Hindu society dictates that once a girl is married, she no longer belongs in the home of her parents and her husband's home is her entire future. She may never return to her maternal home on a permanent basis, for that would bring shame upon her in Continue Reading...
Feminist Criticism in Television Programming In analyzing the impact of mass media to its audiences and cultures in today's societies, it is important to also consider the theoretical framework from which mass media analysis is based from and develo Continue Reading...
Women and water in India. In the villages of North Gujarat in India, so much groundwater has been removed that water supplies are now becoming scarce, according to Bhawana Upadhyay, writing in the journal Agriculture and Human Values. Women in Nort Continue Reading...
Sexism Against Women Sexism is the unfair preference of one gender and its capabilities over the other gender. (Gotz, 1999) Sexism is not a bias that just comes out of nowhere and is present in the world today. This tradition or problem in fact is p Continue Reading...
Earl of Rochester / Aphra Behn Masks and Masculinities: Gender and Performance in the Earl of Rochester's "Imperfect Enjoyment" and Aphra Behn's "The Disappointment" Literature of the English Restoration offers the example of a number of writers Continue Reading...
Examples of successful women abound in recent history, evidenced by the recognition of Oprah Winfrey as one of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in the entertainment/news industries, Venus Williams as one of the highest paid tennis profe Continue Reading...
Women and the American Economy The American workforce has been composed of men and women for many decades now. Despite history shows that the American workforce used to be made up of only the male gender, the women gender had shown that they have th Continue Reading...
Brain Differences in Boys and Girls The obvious biological differences between men and women have inspired a search for corresponding mental differences. Indeed, much of the oppression suffered by women in the traditionally patriarchal world of busi Continue Reading...
Communication is a necessity for any relationship -- whether personal or professional; without communication there is not a relationship. Though communication is the basis of every relationship, there are good forms of communication as well as not-so Continue Reading...
Zimbabwe: A Cultural Analysis The work of Hall (1982) relates how primary message systems in a culture serve to communicate the values and norms of that culture and are the instructions that everyone in that culture receives on what is considered wi Continue Reading...
As the narrator is denied access to the world and the normal expression of her individuality, so she becomes a true prisoner of the room with the yellow wallpaper. Her life and consciousness becomes more restricted until the wallpaper becomes an an Continue Reading...
Even during the golden years of the beauty contest between the wars there were unresolved problems with the nature and purpose of such competitions: There remained elements of discomfort and tension, only superficially palliated by the scientific d Continue Reading...
Males vs. Females in Society The cliche is that "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," implying that the worlds of the two genders are completely alien to each other and light years apart in functionality. While recent decades have featured a gr Continue Reading...
Identity Themes in Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall and Confessions of a Mask by Mishima As marginalized people from around the world gain their voice in print, contemporary interpretations of identity become especially timely and relevant Continue Reading...
Women in Maritime Sector THE IMPACT OF PROMOTING WOMEN IN THE MARITIME SECTOR The participation of women in the maritime sector has traditionally been low due to historical, cultural and social factors. Although the percentage of women making up th Continue Reading...
Count Dracula and Hanibal Lector Program Authorized to Offer Degree The Analysis of Count Dracula and Hanibal Lector Identities of Count Dracula and Hannibal Supernatural Powers Gender and Sexuality Blood-Drinking The relation between Dracul Continue Reading...
Through the Looking Class Darkly by Uma Narayan "Through The Looking Class Darkly" by Uma Narayan describes the challenges of creating a truly multicultural conception of feminist without objectifying members of non-white cultures as 'other.' Naraya Continue Reading...
Earnest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway may not have been a deliberate or conscious chauvinist but the manner in which he presented his characters suggests that the "Hemmingway hero" is the focus of all his stories and the 'heroine' is somewhat lost in t Continue Reading...
1. PERSONAL STATEMENTI am interested in the topic of Bessie Smith, her music, herself as a symbol of the Southern Rebel, and how her death was used to draw attention to the issue of segregation in the South and what the reality of the story actually Continue Reading...
Adultery and any sort of infidelity turns out to be a different story for men as Rosenthal stresses: "prohibition against adultery is not about property, pregnancy, misdirected male desire, or bloodlines, as one might have thought, but about the pre Continue Reading...
