I. Background of Study Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. The United Kingdom is currently seeing the rise of potential cult classics such as Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, which followed the lives of heroine junkies in modern-day Edinburgh; and ... Bridget Jones" Diary by Helen Fielding, a day-by-day account of the trials and tribulations of a single woman in cosmopolitan London. Nick Hornby, a music and pop-culture critic, has been at the forefront of...

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... women, including their political rights (Ibraeva 2003:11) Inequality between the sexes is mainly based on gender stereotypes, which mean that women's rights were limited both in traditional nomadic Kazakh culture and in the soviet system before transition. Gender stereotypes are the ideas of the society about the rights of both sexes. Gender stereotypes are almost the same in different societies ... another opposite person who will take care about his identity. The society highly values the gender identity, especially the male side. Moreover, the historical principal of natural selection ...

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