... 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 ... é en scene, most predominantly through selection of characters and composition, to reflect how within our society rape is an act of dominance and power allowed by a male hegemony. Character selection within the scene is ...

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... - this time to an heiress. Despite having done everything according to the stipulations of how proper virtuous women should behave, Violenta is left destitute by her husband, for although he gives her 2,000 ducats the morning after the wedding, the exchange is unbalanced as he takes from her something that he cannot ( or will not ) replace - the reputation of her sexual chasteness. Violenta ... as a bargaining tool. And without that bargaining tool, no longer "pure" in either a bodily or a moral sense, her value has been stripped from her. She is quite literally reduced to nothing by th...

• Word Count: 1986
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Tradition in writing has always played a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. Tradition in this case refers to the heritage of struggle and triumph that has characterized ... did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. As women grew as literary writers by 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 ... know to occasionally write under the pen name Stephe...

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... , 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 and generates large crowds is clearly a worthwhile investment. Any athletic director who sees any sense in donating two million dollars to a girls" sports team that will in ... scholarships. Another clear reason why more school resou...

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... garnering attention from lawmakers and transgender activists worldwide. Kyla Bender-Baird's book, "Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law," is an insightful compilation of the transgender community's employment life and experiences with critical analysis on the politics behind bylaws governing gender rights and its implications in the real world. The book puts the spotlight on the ... pertaining to transgender employment protections, it has its own limitations. The participants whom Bender-Baird interviewed were predominantly Caucasians, if not mixed. As a...

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... characteristics associated with masculinity and femininity. Masculinity, first, stands for societies in which men are supposed to be assertive, tough, and focused on material success; women are supposed to be more modest, tender, and concerned with quality of life. The opposite pole, femininity stands for societies in which ... objective versus subjective, self versus other, reason versus emotion, autonomy versus relatedness, and culture versus nature; the first of each pair of characteristics is typically associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. Hence, these two senses ...

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The reason why the extract "Successful Marriage" taken from the expository text Women's World published in Australia in 1961 and edited by Alleyne Jukes, may mean different things to a contemporary reader of today in comparison to a reader from the sixties, is due to the vast ideological differences in societies concepts of how women should behave in comparison to the entrenched system of patriarchy ... Patriarchal society viewed marriage as the women's responsibility, whereas today the responsibility of having a successful marriage is placed upon both men and women. The main focus of this ex...

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... 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 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...

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... Cleophila assumes "the judgement seat of the duke" , and thus acts as a substitute for Basilius briefly adopting the responsibilities of a monarch. As Elizabeth is granted by God's permission "a body politic to govern" , so too Cleophila was destined by the Oracle to sit in Basilius's place: "And in thy throne a foreign state shall sit" . The function of the "king" remains unchanged, ... that gives her opportunity to speak. The delivery she makes could not have been achieved by someone who appeared to be male, yet ironically, the persuasiveness would require "the heart and stomach of a ki...

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... 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 ... to aggressive behaviour, while women prefer the more non-aggressive line of behaviour, such as "talking things over". Maccoby and Jacklin also suggest strong evidence that aggression is an innate characteristic,...

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... which the individual has no control over. Hence one 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 ... 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 the case. I learnt that sexual orientation not only referred to homosexuals but also heterosexual and bisexuals. I have come to ... that both were actually the same, but now I kno...

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... victimology primarily recognises victimisation as the product of unequal power relations, sexism, and other types of prejudice within the law and Criminal Justice System. The feminist approach to victimology is therefore concerned with combatting societal sexism, achieving gender equality, and campaigning for women's rights. (Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender ... over women. (Wilson, 2009) In addition to this, feminist victimology has proposed that the criminal justice system further victimises women. According to Smart, (1...

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... 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 &apos ... female, Just as there are some househo...

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... [are] committed against trans women and girls," and when they seek refuge in the police "22% of transgender people reported police harassment [and] bias-motivated assault by officers" (25). Beneath the introduction is a list of policy advances that the government has made, as well as needed policy changes, such as ending the Racial Profiling Act and implementing the Violence Against Women ... Act's nondiscrimination provisions.3 The author targets the directed audience by formatting their report in a clear and precise way, which is necessary because, with policy reform, it's import...

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... California, Santa Barbara, for example, states that "every member of the University community should be aware that the University is strongly opposed to sexual harassment and that such behavior is prohibited both by law and University policy" ("Policy"). The statement is completely gender neutral in that it does not limit sexual misdemeanors to males or females, but rather encompasses both genders ... prohibiting employment discrimination" ("Sexual"). The University of Maryland therefore incorporates federal law into their sexual harassment policy; by adding the Civil Rights Act to their ...

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... in a desperate attempt to compel his daughter 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 ... your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case." With this statement, Hermia demonstrates respect for authority by using the formal address of "your grace," but articulates clearly that she is a woman who will decide what she ...

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... depends on individual patriarchs controlling women in the private world of the home. The male patriarch in the household is both the oppressor and recipient of women's subordination. This strategy is direct - women are oppressed on a personal and individual basis by the individual patriarchs who share their lives. The segregationist strategy used in the public patriarchy actively excludes women from ... rigidly separate and unequal social roles based on gender (Ruehl, 1983). The patriarchal concepts of gender criticised by feminists are used to ascribe the roles that result in gender ineq...

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... early age we tend to identify with one or the other. But unlike biological and evolutionary psychologists , social constructivists believe that "gender" is not necessarily determined by our sex, rather it is a socially constructed set of ideas about what it is to be male or female and then taken on and acted upon in order to fully belong to that group which we naturally ... to be the case that boys are more rebellious and likely to reject authority then girls during school years making their education suffer, one reason for this put forward by social constructivists is the way males are...

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