young and Willmott's symmetrical family study and isn't convinced by their evidence as she believes that occasional help from a husband like ironing his own 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 least once ... a week as 'help...

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Victimology refers to the scientific study of the "extent, nature and causes of criminal victimisation, it's consequences for the persons involved and the reactions thereto by society". (World Society of Victimology, cited in Goodey 2005, pp.10) Various perspectives of victimology have been put forward since the mid-twentieth century when it first emerged. The main perspectives include; feminist victimology, positivist victimology, radical victimology, and critical victimology. Each of ... position of criminology which assumes that there is an interrelationship between the victim, the offe...

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... modern times this behaviour of guarding is seen as one of the lesser desirable trait of jealousy. Buss et al, 1992 Evolutionary psychologists believe the reason it was found that males are more likely to sleep with a stranger then females ( a finding from a study conducted by Clarke and Hatfield (1989) can also be explained by the evolutionary reproductive strategy in males, but there have been many ... other reasons put forward, for instance could it just be the fact that men are more likely because it is expected of them or because it ... ...

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... War //, but there are different views of democracy which become polarized between the West and the East with the advent of Cold War. The West emphasized individualism, self-interest and liberty, and the East stressed collectivism and equality. But since the demise of socialist system in 1991 and then the triumph of liberal capitalism as well as the western-style democracy, the post-Cold War claimed that liberal democracy lays foundation for a new world ... context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female body". And this might result in the primary associatio...

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... 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 and the media. The process of gendering occurs when males and females are constructed as masculine and feminine through social norms and discourse. In the case of the August riots in London, a gendering process was evidenced in ... it demonstrates the complex inter-space between the simple dichotomy formed in the discourse on the riots. Rather than slipping through th...

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... also mindful of setting boundaries in determining transgender identities in selecting the right participants for the study. Though this process was unsuccessful, Bender-Baird was triumphant in opening up the purpose of the study with clear and organized objectives and that is to examine and understand the political terrain they are treading and its appositeness to gender racialization, which are the meaningful foci of her open-ended inquisitions. An all-inclusive chapter ... of the book conjointly discussed the anti-discrimination and harassment laws that address the issues and grievanc...

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... . Wordsworth, who was born to a wealthy family and who's father was a very prominent lawyer, had the luxury of studying his craft at university, with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. These companions of Wordsworth's, but most importantly collaborators had the advantage of a male tradition in literature to work and study from. Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three of many examples ... of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage the women writers would seek el...

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... three major categories which arre based on erotic attraction which includes homoerotic which mean developing heteroerotic and bi-erotic (Mosher 2005). Most often sexual orientation and gender identity is misunderstood because, I personally taught that both were actually the same, but now I know that sexual orientation refers to what gender one is erotically ... 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 a...

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... of Title IX: Student Participation in Athletics, Part Three: Effectively Accommodating Interests and Abilities; In the assessment of the "interests and abilities" portion of the Title IX regulations, a three part test governs. This law states that: "This part of the test is satisfied when an institution is meeting the interests and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males ... than ten percent of that in total profits is utterly foolish and profoundly stupid. However, any logical member of the administration of the athletic departmen...

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... to see rape as a normal manifestation of male dominance. Composition has also been used within this scene by placing the boys in intimidating positions to demonstrate the power they hold in the situation and to represent the power that they hold in our society. A frequent occurrence within the film, which is shown in this scene, is women being encircled by men in large groups, working together ... of sexual desire. The characterization of Asta within the film, through her behavior and appearance is used to contrast the typical association of a victim of rape. Communicating to the viewer...

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... women to overcome societies long held views of patriarchy. The feminist reader in today's society may think the view in the extract from the expository text is a typical example of how men put women down and oppressed women's rights in the sixties. Women's rights and individualism were completely ignored in this text and feminists would perhaps view the text as being nothing more than a classic example of ... wants to make a success of her marriage," both examples here reveal clearly that Patriarchal society viewed marriage as the women's responsibility, whereas today the responsibility o...

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... Queen from her inferior female body. John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ... "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the rest, but that the eyes were in the hands, the tongue and mouth beneath in the belly, an...

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... to comply with his wish that she marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. Egeus doesn't choose the court on a whim; rather, he is hopeful that by taking Hermia to the literal and symbolic seat of the highest authority of the land, she will recognize and honor masculine authority and, by extension, will comply with traditional gender roles, which dictated that a woman should marry to either preserve ... calm. She protests, but is neither aggressive nor apologetic in doing so. In fact, Hermia deploys a clever and intelligent argumentative strategy to respond to the men and to m...

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... 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 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 ... of male privilege, which could only be expressed if the general strategies of patriarchal structure were intact and functio...

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... 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 keep the designated roles gender neutral ("University ... "). However, the University constantly places the fema...

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