Essays on Sociology of Gender

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Gender and Feminism in Flashdance and Dirty Dancing

4 pages / 1745 words

The eighties were a time of change for many women around the globe. The fight against the sexual stereotypes set by the media, art, and advertising of the previous decades starts to become stronger. People start realizing that beyond women's basic rights, such as voting...

Gender Inequality Gender Stereotypes

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The True Role of Women

3 pages / 1510 words

There has always been a huge debate on the role of women in society. Women are seen as dependent on men, women are belittled, women are inferior to men, women have a “place and role” to follow, and women are considered second class to men....

Gender Identity Society

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Life Experiencences of Transgender

4 pages / 1648 words

The walls of our temples and the pages of our epics talk about the sexual fluidity which was a part of ancient India. But the times have changed. Globalized India has placed sexuality in watertight compartments therefore causing a loss in the vivid history it...

Gender Identity India Transgender

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Women's Roles in The Stronger, Trifles, and Doubt: a Parable

4 pages / 982 words

Activists and reformers spent nearly a century fighting for women’s rights, leading to significant disagreements and conflicts within society. Traditionally, a “true woman” was viewed as a religious, submissive wife and mother, dedicated to the needs of her home and family. While some women accepted...

Gender Roles Trifles

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Psycho-social Challenges of Gay Community: a Keralite Gay Scenario

4 pages / 1658 words

People might be special, however, they’re different for a reason. Being gay in India is not a walk in the park. Rather, it’s like a stroll in a good rope across a canyon. From consciousness to social and personal popularity is certainly a tough challenge....

Psychoanalysis Sexual Orientation Society

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Analysis of Connells Theory of Hegemonic Masculinity

5 pages / 2175 words

In today’s society it takes a lot to grasp the change in how masculinity is “supposed” to be. To be able to truly understand the sort of expectations that men are held to by society there must be a detailed look into what R.W. Connell...

Masculinity Society Theory

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Social Construction and Performance of Hegemonic Masculinity in Michael Kimmel’s Guyland

3 pages / 1190 words

This Novel by Michael Kimmel, Guyland, is solely about the life experiences of men roughly through the ages of 16 and 25. A handful of these young men where interviewed to see the way the handle the big transition into manhood. The transition to manhood...

Construction Masculinity Performance

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Research of How People Learn Gender Roles

4 pages / 1630 words

Who choose our gender roles? We should ask ourselves first about our gender and who chose it for us to get understand more about our life. Most of us have been thinking of the roles we have now. When people talk about gender role, most...

Gender Roles Sexual Health Society

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Masculinity in "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz

3 pages / 1207 words

Throughout the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, written by Junot Diaz, sex and masculinity is the vital element in being a Dominican male. Dominican males according to Yunior, the narrator of the novel, is someone who has power and pizzazz, dominates women,...

Masculinity Novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Men and Women in Advertising

2 pages / 962 words

Introduction What really entices the consumer into the advertisement? Is it the product itself, the provocative image of a woman with her breasts exposed, or a muscular man showing off his body wearing pants that barely cover him? These advertisements portray a distorted representation of...

Advertisement Marketing and Advertising Sex, Gender and Sexuality

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The Role of Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution

1 page / 427 words

While men have historically dominated areas such as international diplomacy and negotiations of commerce and finance, studies are showing that women’s experiences, communication styles and rapport-building abilities often help disputants see the benefits of resolution. Gender differences may offer a vital variety of strengths when...

Alternative Dispute Resolution Woman

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Anglo-saxon England and The Place of Women

7 pages / 3256 words

In 1985, in Butler’s Field, Lechlow, a grave of an Anglo-Saxon woman buried over fifteen hundred years ago was discovered. The extraordinary richness of her grave goods, its abundance of amber beads and gilt bronze brooches making it one of the most opulent burial sites...

British History Woman

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A Study of Homosexuality and Same-sex Marriage Around The World

5 pages / 2220 words

Homosexuality is being attracted to members of the same-sex. Rights for same-sex marriage vary all over the world. Some countries have had it legalized for years, other countries just recently, and some other countries still haven’t accepted homosexuality as a norm. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Homosexuality Same Sex Marriage

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Shakespeare's The Tempest and The Role of Gender Performativity Between Prospero and Ariel

2 pages / 871 words

In William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, Shakespeare seems to drop the perceived roles of gender and what traits and attributes are perceived with either the male or female gender. What makes the play written by Shakespeare unique is that Ariel is a male in his...

Gender Performativity

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The Concept of Gender Performativity and Its Role

2 pages / 961 words

In the 1950s, J.L Austin, the British philosopher explored and explained his perspective of ‘performative language’. He is the first person who divided language into two types: constative and performative. (Butler, 2004) John Searle’s theory of ‘speech act’, the phenomenological theory of ‘acts’ and Simone...

Gender Performativity

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The Portrayal of Gender Roles in The Media

1 page / 518 words

Gender roles in the Media Often when we see in advertisements, movies, or the media in general we see gender stereotypes. Where men are shown as tough, show no emotions, messy and unclean, lazy, like to take risk, and are predominantly dominate. Women are shown...

Gender Roles

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The Period Party: The Analysis of The Tv Commercial by Helloflo

3 pages / 1566 words

The first menstrual period can be very stressful for some girls. As it happened to Katie in the TV commercial, “First Moon Party,” by HelloFlo, which advertises a menstruation starter kit. The story is about Katie, a girl who wants her period so badly that...

Advertisement Girl

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Result of The Feminization of Poverty

4 pages / 1652 words

Over the past decades there has been growing concern regarding the growing gap between men and women and men living in poverty. This has come to be known s the feminization of poverty. A notion that that women are more likely to be poorer as...

Gender Inequality Gender Roles Gender Wage Gap

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How Women Can Cope with Failure and Rejection

1 page / 340 words

Everyone gets rejected at one point or the other; some even get rejected daily, weekly or monthly. Rejection is not peculiar to women, but our focus would be on how women can effectively deal with failure and rejection when they occur. According to Winston Churchill...

Society Winston Churchill Woman