... neutral due to it not being a certain color, or having a certain way of life. When I went to Walmart, to search for my product the aisle contained toys such as Lincoln Logs, Lego's, model cars, and other "build it yourself" toys. The surrounding aisle suggests that the creators of Lego's goal is the increase the creativity in children at a young ... toy to determine whether or not it would fit their personality. "Adults who subscribe to more traditional, conservative gender roles see children's preferences for stereotypical clothing and toys as natural expressions of innate differences,...

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... , also threatens to overflow the boundaries of its authority. The girls, Carol and Eva, push a log into the water and straddling it, paddle around in the shallows. Their use of a "natural" object and the spontaneous entry into the swollen river contrasts with the actions of the boys who have been busily attempting to construct a raft "from lumber they had salvaged from ... mother's stove, placing Eva in the traditional homemaker role. The boys repair the found boat out of things, floating around in the swelling river, debris such as: " branches, fence -rails, logs, road signs, old lumber...

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... and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln Logs and the girl gets a PlaySchool oven and a plastic tea set with which to play house. Sounds pretty normal right? Why? As illustrated in the not-so-fictional scenario above, gender ... ...

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... and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln Logs and the girl gets a PlaySchool oven and a plastic tea set with which to play house. Sounds pretty normal right? Why? As illustrated in the not-so-fictional scenario above, gender ... ...

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... starts acting too "manly" and that gets him in trouble because he is not ready: "As he put on the pressure the line tightened into sudden hardness and beyond the logs a huge trout went high out of water. As he jumped, Nick lowered the tip of the rod. But he felt, as he dropped the tip to ease the strain, the ... ...

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... (Hedrick & Temeles, 1989). Competition for a mate, and mate choice, has been categorized into two separate types of sexual selection: Intra-sexual selection and inter-sexual selection respectively. Natural selection on the other hand is the process where species that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce offspring, passing on their advantageous traits from generation to generation ... their offspring. Female's preference for more muscular men therefore indicates that inter-sexual selection has played a role in making the difference between male and female muscle c...

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... community. While all religions are very different, they can be broken up into three categories: Those that encourage natural gender roles that stem from evolution, those that seek to control these natural gender roles, and those in between. Religions that appear to encourage the gender roles that have resulted from ... controlled by males, or even by society. Males tend to be polygynous. On the other hand, those religions that appear to want to control natural gender roles tend to have more of an equality between men and women, or even, favor women. Also, monogamy is the social norm. Whil...

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... criticized as not sufficient proof that biological sex alone produces gender behaviour. (Lorber, 1994). Sociobiology research claims that the human body and human behaviour are the products of natural adaptations. Sociobiology theories suggest that the differences between men and women are because of evolutionary processes, therefore biological. Sociobiologists state that male and female dichotomy happens because women cannot ... have as many offspring as possible. Thus, women and men have different reproductive strategies (Workman and Reader, 2008). Furthermore, Sociobiology suggests tha...

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... because women have not been taught to be autonomous, and ignorance of any other lifestyle but marriage, that woman is under the abused control of man. Rousseau calls this control natural, while Wollstonecraft contends that men have control because no other options exist for women (Wollstonecraft, 266). Society, and men who constructed it, have subjugated women by not allowing ... subsequently more virtuous companions, sisters, daughters, and mothers (Wollstonecraft, 269). Rousseau believes that women "cannot honestly refuse her consent to the inner voice nor disregard her duty in her na...

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... tolerated in a boy, where it would likely not be tolerated in girls. The process of gender socialization is in this way disguised as "natural." But the essential fact is that our gender roles are taught to each of us, and are rigidly enforced, through families and friends, educational ... child is of prime importance. This belief is especially strongly help, supported by Freud's theories about infant sexuality, with a child's inquisitiveness being a natural part of the development. Accordingly, those who were not curious about whether other boys or girls were designed the same way were ...

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... endurance. Asserting that the gifts of nature are distributed between males and females, yet not every single individual possesses all natural abilities. Just as some men have a natural talent towards music and some do not, it is possible that some women are natural philosophers and some are not. Plato believed that everyone should contribute to society by exercising their own naturally given talents ... aspects, such as belief in human equality with respect to social, political and economic rights and privileges are also evident. Education of all members of Athenian society according t...

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... was explosive, relating to all aspects of human civilization and culture, especially the traditional roles of men and women. The development of the Mechanical Philosophy further opened questions about the "natural" nature of observed phenomena. Obviously, machines were not intelligent, yet they worked. Could it be that the universe is a machine designed by God? It works perfectly but it is not ... " question. It shows direct linkage to our modern woman's rights claim of biological sexual equality, even in the face of differing physiological strengths and weaknesses. Developing new unders...

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Gender as a Process of Social Construction As part of our society, we have classified the "natural" differences between sexes as gender. The classification of female and male is also contingent with age; we have boys and girls, men and women, grandfather and grandmother ( Goldberg and ... the idea of gender it is easy to interpret it as a simple phenomenon. That is, gender is widely perceived as simply being a natural occurrence that happens at birth. Yet, studying gender as a social-economic driver rather than just a natural phenomenon, allows us to understand that there is more to gende...

