... the current issues within a society's culture. "Shame" is a 1988 Australian film that reflects some of the pernicious issues that have become naturalized in our real-life society, such as a deep rooted rape culture upheld by a dominant male discourse. The film follows a barrister, Asta Cadell, as she travels ... with internalised misogyny as accepting of the same cultural assumptions of the rapists. It exposes how the male hegemony has been accepted by our society and that rape has become the natural expression for male dominance because as a culture we assume men are entitled to this p...

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... fully belong to that group which we naturally belong. Social constructivists unlike evolutionary psychologists believe that we are conscious when constructing our identities and so our behaviours also, this may be true and we may suppress many behaviours that stem from evolutionary forces although not always, for ... bought accordingly. And it doesn't stop there, school uniforms are usually dresses for girls trousers for boys, and so it goes on throughout our lives. The media, social relations, work and rules of institutions all seem to have ideas about what is and what is not appropriate...

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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 between men and women have usually been ascribed to biology; that is, men's bodies appear with penis, no breasts ... ...

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... established female literary writers who pooled their efforts to form a community and build the women's literary tradition that exists today. In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". Not only was this how the "women's literary revolution" evolved, but it was also the dominant force in Woolf's argument in that, she argues that ... ideas but, this outside fellowship was rarely promoted. For this reason, most outside experiences were learned through the eyes of a woman's mother, hence Woolf's quote "For we think back through our mothers if we ar...

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... interaction. Ultimately, the book creatively unmasked the truth about their struggle for professionalism, rendering the public to ponder and turn their viewpoints upon gender racism that is still rampant in our society. In acknowledging transgender rights as a global conflict, it surely does matter to uproot the main causes of gender inequality in order to yield a more congenial and productive workplace environment ... ...

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... a female sometimes represents "a sexual freedom that 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 ... ...

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