Foucault sought to explore the history of sex in three volumes of his book History of Sex namely: The Will to Knowledge (La volonté de savoir), The Use of Pleasure (l'usage des plaisirs), and The Care of the Self (le souci de soi). ... He came from a time when the ruling class basically asked the world of medicine to talk about sex and explore sex and hence that is that Freud did. ... To the Greeks eating, drinking and having sex were all a very important part of survival and hence it was imperative for people to have eat drink and have sex. ... For the Greeks the control of s...

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In the essay, "Sex, Lies, and Communication," Deborah Tannen asserts that men and women have communication differences. ... Because of these differences, Tannen says, the expectations of communication in marriage differ between the sexes. ... Beyond just the physical positions, Tannen's own research shows that topical alignment of the sexes differs greatly; she found that males tended to jump around in conversations, hitting many topics and not staying long on any of them, while women tended to stay on one subject and discuss it at length. ... She maintains that understanding and acc...

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Sex in the Snow. ... Put aside the thought of the provocative title of this book, as I discuss Michael Adams", "Sex in the Snow". ... The snow represents what is most enduring in Canadian values; the sex represents the hedonism and demand for immediate satisfaction that distinguishes the recent evolution of social and moral values in the country. ... First off, he notes that there are differences between the sexes, but that these are relatively minor compared to the differences between the tribes themselves. ...

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"Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes" – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Feminism is a modern force for change within the western world; it challenges the patriarchal dogma. ...

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Language and vocabulary concerning sex was restricted, strictly defined, policed and censored. ... The discourses about sex amongst the everyday person were reinforced at an institutional level. ... Foucault reasons that this resulted in an explosion in the dialogue about sex. ... In the eighteenth century, talking about sex became public interest. ... The evolution of the discourse about sex continued into the nineteenth century. ...

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The key to a dual-sex system is the understanding of gender in society and culture through Africa before colonization (485). African society groups, such as the Igbo culture are defined and represented by sex; these groups have no gender, and so therefore, each sex manages their own affairs (485). The dual-sex political systems give women power in their society verses the Western single-sex political system where the roles are to be held by a man (485). ...

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The bathrooms visited and documented for this project does reinforce the social and cultural norms with respect to gender and sex because of the gender neutral stalls around Colby-Sawyer and the stalls that are in the bathroom. The bathrooms visited and documented, reinforce social and cultural norms with respect to gender and sex because of the gender neutral bathrooms around the school. ... Also the information found reinforces social and cultural norms with respect to gender and sex because of the stalls that are in the restroom. Specific sex bathrooms have many stalls inside of them. ......

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Women are the sex symbols of music. ... Women are gifted and talented individuals who work hard and deserve to be respected regardless of their sex. They should not be treated as sex objects because it slowly becomes the norm in society and feeds into this culture. ... Shakira is a perfect example of a natural, self-made artist who has become a sex symbol in today's music industry. ... In a society where sex sells, the music industry takes advantage of women and makes their profit. ...

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The visual presentation of such imagery violates the primordial ability to differentiate between the sexes, and embodies the fundamental characteristics of a cult film. ... This McCarthyism value system was threatened with the first publicized sex change. "The big news in February of that year was the return to the States of first publicized sex-change operation. ... Glen or Glenda, by Ed Wood was originally conceptualized to be a documentary detailing the sex change of New Yorker George Jorgenson but was later adapted by Wood. ... The women do not hesitate to trade sex for success or experi...

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As asserted by sociologists, "ones sex is biological, whilst gender is social". The distinction between sex and gender differentiates sex (anatomy of an individual's reproductive system) from gender (social roles based on the sex of the person, usually culturally learned). ... This is generally described as one's private sense of being a man or a woman, however, some individuals do not identify with some of the aspects of gender that are assigned to their biological sex. ... Subsequently, as gender is a social construct, conflict theorists would acknowledge how gender r...

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Another controversial belief is the topic of pre-marital sex. Throughout my life I have been taught that pre-marital sex is morally wrong. The public school education has also tried to push off the belief that abstinence is the safest sex. Despite all this, I have still followed the belief of Generation-X in thinking that pre-marital sex is acceptable if it is done safely. ...