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... basic premises and make a critic of his understanding of Hobbes. As Carol Pateman herself informs Hobbes is the only contract theorist, which began from the premise that there is not natural domination of men over women since both of the sexes are vulnerable to the danger of physical assault in the state of nature and they are equal in terms of ... frees men from fatherly patriarchal political power, but not women from masculine patriarchal power. Therefore, according to her, Hobbes does not cover women with his individualist umbrella. Women's natural maternal power and women's natural ...

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... -hood is achieved in a woman, the next step of development (childbirth) is likewise given a lack of respect and reverence. Perhaps more emphasis should be placed upon natural and midwife, at home births. These gives women control of the act, control of the process, and allows the process to be conducted at her will. This may ... encourage a deeper dignity and ability to truly experience this ritual as a miracle. Through the Goddess" aid we renew our values in these natural events. Unlike the previous views, we look up to the triple embodiment of the Goddess. Christ describes our celebrat...

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... indeed in their "nature" to choose the role of wife and mother. (William Stafford, 1998) Second wave feminists have argued against such notions of natural choice, they challenge the idea that motherhood is the only meaningful available occupation open to women. They have developed a critique of the family, which ... article.php? 29/03/03 Men are now taking new nurturing roles in the family and women are more prominent in the workplace, but natural differences, arguably still remain. The New Man Mag celebrates maleness as an innate certainty. It challenges new ideas relating to men. If we ...

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... a person, people have preconceived views and the people who don't fit in them are wrong. Society has set the guidelines and molds us into what is stated to be the natural pattern for what makes a man or a woman. The concept of gender performativity is "real only to the extent that it is performed" (Gender Trouble). What this means is ... of sex, if sex itself is a gendered category... gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or a "natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive", prior to culture, a pol...

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... a person, people have preconceived views and the people who don't fit in them are wrong. Society has set the guidelines and molds us into what is stated to be the natural pattern for what makes a man or a woman. The concept of gender performativity is "real only to the extent that it is performed" (Gender Trouble). What this means is ... of sex, if sex itself is a gendered category... gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or a "natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive", prior to culture, a pol...

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... that Winterson plays with the ambiguity of desire, sex and gender as a parallel of male and female. The author claims gender being cultural, not natural and she divides the issue of the body into two: sex as a natural issue and gender as a cultural issue. There are two main examples in the novel that Winterson uses in order to deconstruct gender and, also ... and behaviour in the Western culture. We perform gender because it is something cultural and we also copy what the society establishes, because it is supposed to be correct and natural. It is an effect of culture and of the human b...

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... internalised misogyny as accepting of the same cultural assumptions of the rapists. It exposes how the male hegemony has been accepted by our society and that rape has become the natural expression for male dominance because as a culture we assume men are entitled to this power. Shame utilizes common idioms and slurs to represent how our male dominant society accepts rape ... mateship and male-bonding through violence, drinking and gang rape. This scene within Shame uses the selection of young boys and their unrestrained actions as a representation on how rape is a natural expression of...

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... , resent it, or experience mixed feelings. "Sexuality is a continuum not a fix and static set of binary oppositions." As Teresa de Lauretis believes " sexuality, commonly thought to be a natural as well as a privet matter, is in fact completely constructed in culture according to the political aims of society's dominant class. (as qtd in Guerin 237). Gender studies examine how ... said in The Second Sex: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one". For both feminists and gender critics, society portrays binary oppositions like masculine/feminine or straight/gay as natural categories, but ...

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... pressure comes into play in a teen's high school years; individuals begin to experiment with homosexual behavior and eventually become addicted to it, thus, making it more and more natural for that individual. Natural is what homosexuality is NOT in society's eye. Many people think homosexuality is some sort of disease that you cannot cure, and they stay clear of homosexuals for the ... fear of turning gay themselves. They feel that any move to treat a homosexual lifestyle and behavior as normal and natural will cause more youth to experiment with same-sex relationships (Tatchell 2). On...

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... being killed. I believe that today people criticize the life of homosexuality because, they do not agree that it is moral or natural. I believe many that criticize are not hateful, rather ignorant. Homosexual behavior certainly does not feel normal or natural for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals often have strong feelings of revulsion towards the idea, and therefore it is to be considered morally wrong. Many ... . However I do believe many of the people opposed to homosexuality do believe that God made for man and women to be together. That man and woman is the only sensible, natural and rig...

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... women alike. Chivas Regal, a premium scotch whiskey, uses its advertisement in the October 2002 issue of Playboy, to allow the readers mind to lust over the tasteful photograph. By associating natural beauty with a quality liquor in a men's magazine this advertisement forms a social hierarchy where the female gender is associated with enjoyment and pleasure. The photograph is appealing to men because the ... is a man," "when you know," and "Drink responsibly (but you already know that)." These are all phrases that imply a male dominance over women. "Yes, God is a Man," accompanied with ...

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... very door"; (Wu, p266) nature surrounds, and invades, it is at one with the property and people. Here, unlike Ada's own home the sounds of wildlife permeate; all is in natural harmony. Baine's environment and relationship with the natives acts only to highlight the deficiencies in Stewart's world. The scene by the river, with Baines and the natives, show the ease ... with humour and women take an active and positive role. Clothing is loose, unfettered and easy. Gait and poise are natural and relaxed, as opposed to the strutting, awkward Victorian "dis-ease" with which Stewart and Ada su...

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