Essays on Sociology of Gender

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The Issue of Gender in "The Recruiting Officer"

3 pages / 1193 words

George Farquhar’s 1706 play The Recruiting Officer delves into the careers and personal antics of a male ensemble cast in Restoration era Shropshire. Among these men are the two competing officers Plume and Brazen, the tough Sergeant Kite, and the gentleman Worthy--all of whom, though...

Gender Literature Review

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A Woman’s Journey from North America to Europe in The Portrait of a Lady

4 pages / 1593 words

In psychology, one of the most frequently debated topics deals with the issue of environmental and societal impact on one’s upbringing. It is commonly believed that society plays a tremendous role in how one behaves and how one readily conforms to the environment he is...

Novel Woman

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The Representation of Gender and Gendered Roles in "The Monk" by Gregory Lewis

5 pages / 2203 words

The Monk, published in 1796 by Matthew Lewis, holds the distinction of one of the most popular and most controversial Gothic novels of all times. Set in the backdrop of the Protestant Reformation in Spain, the novel addresses and challenges many sensitive, tabooed societal norms,...

Gender Gothic Literature

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Gender Roles and Women’s Initiative in The Merry Wives of Windsor

3 pages / 1571 words

One of the major themes of The Merry Wives of Windsor is the change in gender roles that was happening in Shakespeare’s time. Gender roles were changing to allow women more freedom and power. In the play, men are depicted as fools, delusional, jealous, and...

Gender William Shakespeare

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Disparity in Gender Roles in "Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters"

2 pages / 988 words

The core battle in the modern Feminist movement has been the battle against set gender roles. Women no longer feel that it is mandatory for them to be a mother and a housewife simply because they were born female, or that it is a man’s...

Feminist Literary Criticism Fiction Gender Roles

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Women’s Oppression in "Persepolis" and in Recent Nonfiction

2 pages / 949 words

The roles of women in Middle Eastern culture have varied throughout the decades, ranging from being delicate creatures in need of protection to becoming blind soldiers suddenly dedicated to a misleading cause. This is most noticeably depicted in the graphic novel Persepolis, in which author...

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Woman

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Battle of The Sexes: Gender Roles in Aeschylus’ "The Eumenides"

3 pages / 1525 words

In the third and final play of The Oresteia trilogy, The Eumenides, Apollo testifies for Orestes and the Furies testify for the late Clytemnestra in a trial that will decide whether or not Orestes is guilty. In this play, a new system of justice centered...

Gender Roles Literature Review Sexual Health

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She once Had Me: The Significance of The Women in Norwegian Wood

5 pages / 2495 words

The people in one’s life are often more important in shaping one’s future than the choices of that individual themselves. In Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, the protagonist, Toru Watanabe, encounters various women who influence him and alter his outlook on life as he progresses through...

Literature Review Novel Woman

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The Issue of Black Female Sexuality in Quicksand by Nella Larsen

7 pages / 3245 words

The entertainment of a Harlem cabaret hypnotizes Helga Crane, the protagonist of Nella Larsen’s Quicksand. She loses herself in the “sudden streaming rhythm” and delights in the sexually suggestive moves of the dancers. Helga is “blown out, ripped out, beaten out by the joyous, wild,...

Novel Sex, Gender and Sexuality

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Women and Their Ability to Raise a Family in Pinter's Play The Homecoming

1 page / 607 words

In The Homecoming, Harold Pinter suggests that there are two types of women: whores or mothers. The whore, he believes, can have little success in family life; the mother, on the other hand, can create a successful family. Pinter’s statement is reinforced by the behavior...

Gender Roles Literature Review

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The Suppression of Women and Inaccessibility to Acquire Jobs Outside Home

1 page / 1811 words

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique ignited the onset of the second wave of feminism in the United States. This book is a sociological study about the roots of the feminine mystique and how it turned “into a religion, a pattern by which all women must...

Book Review Gender Inequality Woman

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Limiting Womens Abilities to Household Chores

1 page / 1454 words

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique created a social revolution in the 1960s by addressing the role of women in society and its effects on their emotional and mental health. Her words opened the eyes of many American housewives who felt incomplete and lost. Friedan helped...

Book Review Dream Woman

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Feminine Imagery on Sexuality

1 page / 976 words

Aphra Behn, as the first woman to earn her living by being a writer in English, known for her daring and controversial treatment of the subjects of sexuality and desire in her works, plays an important female narrative voice in the literary history. In The...

Book Review Gender Roles Human Sexuality

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Rational Male Law and Female Power Due to Gender Mythology

1 page / 1893 words

In numerous instances of mythology, an initial, primordial female power is supplanted or in some way altered by a male figure. In Hesiod’s Theogony, Gaea’s original supremacy is eventually usurped by Zeus, while in Aeschylus’ Eumenides, the primal power of the Furies is supplanted by...

Gender

699

The Fabliaux Illustration of Sex Without Arousal and Logic Manner

1 page / 3474 words

The graphic portrayal of sex and explicit references to its most immediately related organs need hardly be pointed out to even the most careless reader of the fabliaux. Representative episodes are vivid, strange, and even raunchy: a man confuses his wife’s vagina for a massive...

Gender

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How Gender Inequality Has Lowered The Strength of Women as Writers

1 page / 3750 words

How far have we, as women, come – politically, economically, and socially? With a female nominee for president, a tightening of the gender pay gap, and a push towards more family-friendly maternity/paternity leave, a cursory glance would reveal astounding advancement in comparison to our twentieth-century...

Gender Mary Wollstonecraft

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History of Gender Roles Presented by Samuel Pepys's Diary

1 page / 1968 words

Samuel Pepys’s Diary is often studied for its first-hand account of important events in London’s history. Pepys records information on the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy, the Plague, and the Great Fire of London, and readers are able to gain a greater understanding of this...

Book Review Gender Roles

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Boccaccio's Portrayal of Medieval Life in "The Decameron"

1 page / 1818 words

Introduction Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval work of art The Decameron highlights both the righteous and sinful ways of humans, through the telling of short stories. Boccaccio’s tales cover a wide array of topics, including adultery, love, devotion, trickery, and attributes of selfish and selfless people. Many...

Gender Roles Renaissance The Decameron

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The Phallus: The Art of Rejection

1 page / 929 words

According to Jack Halberstam in his book The Queer Art of Failure, “the queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and...

Fiction Gender