Personal identity is how one person would define themselves and it is often reflected on how society would define them. ... The lack of identity therefore, is seen by the lack of the intangible. ... The construction of gender roles and the loss of identity are issues that are often addressed by Gwen Harwood. ... The idea that a materialistic life is a life lacking identity is represented through the use of the typography. The typography allows the idea of the tangible and the intangible and how that relates to identity to be represented. ...

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According to social identity theory, one way to define an "in-group" is to define an "out-group". The cries "Sisterhood is Powerful" was first and foremost designed to solidify the identity of the "in-group." The purpose of the motto was to promote a common identity for the versatile group of women that were committed to women's liberation. Empowerment for women was considered possible only within the framework of this type of common identity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His identity throughout the older stories is largely a mystery. ... Once Upon a Time gave Rumpelstiltskin an identity he had never had before. ... His identity has become the nameless characters in all the other fairy tales. ... Especially in Once Upon a Time where he is given an identity. The funny thing is Rumpelstiltskin seems to have agency in the story and we seem to understand him even without a name, or an identity. ...

• Word Count: 1467
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In her excerpt, Friedan mainly points out that in order to achieve self-fulfillment or identity, women need to work and therefore use their full capacities, like men. ... After a while, she reveals that, "The identity crisis for women did not begin in America until ( ) the pioneering was done and men began to build the new society in industries and professions outside the home." ... However, I disagree with the author when she says that, "A woman cannot find her identity through her husband, her children" that, "She cannot find it in the dull routine of housework." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As a result, it often comes as a surprise to Western feminists that the veil has become increasingly common in the Muslim world and is often worn proudly by college girls as a symbol of an Islamic identity, freeing them symbolically from neo-colonial Western cultural imperialism and domination. ... There are problems here, problems around identity, acceptance, racism... etc, but the civil law can be used to secure rights. ... After mirroring the feminism of the west, today muslim feminism has taken its own identity and at times resents the particular perception the feminism of the west has...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Edna discovers her identity as an independent woman and breaks through the roles assigned by the patriarchal society. ... After she falls in love with another man, she discovers new things about her and tries to explore her newfound identity. ... But Edna wants to be womanly in her own way--to keep her own identity, her goals, her artistry, and to live a sexual life, liberated from the confines of societal expectations. ... Rather than forge a new hybrid identity that is neither traditionally masculine nor feminine, Edna hesitates between exchanging roles of power with men and subordinating ...

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One need to get her own identity because identity is the key of all human beings. ... People learn and acknowledge that gender has something to do with what they act out not only for their identity but also for others. ... By acting it out for others and seeing them respond positively, it validates one's own identity and give one a sense of "self"." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The narrator feels even worse and more like a burden without the identities of wife and mother. The theme of social restrictions is shown here because she lacks identity. ... By tearing it down, the narrator emerges from the wallpaper and asserts her own identity, albeit a somewhat confused, insane one. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman argued that gender was less a component of identity -fixed, static- that we take with us into our interactions, but rather the product of those interactions. ... And this might result in the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. ... Women are being excluded from formal political processes, expelled from the paid workforce, and denied reproductive freedom as their bodies and identities are maternalized . ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Yet even as Bradstreet suggests, through this sense of performativity, the constructed -ness of gender identity, patriarchal power determines the shape of her very poem about such construction. As Judith Butler explains, "The paradox of subjectivation (assujetissement) is precisely that the subject who would resist such norms [that regulate gender identity] is itself enabled, if not produced, by such norms. ...

• Word Count: 886
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yet even as Bradstreet suggests, through this sense of performativity, the constructed -ness of gender identity, patriarchal power determines the shape of her very poem about such construction. As Judith Butler explains, "The paradox of subjectivation (assujetissement) is precisely that the subject who would resist such norms [that regulate gender identity] is itself enabled, if not produced, by such norms. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By doing this, I will be examining positive and negative effects of factors in society under the field of families and identity. ... All three of the selected thinkers include conflicted identity, disruptive family structure and disorderly cases of childhood. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

These resultant themes correlate with the popular psychological concepts of Implicit Attitudes, Benevolent Sexism, Social Identity Theory, Sex Role Theory and the Theory of Lay Epistemology. ... Ever since John Money first coined the phrase 'gender role' in his 1955 study of intersexuals (hermaphrodites), studies have been performed that appear to show we do not consciously stereotype other people extra-group but in fact are compelled to do so in order to create self-identity and build self-esteem. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Nora realizes that her identity as a woman is more important than keeping her marriage, she slams the door on Torvald. ... A "doll" will only do what its controller wants it to do and this was Nora's identity before she heads out to find herself. ...

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According to Bell Hooks, "Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." To expand upon this quote, oppression means that one may not have the same opportunities as others may. During the 1960's, men were expected to portray a more masculine, aggressive identity. Females...

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• Grade Level: High School

Critically examine recent theories of Gender How do we begin to examine recent theories of Gender. Changes in women's conditions over the 19th & 20th centuries from the perspective of the French Declarations of the rights of man & citizen (1989). In contrast to the conditions that existed before the declaration was issued, it can be said that its points have been fulfilled. The positions that women now occupy is vastly improved over that of prior generations, even though contemporary struggles would mask the gains that have been made. Class, gender, & education are but ...

• Word Count: 2399
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As sociology defines the roots of gender stereotypes, as people strongly define their gender identity (Ibraeva 2003:12). Gender identity is the conception of people about themselves in defining their gender. Starting from this point we can see that the gender identity refers to any of the societies and the Kazakhstani one is not exclusion. Because of the cultural principals and historical background the gender identity in our society sharply shapes the gender roles. ... For more understanding the routine of the gender stratification there is an explanation in sociology of how we are got to ...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the two female agents in the stories The Tigers Bride' and The Werewolf' in regards to the post-modern feminism of our times. Initially in The Tigers Bride' a father looses her daughter (beauty) to The Beast in a game of cards. Obviously Be...

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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the two female agents in the stories The Tigers Bride' and The Werewolf' in regards to the post-modern feminism of our times. Initially in The Tigers Bride' a father looses her daughter (beauty) to The Beast in a game of cards. Obviously Be...

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FEMINISM Feminism is the doctrine that advocates equal rights for women. Feminism is the idea that the Bill of Rights and the constitution should apply equally to women, men, transgender, and transsexual persons. Feminism promotes inclusion, individual identity, and acceptance. Feminism has been...

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The structure of The Yellow Wallpaper creates a sense of immediacy and intimacy. The story is written in a journal-style, first-person narrative which includes nine short entries, each entry indicated by a small space between it and the last. The journal entries span three months during which John ...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle Pregnancy and childbirth are very emotional times in a woman's life and many women suffer from the "baby blues." The innocent nickname for postpartum depression is deceptive because it down plays the severity of this condition. Although she was not formally d...

• Word Count: 1026
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pre-World War II the women of Japan were hidden and taught to be "shufu, woman deep inside the house,- Their identities would mimic only the leading men in their lives, forcing them to remain shallow beings of an over-traditional society. ...

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Throughout centuries women have been weighed down by a patriarchy society. Women were considered inferior to men and were not allowed to have the same rights and equalities that men had, which is what we call feminism today. Feminism was beginning to emerge in the late 1700's and continued to escal...

• Word Count: 1250
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• Grade Level: High School