... what their gender is. What makes them seem to have different abilities is the social construction itself. "Primate Studies and Sex Differences", an essay by Sally Linton, tells about her disagreement of the experience done on primates, the "animals that are most like human beings", to reveal the truth ... that some behaviors reflects innate differences between genders. She defends her opinion by giving the fact that "the female primates who did not receive the proper socialization make very poor mothers." This alone can already tell the fact ... "It is not natural (instinctive) for [the...

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... many events of nearly every character in this story. This period in history was indeed marked with a peculiar fascination for the opposite sex. By briefly examining the role of women during the Victorian Era when these historical events take place, we can better understand how it's importance ties in ... , the term nymphomania was applied to degrees of sexual expression which would be considered quite normal today" (Rosenberg 10). It was believed that sex by nature, was not very natural at all, and that lower-class servants were the only ones to break norms. "Servants represented an intr...

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The Boor by Anton Chekhov has many themes in it pertaining faithfulness and emotions, because of this it relates to real life and how this could actually happen in a more modern setting. The ... 't pay him. He then continues saying, "Woman's logic! That's why I never liked to talk to women, and why I dislike doing it now" (1945). He continues with his misogyny by basically saying that women are illogical. He'd rather converse with men than women because women don't make sense. He then speaks about how women love; he angrily says, "May ... learn to like them despite the fact that they aren't ...

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... and relay this information to the audience. The more narrowed scope of this essay is to inform the audience of how gender roles are taught and perpetrated by the media as a whole, but on television in particular, but also from a more sociological aspect or viewpoint. Thoughts and opinions are expressed, most ... aired on television, not only would this have been pulled immediately from circulation, he would most certainly have been shunned from mainstream media, and by most likely his inner circle of friends and family as well as his business associates during this time period when it wa...

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... products of the culture; we can say that they are socially constructed. We can relate this statement with the novel Written on the Body written by Jeanette Winterson. The novel deals with identity, sexuality and discourse. The author does not focus on an issue to find an answer in her novel ... their gender identity. As Butler argues, "Gender is constructed (...)" (8) and this is exactly what Winterson wants to deconstruct. The story is told by a genderless and outsider narrator, since we do not know any trait of him or her, and also we cannot enter the issue of cliches of gender ... her...

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... questioned in the text are, nationalism, femininity, sexual morality and social standing. In the beginning of the book, we see that the women feel bonded by nationalism. This nationalism has brought them to the front line as ambulance drivers during World War I. Nellie "Smithy " Smith, the main character of this novel ... is sending the younger generation to war, due to what she feels is pride-lead stupidity. World War I was a severe and terrible war, marked by young men dying in some of the most horrible conditions ever possibly imagined. These women, being ambulance drivers, saw this ...

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... and physically dominant. He has very big arms, hands larger than the wives whole head, and "powerful knuckles and the veins engorged by the pressure on his arm" (Meyer 164). By describing him such as big and powerful with hair on his hands and arms, the author portrays him as an animal of sorts ... hand is described "offended, reared back and tensed up in the shape of a crab and waited, ready for battle" (Meyer 164). When she is disgusted by this behavior, the hand becomes defensive. This behavior of the hand is a metaphor for the roles in relationships. The male is often abusive or contr...

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... Madrid, Spain. The novel follows an idolized monk, Ambrosio, who struggles between maintaining his monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions after he is tempted by a young woman. The characters must navigate through black magic, incest, rape, and the supernatural as they fall from grace and are faced with ... still dear to [her] and [she] dreads to lose it" so she hangs onto her will power and survives until she is rescued by Don Lorenzo (319). This strength and power Agnes has come from the empowerment that obtaining and realizing her sexuality has given her. Although Agnes has ....

