... a rite of passage preparing young girls for womanhood and marriage. Often performed without anesthetic under septic conditions by lay practitioners with little or no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, female circumcision can cause death or permanent health problems as well as severe pain. Despite these grave risks, its practitioners look on it as an integral part of their cultural and ... challenged with meeting African women's health needs, as they are barraged with a debate about the ethics and politics of circumcision. There are significant medical sequelae and public health ram...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... fight for Sparta. Male infants were judged by height and size of body parts. The goal was to have the biggest male infants so that they would survive the military camp and also be able to fight in the military with no difficulties. Female infants were judged just as harshly ... because the Spartans believed that the bigger and better built a female infant was the better chance at reproducing and carrying a bigger and better Spartan male child ... there would be. The goal was to be able to have the strong genes passed down through generations, so that there would be long line of strong S...

• Word Count: 3109
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... genes. However, gender appears through the institution, actions, social norms, and expectation. It challenges the process of construction create gender to accomplish the society norm. Male and female dichotomy demonstrates through biological sex in beginning, gender label and gender display, transgender and then the social structure. These things support and promote how the gender become separating and ... are the result from natural selection such as male aggressiveness and female nurturance (Risman, 1998). Those behaviors are also stress infant and parents. All the parents' perspective...

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... between men and women is decreasing. The gap between men and women is getting smaller. Accordingly, it is reported that the rate of female participation in labor is gradually increasing, and some systems supporting women such as parental leave are becoming accepted to people. However, women still ... Japan is still behind. Japanese women still have to choose children or work. Role conflicts often happen to workingwomen who have small children especially infants and preschool kids. "When we are expected to play two conflicting roles of our two different statuses at the same time, we experi...

• Word Count: 1966
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... latent within the personality of the individual. As the illness seemed to be occuring more often in women than men, physicians of the times would connect it with "female hysteria." Female hysteria, as it was known back then, is an extremely unscientific classification today. It was known as the "signifier par excellence" that would color women as pathological ... deterministic to personality development. From that framework, it could be argued that an infant is born without a sense of self and that this understanding of self gradually develops via the infants interactions with its envir...

• Word Count: 2091
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate