... references in the whitish shawl-cum-halo of the left-hand figure, which might suggest the Virgin, especially if the figure is pregnant, and the ribs, not the rib-bone, which go, not from Adam to Eve, but from the more female figure to the more male one. But what does all this ... 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 contains no ...

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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 ... and the adventure of his jungle explorations infatuate Betty but her desire clashes with Harry's idealization that women belong in the home, "I need to go up the rivers and know you are sitting here thinking of me". Even though Betty respects Clive and tries to be what he w...

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... 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 ... t...

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... the 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 ... character, while the journey in She takes place on the surface of the female body and the main female character is an ugly and malevolent figure. "King Solomon's Mines" tells the story of a hunter named Quatermain who helps Captain Good and Sir Henry in search of Henry's lost ... refuse t...

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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 ... progressed, 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 represent...

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... 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, " ... to be with her. Mrs. Popov realizes the same thing, she realized that she actually liked him as well and she says "Why are you going? Wait-no, go!! Oh, how angry I am! Don't come too near, don't come too near-er-come-no nearer" (2074). She's conflicted, she seems to ...

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... matter 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 ... become a problem solver." Parents t...

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... 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 ... the viewer, thus making the thing more acceptable to the audience. Gender roles have been portrayed on television since the very beginning. If we go back to sitcoms from the 1950s such as "Leave it to Beaver," the traditional masculine role of breadwinner, and the traditional feminin...

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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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... 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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... 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 meets ... 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...

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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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... 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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... data was collated according to gender's attitudes and patterns for the use of mobile phones, converted to percentages, expressed as graphs and analyzed. Results Figure 1 shows the important factors of choosing mobile phone among ACL students for both male and female. As can be seen from the bar chart, ... rather than design (77 scores) and brand name (69 scores) as the highest scores of 92 while males extremely worried about price with 100 scores. Figure 2 illustrates the reasons to a new brand of mobile phones among ACL students. The chart identifies four reasons of changing: damage, los...

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... from 241 female and 286 male American psychology students, to produce a shortened version of the AWS. Items were selected for the short version by dividing the participants into quartiles on the basis of their total AWS scores for each sex separately. Twenty-five items which discriminated between the ... strongly disagree. To gain the attitude scores, the questions that were negative, for example, a women swearing sounds worst than a man swearing, remained the same figure, but the questions that were positive the answers changed to the opposite number E.G if the participant had chosen 5 s...

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... the detective's assistant, she possesses more of masculine qualities than feminine qualities. Since she works in an environment around men, she has a tendency to be more influenced by their activities and their ideas. Sam said to Effie, "Your a detective darling." Her voice seems to be monotone which shows her as a strong and an ... had killed her husband so that they could be together. Iva's role fits into the genre of female characters because of her femininity. She used her figure as a power tool and focused on her image to express the way she felt. Women in these cases were very dis...

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... for men and women in society; they provide a framework through which we can understand and experience our world. One particular gender code that is propagated by mass media is, as professor of English at XXX, Robert C.Nazar puts it, "Our culture is quite happy with a woman who is sexually ... are evident in all forms of media advertising, from television ads to cigarette box ads. As a result, our senses are constantly being bombarded by these ads to such an extent that even if a person were able to consciously shut out and dismiss the images within the ads, it ... woman's size correlat...

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People are surrounded by subliminal messages wherever they go, either through advertisements, television shows, movies, or toys. They often question their beauty, their intelligence, and for men their masculinity. Everyday ... muscles, buzzed short hair cuts, tattoos, and clothing apparel that only men would wear while they fight or partake in normal activities. The John Cena action figure, for example exemplifies him with enormous muscles, ripped up jean shorts, and a military style buzzed haircut. His ripped up clothing and hairstyle implies that ... not only does he portray manliness in th...

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... ruled these theories out. And if this were the case, then why is homosexuality present in different cultures? Some believed homosexuality was caused by a difference in brain structure. In 1991, Simon LeVay published research stating that sexual orientation may be the result of differing brain structures. ... , despite cultural constraints, " says Dennis Landis, a neurologist who studied brain structure at Case Western Reserve University. ( Williams, 1993) A woman by the name of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison criticized LeVay's theories and found several flaws in his experimental studies. Fir...

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... a result, these patients turn over all power to the nurses and doctors that take care of them, most notably Dr. Rivers who later becomes a father figure to most of them. While the goal of mental treatment in the hospital is to prepare these patients for war service once again, the therapy these patients ... father's place" (Barker, 145). As a result of this therapy, Sassoon feels loses all his manliness and becomes like a child figure in front of Rivers, he feels sad when abandoned by him because he was the only person he looked up to. Rivers turns out to be the only person in the hospit...

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... public his entire life. Truman is the object and center of "The Truman Show,"" a very popular show that is watched by everyone. A male character being the figure of center of attention contradicts Mulvey's idea that the male figure cannot bear the burden of objectification. Truman being placed as the center of gaze in "The Truman Show- challenges Mulvey in that it proves that ... vulnerable and feeble, indirectly gives Truman the sense of omnipotence and makes herself an object to the male sex. Just as Meryl represents the typical female figure of cinema, Christof represents the stereot...

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... the growing Empire. Many years later, author Linda Colley explored Elizabeth Marsh's life while researching for her book, Captives. Elizabeth Marsh is an unusual figure to study; she was not wealthy or known for her successes although she did travel immensely, "visiting and exploring settlements, towns and temples& ... of Elizabeth Marsh. From this point forward, Elizabeth Marsh was not only looked upon as a woman in world history but also as an important figure in the means of social history. Over the course of many years, the evolution of social history has become more apparent and focu...

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... Since there are only two women, it is apparent that men dominate the society of the time. The Prioress, a nun, is supposedly a religious figure, but her description has no mention of her holy devotion, and in fact implies that she has none. Chaucer's harsh criticism of the corruptness of ... the church institution and his anticlerical views are found in almost every portrait of a religious figure in the tales, signifying that immorality among the clergy was quite prevalent. The Wife of Bath is representative of the women of the lower class ... the reader that late medieval society had s...

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... for women's inadequacies as we might think, but the fear of their power. (62) When Chaucer takes Jean's old woman and turns her into a three-dimensional figure with a trade, we begin to see her as a real person. Her strength of personality enables her to be autonomous in a society and allows her to live ... women. There are two specific instances in Chaucer's life that deal with women and not in a positive way. The first, his marriage to Philippa, was thought by George Williams, in A New View of Chaucer, to be a favor to his friend John of Guant. William feels that she was the lover of Jo...

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