... parts of these positions were being targeted and modeled. Several policeman sets contained at least one firearm, a nightstick, and extra bullets. The military oriented toys were also among the most violent. There were numerous camouflage sets with hand grenades, knifes, bazookas, and guns. The western cowboy sets for boys contained such items as a holster and guns, spurs, and a mask. Interesting enough, the western ... cowgirl set contained none of these items and consisted of only a shirt and hat. Although nearly impossible, one could find nonviolent gifts for young males. The second ...

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... looked like they were typical toys that boys have been playing with for generations. Some of them were action figures, nerf guns, legos, male Disney character stuffed animals, footballs, toy airplanes, and numerous building sets. The girl's side of the store on the other hand looked completely different. It was much prettier then ... 's fault because most of the time they will give their child gender-stereotyped toys to play with. They don't let the children go to the store and wonder around for themselves. They seclude them to their gender based areas. Since they start out at such a you...

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... by-product of one's sex. Nevertheless, women's literature tends to lend a much more prominent distinction of gender through the structure of poetry. Female writers such as Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, and Elizabeth Bowen utilize a poetic license in a gallivant manner to illustrate a story as it unfolds to them. In her composition "Ada"", Gertrude Stein uses a specific structure to symbolize a virgin thought ... a letter of nostalgic inconvenience by a man from her forgotten past. The woman is perplexed by the letter and begins to pace back and forth in her mind about its origin and ...

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... of living in a society in which women were subordinate to their husbands. This paper will examine how Chopin reveals this theme through setting, imagery, symbolism, and irony. Chopin is able to illustrate the small world Louise lived in by having the entire setting take place in one room. After Louise hears the news ... of her husband's death, she retreats to her room and "would have no one follow her" (635). This indicates that she had only one place to which she could go to be alone. ... the window at the "tops of the trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life" (Chopin 635)...

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... women's discrimination. This makes her a feminist. Antigone is motivated by the desire to bury her brother. At the same time she protests against unjust and tyrannical governments. However, nowhere does she make reference to a desire for more equality amongst the sexes, let alone a demonstration of those values that would ... broad injustices of men against women. Medea refers constantly to her womanhood and its "wretchedness- (229): "A woman's weak and timid in most matters; The noise of war, the look of steel, makes her a coward. But touch her right in marriage, and there's no bloodier ...

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... be used by all in the household. The traditional role of the woman was to stay home, take care of the children, clean the house, and cook. Because society has always associated money with power, the person bringing home the money had the power. The man often makes the final decision ... on all household matters because he has the money. The workplace is another place where men and women are not equal. The most obvious sign starts at the top. Look at the CEO of the corporation. The majority of CEOs are men. ... as bitches by men. For women to be well liked in the work place, they have to...

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... types of dolls instead of different types of girl toys. The Packaging of the toys in the girls section were massively decorated with flowers and glittery things. This is apparently to captivate the little girls because since the whole lane is pink the toy's packaging must shine in the ... diversity in their toys than the girls, they had: guns, planes, dinosaurs, guitars, sports, helicopters, trains, construction tools and they had numerous types of cars including racecars, police cars and trucks. I noticed that all of the boys toys had dominant poses, angry faces and on the boxes of the ...

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... take "the path of least resistance" and fought against those who wanted to keep her quiet. In conjunction with African American women, Chicana women have also been fighting for their right to speak out in their culture. In the poem by Bernice Zamora, "Notes from a Chicana "Coed"", Zamora ... discusses how her husband wants her to "write (poems) about social reality, about "the gringo who oppresses you, Babe"" instead of her struggles within her culture and with the men within her culture (Zamora 131). ... was not supported by the Chicano members (Gonzales 215). "It seemed that they were...

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... we"ll say that art must be assigned to it" (454c). Plato admits that, on the whole, "woman is weaker than man," although Glaucon notes that "many women are better than many men in many things" (455e, 455d). Under the Platonic system, women are permitted to develop as musicians, ... including housing. Sexual interaction is to be governed by the rulers (458). The best men are made to procreate with the best women, and vice versa. The children of the elite citizens are tended to by government workers, rather than by their own parents; hence the disestablishment of ... this measure of gender...

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... thought. The two models' femininity and masculinity is established immediately in this one frame. As Sut Jhally, a member of the Media Education Foundation, notes, "So while women drift, men anchor and protect"" (Jhally 11). This domineering cultural implication of masculinity and femininity has enveloped and morphed peoples' ideas about gender identity and the manifestation of their masculine and feminine miens. Pandering heterosexism and the male perspective, the two ... different messages sent to male and female viewers constructs a fantastical allure assuming that the audience ... ...

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... in his mothers clothing. The clothing choices and accessories promote their identities as being female. The high heels, dresses, and skirts are articles of clothing that females are supposed to wear. According to the class notes on September 19, 2003, "gender is something you do." Fashion and culture go hand in hand. Fashion can ... was just as revealing as those of the drag queens. Some of the audience members were afraid to partake in the activities. Some were quiet and reserved. The drag queens, as mentioned earlier, were very sexual in their actions. It may be said that many of them...

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... tour of places in Vietnam that are important to his family's history. In doing so, he weaves together a history of his family's sojourn to the U.S., their subsequent experiences in America and his reflections on returning to Vietnam as an Americanized Vietnamese. As a result, the book provides an interesting overview not only of the refugee experience, but the challenges that Asian Americans ... their feelings toward the countries of their ethnic origin. The book also touches on the effects of American foreign policy on Vietnamese culture today and most strikingly, issues of sexual orie...