Public Perception of Women from 1950's to 21st Century Man and women are what constitutes what one calls Mankind or Human Beings. Historically man has tried to be dominant over the woman. The further one travels in history it is seen that women wer Continue Reading...
She is warm and straightforward, considerate and humble. She is not a hypocrite or a cheat, does not speak falsely and offers good advice in a prudent way and for the general welfare. She has a word and keeps it. She is modest in appearance and in m Continue Reading...
China: Female Infanticide As soon as the baby girl was born, my mother-in-law kicked it with her toe and said, 'Who wants this?' She wrapped it in a wet towel and left it on the floor. My husband's sister, weak after the delivery, just wept. It died Continue Reading...
decision for women to leave the workforce and care for their children, it is more of a difficult choice then ever before. Modern conservatives consistently present the idea that women are naturally and inherently child-rearing and therefor should de Continue Reading...
She is the daughter of Alice Walker, who wrote the Color Purple. She took her mother's maiden name at the age of 18. Rebecca graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1993, and moved on to co-found the Third Wave Foundation. She is considered to b Continue Reading...
Specifically, Schmitt addresses sexuality under what he refers to as a pluralistic perspective, asserting that men and women alike exist under a pretense of lifelong alterations in sexual desires and that in both, there may be some degree of inheren Continue Reading...
Indeed, if there is only one type of beautiful person, it contributes to increased insecurity in women who happen to be a different shape or size from the "ideal" women perpetuated in the popular culture. According to Dank, Norton, Olds and Olive ( Continue Reading...
Mary Wollstonecraft The Woman This section explains the timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft's life; understanding the choices, relationships, and events in her life helps one to understand her drive and focus in liberal feminism over the course of her Continue Reading...
All without distinction were branded as fanatics and phantasts; not only those, whose wild and exorbitant imaginations had actually engendered only extravagant and grotesque phantasms, and whose productions were, for the most part, poor copies and g Continue Reading...
Feminine Pedagogy and Critical Theory Pedagogy of the Oppressed "We are living in a period of profound challenges to traditional Western epistemology and political theory" that are in evidence in every aspect of modern life, and that are especially Continue Reading...
The disparity in income of male vs. female heads of household is striking. Analysis of census data revealed that, in 1949, approximately thirty percent of households headed by white males were living in poverty, compared to just under thirteen perce Continue Reading...
She is the engine which drives the family. Her attitude influences the one of the others. Being aware of this she succeeds to control the manifestation of her emotions. Another proof of her wisdom is the fact that she does not want to impose hersel Continue Reading...
Paul Patton (1998) maintains, "in this manner, the ways in which certain human capacities become identified and finalized within particular forms of subjectivity the ways in which power creates subjects may also become systems of domination (71). F Continue Reading...
143). In this regard, Yen cites the case of one-4-year-old child who was sold to a child sex-trafficking ring operating in the United States. According to Yen, "She was enslaved for twelve years, servicing mostly American men. To keep the children o Continue Reading...
This is a small step towards the improvement of opportunities for women in the Middle East. However, Turkey is considered a "soft" power in the Middle East (Altunisik, 2005), so this small step alone is unlikely to result in immediate sweeping chang Continue Reading...
Alzheimers Disease in Women: ProspectusTable of ContentsIntroduction 3Background 3Relevance and Importance 4Practical Importance 4Empirical Importance 5Theoretical Importance 5Prior Research 5Problem Statement 6Purpose Statement 6Research Questions 6 Continue Reading...
Gender-Based Issues in Aviation and Attitudes towards Female Leaders: a Cross-Cultural AnalysisIntroductionThis research will explore gender-based issues in the aviation industry and the attitudes towards female leaders in different cultures. The avi Continue Reading...
NIn spite of touch being very significant as a communication means, very little is known on why and when touch takes place and what can be deduced when it takes place in opposite-gender or same-gender interactions. Studies focusing on this topic conc Continue Reading...
Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colorless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in a pale fantastic world that seemed to Continue Reading...
Oppressed Edible Woman The Edible Woman -- Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman offers a look at the conventionalized aspects of society that result in a version of cultural violence which is gender-oppressive. In kaleidoscopic fashion, the protagonist Continue Reading...
