... (Ehnnen 318), not only in the plays as Shakespeare wrote them, but in the ways they have been performed and interpreted in the centuries that have followed. Shakespeare, by reflecting upon the limitations and opportunities available to all people in the time during which he lived and wrote, was able to create casts of characters who were authentic in their search for personal power and meaning, as ... well as authentic in their struggles to achieve ... such power and purpose. The bard did not, ... ...

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... is still a fair division of roles and contribution around the house. Another aspect of the Symmetrical family is that the role of the 'breadwinner' is more shared that laid upon the male, as there are more families with both spouses in paid-employment than in the past. Young and Willmott think these changes have occurred due to the vast rise in feminism, and that this has had a major impact ... 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 battl...

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... these existing policies to become more 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 Violence" gives a brief intro into ... the problem at hand, noting that in the LGBT community "nearly 3 out of 4 of lethal crimes [are] committed aga...

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... is rarely or never to be regained." Perhaps somewhat astonishingly, Violenta is not adverse to Count Roderigo's suit; rather, her objections lie in the Count's intentions of having Violenta trade in her virginal status, in effect, her honor, without offering the proper recompense - marriage - in return. One could say then, while Violenta is not making her virtue available for sale, she certainly is waiting for a society ... reputation be considered an accurate judge of character? Despite appearances, Violenta has not been dishonored, her only fault has been her meek obedience of her husb...

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... of contemporary women. These are only but a few of the first woman writers who, through their strong will and courageous stands against the male oriented culture of the day, eventually formed the tradition of women writers that exists today. In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen hundreds came the strength of the few established female literary writers who pooled their efforts to ... the lesser of the two sexes and expected to maintain the domiciliary roll in society but this view would begin to change in the mid to later part of the nineteenth century. In order for women ...

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... 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" . Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not only weaves a subtle yet extravagant tapestry of blatant ... body is inverted, "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the rest, but that the eyes were in the hands, the tongue and mouth beneath in the ...

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... demonstrates the complex inter-space between the simple dichotomy formed in the discourse on the riots. Rather than slipping through this gap, in the case of London and Ferguson such intersectional figures often became highly important to the events and the discourse which surrounded them. This kind of discourse demonstrated the central opposition in both the London and the Ferguson cases: namely, that between the forces of the establishment (representing order) and the force of the rioters ... to fulfil their preconceived gendered role (Vosko, MacDonald and Campbell, 2009). This inters...

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... and 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 person who choose to be in intimate relationships with both. From this unit I learnt that ... family life and express affection and emotion, they also play the permissive and dominant...

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... serviceable to the oppressed transgenders. In the illustration of these laws, which were only enacted within the American borders, signify that even in the most advanced and educated countries, people who do not conform with gender norms are severely susceptible to hate, exclusion, and biased persecution. The evolution of conflicts on gender demarcation created organizations that advocated for the civil liberties of transgenders in terms of employment and personal rights ... for underprivileged transgenders to make a living. This form of covert discrimination greatly affected not only t...

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... , it will then go on to compare and contrast these views and look at the relationships between them. The four main perspectives are: The Biological perspective, the evolutionary perspective, the social constructionist perspective and the psychoanalytic perspective. In order to answer the question what is an individuals" sex and gender?, the biological perspective looks at an individual's anatomy and any other biological differences that are ... humans commit to one another , this they believe stems from the development of the human infants brain which was constrained during the time spen...

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... segregationist. The exclusionary strategy in the private arena is based on household production. Application of this strategy in the domestic sphere 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 the public arena using various struct...

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... manifestation of male dominance. Composition has also been used within this scene by placing the boys in intimidating positions to demonstrate the power they hold in the situation and to represent the power that they hold in our society. A frequent occurrence within the film, which is shown in this scene, is women being encircled by men in large groups, working together like packs to gain power over women. This animalistic ... that this cultural assumption is passed down through generations because of the dominant male discourse allowing for this assertion of power to occur. In the film...

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... attempt, unfounded and devoid of reasoning, of Title 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 ... it is very rare that a professional female athlete makes a donation upwards of a million dollars to her former college. In conclusion, the...

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... , at a time before social pressures may have "shaped" behaviour. As well as innate characteristics, sex hormones have been found to play a fundamental part in the probability of aggression. If a girl is exposed to high levels of a male hormone while still a developing foetus, she will not only develop masculine genitalia, but she will also be inclined ... towards more masculine behaviour throughout childhood (Erhardt and Baker 1972). One hormone studied was progestin, which recent studies have shown to have a masculinizing effect on the foetus while still developing. Children, who had be...

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... women to overcome societies long held views of patriarchy. The feminist reader in today's society may think the view in the extract from the expository text is a typical example of how men put women down and oppressed women's rights in the sixties. 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 expository text an outrage ... work on making...

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... of victimology as a whole. This is because, it has uncovered phenomena which was previously hidden and virtually non-existent in the eyes of society. In doing so, it has brought gender to the forefront of society's interactions, in the sense that it has increased society's understanding and awareness of female victimisation just as much as male victimisation, if not more. Contrastingly, ... official, and so are not included in the statistics despite the fact that they have actually occurred. The fact that so many crimes are not included means that the official statistics represent crime...

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... . 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 the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood ... . In liberal discourse, a corresponding dualism between women and men justifies the attribution of different social status...

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... of Maryland follows suit with the University of California and Northwestern University in establishing policies that include 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 car...

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