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... female characters in Haggard's novels turn out to be the very opposite of passive. They are a threat to the masculinity of the male characters by showing their power, beauty, or cruelty. I argue that the stories do not follow the pattern of male penetrating and gaining dominance over a passive ... centres on a Cambridge scholar, Holly, and his adoptive son Leo. Contrary to Holly, Leo is very interested in meeting women who are astonished by his beauty. One day, Leo is unexpectedly placed in Holly's custody along with a box with secret documents which concern tracing of his ancestors ... r...

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... women. Kapshaw himself had addressed Wishkob as grandmother" (64). There was the bwaanug who raced the Frenchman who was "a woman-man called a winkte by the Bwaanag" (153). The Ojibwe saw masculinity in a woman as desirable. Mashkiigikwe was one of Kapshaw's wives, and is hunting when Father Damien ... makes the reader uncomfortable. We do not often think of having a sexual relationship with God, but Agnes does. This border is also blurred by her relationship with Father Wekkle. Father Damien/ Agnes's relationship with Father Wekkle was that of colleagues at first, but then turned sexu...

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... face of Roderigo's urgent persuasions, Violenta claims to be "a maidwho knows the the true estimation of virtue" and counters his dramatic claims of death by simply stating, "You very eloquently tell me you shall die if I continue unkind; but I very plainly tell your Lordship, that I must perish ... was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper" woman. The follow through of this exchange was considered to be ....

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... butch, and lesbians from their organizations. Jess becomes friends with members of other oppressed groups, including and not limiting drag queens and Black students in her high school. By calling attention to their amicable coexistence, I find that Feinberg is undoubtedly trying to interrogate the relationship between racism, sexism and revolutionary class consciousness. Like gender and sexuality, ... the butch and the femme, and then examines the limited possibilities for resistance outside a supportive community. Even as Jess struggles alone to construct a self amid a social milieu domi...

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... is confident and assertive while the full-face view suggests a retiring sadness; the roundness of the body, which suggests pregnancy, is contradicted by the thick, harsh straightness of the figure's back. In the right-hand figure the two breasts have contrasting green patterns and at the ... painting which ranks with the reclining Venuses of Georgiana and Titian and Velasquez. In "The Mirror" Picasso uses these thick, overpowering lines to convey, by contrast with the lightness of the flesh, a female body aflame with sensuousness. Yet the word "aflame" will not describe it. The painting...

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... The Crying Game" femininity and the gender of characters play a large part when analysing the narrative. The quote originates from "Cloud Nine", which is said by the character Betty. The female gendered characters relate to this quote at the start of the storyline of both pieces and at the closing of the narrative ... but is perplexed when she disrobes her manhood. When her true sex is exposed he feels sick with disgust. He feels his sexual identity is at risk by having feelings for Dil who is really a male and he continuously repeats that she " should have stayed a girl", or " Kind of l...

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... feel second rate and there is a need to fill that void. In The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee Younger feels just that. Walter Lee's desperate dream of the liquor store is fueled by his need to feel a sense of honor, ideal manhood and resisting regression to his mother. Walter desperately wants to buy ... chauffeur and servant to owner and man. This is a goal in his own mind, but will take him over the wall of being a man. The Boy Scouts organization teaches young boys to be an "independent man". Things had to be made masculine or else there was doubt in its t...

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... the use of abortion in regards to female babies (China From the Inside). According to Chinese law, a couple is permitted one child, hence why most families will abort baby girls. Couples will go in as early as 5 months and receive an ultrasound to see if their baby is a boy or girl. If it is a girl, an abortion will regularly follow. The mindset ... behind this is that if the parents have a boy, he will take care of them when he gets older and has a job, a baby girl will not be able to support the family in their old age. And this regular occurrence of abortion is not just restricted to...

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... Genetics and Society) Couples now a days want to select the gender of the baby. It can be because they are from a certain cultures and religion and they want to have a boy, and or they have two or three boys and want to make sure that the next newborn is a girl. Woman ages 35 and over, as well as for single woman ... isn't up to the mothers and fathers to determine the gender. Also it's been said, "In countries such as China and India, the cultural preference for boys is well-documented and parents for years have been using ultrasound and amniocentesis, followed by abortion to avoid giv...