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... occupied with the question of him being a homosexual. Laura Reynolds, the wife of the Headmaster, is described as lonesome because of her first husband's death and Bill neglecting her needs as his wife. Laura tires to fill this void by nurturing Tom. She tells Tom, "He was killed being conspicuously brave . ... You"re very like him," (Anderson 38). Laura tells this to Tom because she sees a lot of similarities between Tom and her first husband. Another desolate character in this play is Bill Reynolds himself because of his concealed sexuality. Bill is afraid to come "out of the ... tha...

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... to share the introspective look that women have of themselves in the society. In this exercise, three stories namely The sacrificial egg, A Mad Mans Diary and Storm in a Teacup will be analyzed with respect to their depiction of women. In the first story A Sacrificial Egg, the story is about a town that ... owes its wealth, success and growth to its position as a trade center where merchants from a host of neighboring communities come to exchange their commodities. The villagers however have a belief ... place in their household following the demise of his sister. What this shows is th...

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... from many other plays of the time because it is the first to have a female as a protagonist. Not only is this character a female, but someone who is strong, intelligent, moral, and brave. This provides a clue as to Sophocles' views on this topic of women. Sophocles demonstrates an affinity for feminist values in his play Antigone, which portrays its female characters as ... more motivated, morally upright, and braver than their male counterparts. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, challenges the order of Creon, King of Thebes. She is convinced that burial rights are unwritten rules of the G...

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... In many ways, she is not respected as a human being. In Trifles, Mr. Wright does not even acknowledge his wife's existence, except, most likely, for cooking, cleaning, and marital relations. The husbands are cold, boring people, who act very sexist towards their wives. In this time period, men act as though the women should not know what is ... going on. One example is in Trifles, where the sheriff's wife and Mrs. Hale find out the real reason for the murder, but they hide it. They use this as a way to prove to the men that they can ... figure things out and do not need their help to do...

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... . The sorting process that begins with the family is reinforced when the child is exposed to other aspects of society. Television, for example, portrays twice as many men as women; and the men statistically have higher status positions that women. The more television a person watches, the more they will feed into the belief systems that fuel the show. Literature is a very ... engaging topic in the issue of gender socialization. Starting as early as children books, like Treasure Island and the Secret Garden, books convey many messages that are commonplace in modern society. "Like a Windin...

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... America receive a better education than women in Rome. This is important because with education you can earn more money. It gives them more choices and freedom. Even though both Roman women and American women are expected to run a household, American women can get a job to earn more money or to pursue a career. Roman women ... women in America can. Women today can also be elected to any political office, giving them more power to influence the country. Women in Rome spun and wove their clothing by hand while women in America usually buy their machine-made clothing at stores. This allows ...

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... completely change our mind just because we get so much influenced by our surroundings. Cultural influence, social expectation, plays a huge role in people's growth and development. Now a day's television medium also plays a very important role when it comes to educate general public, because this medium is the easiest way ... we can put our point of views about anything and everything in front of everyone plays biggest role in influence big mass of people. We read many articles about gender inequalities in which because ... just used as source which gives them son. Like I said media pla...

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... this primary text, written by the speechwriter Lysias (c.440-380B.C.E.), one can reach a decent understanding of the gender roles within the Athenian society and the aspects of domestic life and public justice in ancient Athens. It is a testimony of a man, who claims to have brought just to the society by killing his ... danger of loosing life, property, everything, because I have obeyed the laws of the State". From this statement one can understand that he knew the law, and that it states that a an adulterer may be put to death by the man who catches him seducing another man's wife. A va...

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... products in popular culture today. Images that are used in advertising often set the standard which society feels it must live up to. Advertisements show what the ideal image is, and further tell how to obtain it. It is the advertisers who have the power to promote positive or negative images. Most of the roles portrayed by women in advertisements tend ... to be a negative, and subservient image. This presents an itony since it is these negative images which have been most successful in selling products. Women are sometimes placed in an inferior role which can ... be characterized by h...

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... life either in her home as a child or in the work place. I understand completely the thoughts and ideas that she gives yet I disagree with almost every thing she says. Times have changed since 1977 and even though women were treated unfairly during those times, I feel this is a poor piece of writing ... for today's youth to read simply because women play many masculine roles and have had participated in activities that were created or intended for men. I am a nurse major and intend to become a nurse, so am I a feminine person because I am going to be a nurse or a "medic ... ?" Women hav...

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... well as that heterosexuality does not fragment from homosexuality but that sexual preference is developed by an individual's personal life experience, and biology. Bems theory of homosexuality is as follows. Children who engage in "abnormal" type of play, for example boys ... of their peers. The child will in turn see himself as different and not a part of the group. The child will eventually disassociate themselves from the rest of their peer group. In hetero and homosexuality the individual will associate themselves with the group they feel most comfortable ... associate themselves wi...

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... for equal rights for many years. As most people know the United States is most likely going to enter war with Iraq. Although women scream for equal rights and fight a never-ending battle for it, they still however do not have or wish to enroll in the draft. What happened to anything you can do I ... can do better? Physically, medically, and educationally women could be a big help if drafted. A woman, in my opinion, can do anything a man can do. Whether it's fighting or commanding the troops, a woman ... in the army. But you don't see women right activists fighting for the right to get dr...

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... , not in front, not in the side. It is because for men to protect women. That started the saying ladies first. Different cultures different society different belief and that is the case in our country, because in other country that is not the case. So we should learn from the past how it all started. From ... should know that they are the one that should feed the baby. They are the one that should take care of their children and his family. Time thru time, people learn what is the role of man and women. They learn what is the capability of man. Woman has a major role in our society. There...

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