... 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 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 by our society ... and that rape has become the natural expression for male dominance because as a c...

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... 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 ... are joint and that are segregated; there are few familie...

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... inclusive and create a safer and more aware environment. The language used in reports differs due to the audience; for example, in reports directed towards the government in the hope for policy reform, the language and formatting is precise and in bullet points, highlighting the key information in a clear way. In the report by the NCTE, a chapter called "Reforming Police and Ending Anti ... 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 po...

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... neighbors, a rich man's whore, "a prey to shame and dishonesty". To add to her troubles, her husband and lawful master, growing increasingly weary of his wife and easily influenced by the insidious rumors running rampant, "forgot he had married her; and hearing so many people talk of her as a mistress he kept, he imagined it was so"(153) and ... was shed to wash away my stain". She tells her story to the justices, "without either rage or passion" and moved by her modesty and its betrayal, they publicly denounce Roderigo. The narrator makes the brief, yet caustic remark that "Notwithstan...

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... 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 ... in total profits is utterly foolish and profoundly stupid. However, any logical member of the administration of the athletic department would realize that putting their mone...

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... 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 lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying ... transgenders find it hard to find healthcare professionals who could help them. Even worse, most medical professionals lack the education and s...

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... 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 who oppose the rioters, between the establishment (represented by the government, the police) and those who protest against it. In London in 2011 thousands of people protested, rioted and engaged in ... 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 genderin...

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... bisexuals. I have come to critically analyze and realize that sexual orientation is most often something felt from inside where one develops erotic attraction to the other sex, same sex or both. I learnt that sexual orientation can be classified into three major categories which arre based on erotic attraction which ... -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 attracted to while gender identity refers...

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... 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 were typically more aggressive than girls across ... circumstance, if both sexes are forced to accept conciliatory behaviour, women's blood pressure reduces, while men's increases further. The findings suggest that it is in a man's dispositio...

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... 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 politics, there are also the greatly different aspects between masculinity and femininity. At this point, it could be briefly said that these two genders steadily represent and argue ... of IPE as well as much of feminist analysis of economic globalization have examined hierarchical structures of class, race, and gender. It could be said that an important goal for many feminists is ...

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... explanation of the relationship between masculine power and female victimisation by drawing upon research which shows that traditional gender norms reinforce and reward male dominance over women. (Wilson, 2009) In addition to this, feminist victimology has proposed that the criminal justice system further victimises women. According to Smart, (1989) in a research analysis of the criminal justice system ... , both radical and social feminists observed that the law ... new awareness of significant issues within society which were previously ignored, such as crime that takes place privatel...

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... in societies concepts of how women should behave in comparison to the entrenched system of patriarchy that dominated Australian Anglo-Saxon society up to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women's movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to ... on making their marriages a success, whilst abdicating men of all responsibility, in 1960's society. This "How to have a successful marriage" formula eagerly taken up by the women o...

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... to both sexes; society, however, has preconceptions that such acts only occur to females. Universities share this opinion to a certain extent, as evidenced by sections of their policies. However, most of university regulations are gender neutral due to the growing interest concerning gender inequality and sexual misbehavior. In addition to their own regulations, a majority of university policies also include state and federal ... that "sexual harassment is an illegal form of sex discrimination. It is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the federal law p...

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... 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 born to a wealthy family ... Virginia Woolf, better known to her readers as Virginia Woolf, also know to occasionally write under the pen name Stephen (if Woolf had been a man, s...

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... and practical expediency" . Elizabeth further distended gender boundaries by frequently referring to herself in male pronouns as well as female. The concept of the body politic and redefining gender in the context of possessing two bodies, one male, the other female are inextricably entwined in The Old Arcadia. The Old Arcadia, through a series of surrogacies demonstrates the ideal of the body politic transferred from male to female, in similar ... of her shape" that gives her opportunity to speak. The delivery she makes could not have been achieved by someone who appeared to be male, y...

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... it is not frowned upon as it would be for a women, are they just playing out a part given to them and expected of them by society and culture? (Dunbar et al,199) This would be the reason given by social constructivists , who look for answers about male and female identities as stemming from an individuals particular culture, they believe that all we believe ... nature may not just be natural behaviours but also in fact constructed within our cultures through language , and changes depending on our histories and by social contexts. Social constructivists believe when we construct our wor...

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... 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 ... alienation from her beloved son all suggest that Gertrude was a bold and brave woman who was strong enough to challenge social norms by rejecting them altogether. It is not necessary to judge Ger...

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... 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 women were oppressed by patriarchal structures. Equal status for women of all races, classes, sexualities and ... a hierarchical gender order, feminist theoretical concepts of patriarchy are able to explain and challenge gender inequality and the gendered division of labor in the ...

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