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... now thriving 'tiger economies' due to rising labour costs. The majority of companies shifted to Mainland China, with vast labour force and the attractive tax incentives introduced by Shenzhen. The factories in these areas still continue to rely heavily on young rural women or working girls ... that move from rural areas to urban industrial centres (Lee, 1998). These factories employ millions of women and ... are doing similar work to that done in the UK factories that Glucksmann and Cavendish refer to. However, the conditions in these factories in mainland China are far worse for l...

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... This self-construction of one's own being would be the ideal characterisation in our society, but unfortunately, it represents a false belief. Masculinity has certain characteristics assigned to it by our culture. Throughout this paper I will explore the many facets of masculinity and demonstrate how certain beliefs pertaining to it are perpetuated in our society. I will also uncover ... and not 'sissy women's work' such as cooking and cleaning, etc. Other factors help to perpetuate certain standards expected of men and boys (Stearns 1990). The violence boy's witness on television furth...

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... leotards, they are similar to Angelina Jolie's black attire in the fact that both wardrobes sexualize the characters and accentuate their curves. Although differently, Lorelei Lee and Lara Croft exude sex appeal in what they wear, how they act, their facial expressions, and even how they walk. Their desirable figures ... If you are wealthy, you are a snob. If you are a brunette, you are boring. If you are blonde, you are stupid. Marilyn Monroe's character, Lorelei Lee, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), is the epitome of the "dumb blonde" stereotype, while her brunette co-star, Jane Rus...

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... having a very overbearing manipulative attitude that is not in cinjuntion with the typical role of the submissive traits of a woman. In actuaity Song Ling wants to make women look bad. By dressing up as a woman he can give them these personality traits therefore giving a bad name to women in general. The tables turn once again, though, with Galllimard's final transformation into ... wives have certain rights and privileges. Moon Orchid, although appearing weaker than her overbearing sister, takes a very Americanized approach at the situation. She feels that since he supported her in Chi...

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... ., and not 'sissy women's work' such as cooking and cleaning, etc. Other factors help to perpetuate certain standards expected of men and boys (Stearns 1990). The violence boy's witness on television further legitimates this belief. Katz explains that advertising imagery equates masculinity with violence. For boys this means aggression is instrumental in that it enables them to establish ... their masculinity (Katz 1995). Lee Bowker researched the influence advertisements have on youth. He asserts that toy advertisements featuring only boys depict aggressive behavior. Strangely, the aggr...

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... understanding of the Confucian ideologies, through the  information  and facts in reading that I learned from class as well as elsewhere as I grew up in China watching and reading television and paper documentaries regarding this  important piece of history for not only the Chinese but all mankind civilizations as a whole. I ... was born in 1500 AD, of the Ming dynasty when Confucian ideologies were still being followed by the Chinese people and used as teaching and state governing doctrines. I grew up in a fisherman's home in rural area outside of Beijing, which was ... most superior...

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... only in sports, but also in "Fiero," "The Asheville Reader," and my personal experiences as a woman and an athlete. Women have been suppressed by men for centuries, and the paradigms and stereotypes that developed in the past and originated with the fall of Eve have lingered and are still present ... lack thereof. At the last Women's Soccer World Cup, U.S.A. player Brandi Chastain scored the winning goal for the United States in a penalty shootout against China. She dropped to her knees and tore off her shirt, a classic celebration in men's soccer. The picture of her in a black sports br...

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... out on opportunities to mingle with the opposite sex. Interactions between single sex high schools are common and really develop students' social and communicational skills. It is a gradual process but by the time one graduates from high school they are ready to be released into the real world, especially if choosing to attend a coed University. Through high school years there are ... , she never had to wear make up to school and it gave her the chance to feel much smarter in the classroom. My male cousin also went to an all boy school and he said he prefers the teaching styles of his hi...

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