... equality in our schools, this type of equality is based on each individual's understanding in what the differences are in a boy and girl's experiences in education and the influence on expectations and behaviors of both genders. Teachers feel they are providing a quality education, but may not realize they are transferring their thoughts of what they students should be accomplishing based on ... gender. Great differences can be found in gender communication in our personal, social, academic and family lives on regular basis. Every culture has its rules and norms for each gender in commun...

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... (Harvard website). Chaucer's vehicle to maneuver between the gender roles was the WB caricature. Through means of reversal, Chaucer leads his main female character down the road of maleness. I will argue that by using this technique Chaucer is able to create a perceptive critic of misogynist orthodoxy who ... convince while traveling the road to Canterbury (Biebel 64). How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. She is also described as an efficient business person, not afraid to verbalize her desires, and she laughs and jokes in [m...

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... "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. She laments the way ... subtext. She subtly bemoans these tendencies and offers hopes to "[transcend] outworn or oppressive forms, or [dare] to break with normal pleasurable expectations in order to conceive a new language of desire."4 This implies that an awareness of the way pleasure and beauty elicits a scopophilic gaze .....

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