... make (or break) a reputation and far less of concrete actions, where then, is the value of genuinely virtuous 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 the only way for a woman to find favor in the rigid restraints of society, the flaw then lies directly with the social, societal system that fosters such false standards ... of living and demand that people, specifically women, adhere ... ...

• Word Count: 1986
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... that 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, ... Willmott's 'symmetrical' family, She also states that ...

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... sports programs sell much more sports memorabilia, and receive many more alumni donations. The most obvious reason why men's sports deserve a much larger percent of their college's athletic budget is the simple reason that they are responsible for generating a much larger percent of their school's athletic revenue than the women's athletic programs. Putting money into a sport that has high ticket sales ... 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...

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... a way for information to reach a wide array of individuals. With the increased need for change in governmental legislation, general awareness to reduce violence and stigma against the community, and to inform the public on the struggles connected to accessing health care, the transgender community oftentimes uses written reports to identify issues at hand and how they can be solved. One goal for the community is ... to reform governmental policy and create change in laws so that the transgender community is protected and valued. People in this community, especially sex workers, are at th...

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... 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 ... 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...

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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 ... is heavily based upon reductionism and determinism. It has also ironically failed to take gender, race and age into ...

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... is her vigorous and thoughtful consideration about the participants' ideology of their own identity, testimonial confidentiality, and information accessibility. 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 ...

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... 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 ... prominent factor when constructing our own and others" identities. As social beings we derive a sense of identity through belonging to groups, the ...

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... schools was associated with initiation by the boys. However a dispute does occur over an explanation for these sex differences, and as with most psychological theories, the dispute centres around the nature-nurture debate. Nature orientated theories involve the role of sex hormones, innate characteristics and natural physiological responses to explain the differences, while nurture orientated theories argue the influence of society and constraints of social roles. Ethologists such as Eibl ... -Eibesfeldt (1989) argue that the contrasting physiological responses between the sexes, to aggr...

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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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... Thursday the 11th of August. The killing of 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 ... would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black' (Birbalsingh, 2011: online.). In Ferguson, the racial make-...

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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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... 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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... 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 ... her or his privacy after a traumatic experience" ("University"). T...

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... 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 they were the less of the two sexes. The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for ... letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the ... ...

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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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... is a male-based authority. Until this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and even heroic female figure, especially for the feminist reader, for both in this and other examples from A Midsummer Night's Dream she has succeeded in breaking the rigid mold of social conventions and expectations. In the rest of the play, however, Hermia reveals other aspects of her personality that confirm how complex every human being ... encounters an altogether different type of woman in Gertrude, the mother of Hamlet. Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, is obviously the most privileged and possib...

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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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