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Much like how gender is determined by the sex the person has at birth, race is determined by the pigmentation of ones skin. ... First, one must understand that sex and gender differ. Sex is an ascribed status, while gender is an achieved one. ... As a whole, society believes that gender is unchanging along with the person's assigned sex, very much similar to race. ...

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There could be conflict in people with race, sex, groups, and so on, there could also be conflict with family, friends etc. ... My favorite part of the song that lead me to it for this assignment is: [Lil' Kim:] Check it - Here's something I just can't understand If the guy have three girls then he's the man He can either give us some head, sex her off If the girl do the same, then she's a whore But the table's about to turn I'll bet my fame on it Cats take my ideas and put their name on it It's aiight though, you can't hold me down I got...

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The first definition, states that feminism is "Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes" (www.dictionary.com). ... As stated by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, feminism is the "Theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes," (The Merriam Webster-Dictionary 280) and the second listed definition is "Organized activity on behalf on women's rights and interests." ...

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Biological Determinism is centred around the premise that biology is the sole determinant of who we are as a person, based on whether we are male or female and the characteristics that each of the sexes possess. ... Biological Determinism certainly supports stereotypes and oversimplification of women and men as having their realms in both the private and public sphere that are best suited for them based on their sex. ...

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There exists one woman who dazzled the public as the sex symbol of entertainment, whose beauty and charm immortalized her: Marilyn Monroe. ... Sex was the unspoken action and being sexy was rarely heard of in the mid 1900's. ... Marilyn proved to many that a big girl- can be just as much of a sex symbol as Britney Spears or Demi Moore who had their share of their fifteen minutes of fame. ...

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The reason why I think this is an important issue is that it seems to me most of the girls that considered sex is just a momentary thing in which it is for entertainment or for the sake of it. They never value their body and the actual meaning of having sex and to me people who don't value their own body is no different than a prostitute just that this kind of sex doesn't get money. ...

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As a decentralized religion over a large empire, Christianity contained various beliefs and interpretations that appealed to both sexes. ... " Within the ordinary working class, there was an ordinance for women to work alongside men in daily labor as stated by Pagels, "In the lower class, where all labor was needed, women had been allowed to perform any services they could do;" thus, there was more equality between the sexes (University Readers 86). ... Although Christianity's popularity led to the subordination of women, some might argue that the spread of Christianity a...

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A women's role is seen as that of a domestic carer within the family. This subject rise's the question of whether the female role is the product of biology or socialisation. Biologists argue that the role is determined by her biology namely her ability to reproduce. This suggests that a woman is bes...

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Every year, more than one hundred and sixty thousand American women are raped. Every year, nearly three thousand rapes are reported a result of the growing problem identified as date rape. The popular drug Rohypnol, commonly referred to as Roofies, has lead to this popular "new way of rape" in whi...

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Simone de Beauvoir in her article "Introduction to the Second Sex" discusses that women the situation of women in that they live in a world where men automatically assume her to be the "other." ... The only reason for which a woman is essential for a man is for sex. ...

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One of these topics is sex. ... On the other hand, the situation is far more intense when they are speaking about Claires sexual experience (or lack there of) which goes to show how hypocritical it is that men don't really have to worry about their sex lives whereas as a females sex life is more important than it should be. ...

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In 1932, sex was an act that was only considered to be acceptable between husband and wife. ... Comparing "Red Dust"" to the majority of films that are produced today, this film would not be considered obscene, as sex and drugs are common depictions in movies that are released on a regular basis. ... In addition, alcohol and sex are so commonplace in the media today, that films of all genres incorporate it due to public demand. ...

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The explanations for law and enforcement is one - dimensional, saying that all laws are for the benefit of the ruling class when some laws are universal for example; The law that sex is illegal under the age of sixteen - this protects everyone under the age of sixteen from having sex forced upon them, rape, without a serious consequence afterwards - jail sentence. ... For example the ones listed above these laws protect everyone regardless of age, race, sex, gender or social class, these types of laws are universal. ...

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The first definition, states that feminism is "Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes- (www.dictionary.com). ... As stated by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, feminism is the "Theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes,"" (The Merriam Webster-Dictionary 280) and the second listed definition is "Organized activity on behalf on women's rights and interests."" ...

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