... 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 turn generate less ... than ten percent of that in total profits is utterly foolish and profoundly stupid. However, any logical member of the administration of the athletic department would realize that putting ...

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... 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 deal with paradox ... look past this initial reflection. In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror offers a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Qu...

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A deliciously gruesome re-telling of a good girl gone bad tale, Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment engages with 18th-century notions of female identity, sexuality, and criminality, using a subtle mixture of counter-arguments to successfully flip the early conventions on their heads. Through her (very appropriately named) heroine Violenta, Manley examines the lack of options and loss of power women of the 18th century faced in a unforgivingly ... : since I know it will be impossible for me to live after the loss of my honor" (146). Violenta reiterates the conventional belief of the time:...

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... beneficial, in the sense that I became more knowledgeable on what sexual orientation entails, and also a few related terms that will aid to expand my vocabulary. My personal definition of a few of the terms were as follows, homosexuals people who choose to develop sexual relationships with the same sex, heterosexual people who choose develop sexual relationships with the opposite sex and bisexual ... is most often attached to homosexuality and homosexuals which most often results in gay bashing. I discovered that nonconformity is the behavior or gender expression that does not match gen...

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... as gay1. Since information about the transgender community is not as commonly known, it is imperative to make sure that there is 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 ... against transgender people. Yet, when it comes to reports on health care, the writing style differs because the audience includes both the general public and higher-up officials. Through collection of data, the ...

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... published in 2010, highlighted the "abysmal" treatment that rape victims were subjected to as they went through the criminal justice process. (BBC, 2010) Subsequently, it outlined key recommendations of new practices and policies to be implemented within the criminal justice system, which now allow rape victims to be treated much more respectfully than in the past. Despite this, female ... (Davies, et al., 2003, pp. 3) The problem with this however, is that criminal statistics provided by the government departments and victimisation surveys do not accurately portray the 'dark figur...

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... the literature (White, 2007). Where there is mass civil protest such as was seen in London in 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and other intersectional socio-political categories come to the fore. There is often an opposition between those who riot and those ... fall through the gap' in analyses which racialise the protest movement in particular demographic ways. In the case of London, young black males were at the centre of some of the racialised models of the rioting process; other groups, such as Asians, Eastern Europeans and so on were largely ignored. The ....

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... that gender segregation still exist but symmetrical families are developing much more joint conjugal roles and that there has been a large amount of equality between men and women. Young and Willmott also suggest that symmetrical families are opposite but sill similar stating that the husband ... 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 ... be...

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... women characters and the need for an outside influence to help them solve their problems. In Twelfth Night, the reader meets two female characters who are different from Hermia in many ways, but who are affected similarly by the constrictions of the dominant social norms that determined how women should act and what they could reasonably expect from life. First, it is ... norms and conventions by failing to observe the appropriate period of mourning for her deceased husband, the King of Denmark. Interestingly, Gertrude herself has little to say in defense or explanation of her decision,...

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... 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 and any variations of such with the phrase "every member." Furthermore, the University clearly states that their policies coincide with state law, which serves as a foundation for most university guidelines. Similarly, Northwestern ... fact that "sexual harassment is offensive sexual behavior by persons in authority towards those who can be benefited or injured in an official capacity. Therefore, it is primar...

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... differences in aggression? Throughout psychological research, there has been little disagreement that there are obvious differences between the sexes in regards to aggressive behaviour. Statistics comparing FBI reports of crime rates between males and females in 1981, show not only that significantly more men were arrested for criminal offences than women, but that the crimes committed by women ... contention that sex differences in aggression can be found early in life, at a time before social pressures may have "shaped" behaviour. As well as innate characteristics, sex hormones have b...

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... her, the men at the bar collect money for bail, reasoning that, "A few lads just acted as nature intended." This casual dismissal of this sexual assault is similar to the commonly used idiom, "Boys will be boys," revealing how this behaviour has been accepted by society ... blame the victim, to shame them into silence. During the time that Lizzie presses charges, she is confronted by the mothers of the boys with "just because a few little sluts in this town get what they deserve." The use of slurs within this scene demonstrates how the blame for the ... our society. This also displays h...

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... individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to challenge many of the patriarchal views long held by Australian society. Many women began to campaign for equality and the freedom to be seen as individuals. Throughout ... 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 how destructive patriarchy was to women's rights in the 60's. The contemporary feminist reader, looking from 2002 would consider this...

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... are issues significantly 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 ... transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. Bender-Baird's writing aims to expose these gender inju...

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... humans commit to one another , this they believe stems from the development of the human infants brain which was constrained during the time spent in the mother's womb due to shape of the pelvic girdle of the now upright human, this meant that the brain carried on developing ... constructivists believe when we construct our world, the issue of gender is the most prominent factor when constructing our own and others" identities. As social beings we derive a sense of identity through belonging to groups, the basic two groups of humans are male and female and so from a ... very early age we...

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... term gender, there are not generally referring to biological differences between men and women, but to set of culturally defined sex characteristics associated with masculinity and femininity. Masculinity, first, stands for societies in which ... of each pair of characteristics is typically associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. Hence, these two senses become different views which vary across cultures that in most cultures gender differences signify relationships of inequality and the domination of women by men. In term of ... with this view; that is, "democracy" [from t...

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... , contemporary male peer groups and/or male literary forefathers, they could learn and work from, only served to reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. Wordsworth, who was ... generally viewed with skepticism in contemporary society as true literary artists. Writing was still considered a male-dominant art form and in general women ...

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... (Haug, 1998). Haug (1998) cites research from East Germany which allows her to calculate that women do 4 hours and 41 minutes of domestic labour against men's 2 hours 38 minutes. Men split their extra two hours between leisure time and paid employment. She asks if it is a realistic possibility that patriarchy could be so completely and comprehensively asserted in as little as ... two hours a day. Haug does not answer this question (perhaps it is rhetorical) but I think that Walby's (1990) theory of patriarchy is so powerful because it can reveal ... and social framework that prevails. I...

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