Essays on Sociology of Gender

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Limiting Womens Abilities to Household Chores

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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

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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

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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

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The Fabliaux Illustration of Sex Without Arousal and Logic Manner

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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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

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Gender Role Depicted in 'The Coquette'

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Although Hannah Webster Foster names her book The Coquette, there is ambiguity in who the true coquette of the story is. Eliza Wharton, named the coquette by Foster and the other characters of the story, does not follow the rules of coquetry. Instead it is...

Gender Roles Novel

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Mrs. Dalloway's Impact on Gender Equality

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The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed significant strides in the upheaval of gender bias and patriarchal standards. Women gained many more liberties, such as with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, and the first wave of feminism was at its golden age. However, gender...

Gender Roles Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

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Shaw Empowers Women in 'New Woman'

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George Bernard Shaw exemplifies values of the “new woman” and “superhero” through the character of Vivie Warren, in the play Mrs. Warren’s Profession, in order to promote individualism and critical thinking amongst females. Even the male characters like Sir George Crofts and Frank Gardener are...

American Culture Woman

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Gender Topic in The Works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

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In the early twentieth century, many writers began to give a more complex, nuanced, and realistic portrayal of the issues that surround gender. Virginia Woolf, often heralded as one of the most important voices in feminist literature, wrote about this concept in a way that,...

Gender Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

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Gender Stereotypes Present in "Mother Courage"

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“The term gender is commonly used to refer to the psychological, cultural, and social characteristics that distinguish the sexes”  . From the idea of gender such notions as gender bias and stereotyping have developed. Stereotypes have lead society to believe that a male or female...

Gender Literature Review

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A Guide on Gender Roles in Post War as Portrayed in Mildred Pierce

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Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1948) is a dynamic film that attempts to reconstruct a post-war economy by teaching lessons about the importance of gender roles and a balanced family to the men and women in the theaters. Mildred Pierce illuminates “the historical need to reconstruct...

Film Analysis Gender Roles

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Failures to Separate Desires from Reality

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As its title suggests, “M. Butterfly” is essentially a play about metamorphosis. It is, firstly, the metamorphosis of Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera “Madame Butterfly” into a modern-day geopolitical argument for cultural understanding. Author David Henry Hwang shows, through a highly implausible love affair between a...

Female Masculinity Literature Review Masculinity

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Abandoning The Actions of The Society in Light in August

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Although most men and women recognize how traditional gender roles dictate their actions in hopes of being accepted into society, very few can claim that they have been completely exiled from their community because they appear too “masculine” or vice-versa. In Light in August, the...

Gender Roles Light In August William Faulkner

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Interaction of Males and Dominance of Masculinity

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Written at a time where the conventions of marriage were being challenged and transformed, Le Bel Inconnu charts a tale of romance and self-discovery ultimately ending in the abandonment of true love and instead acceptance of a royally approved marriage. Given the relative power of...

Book Review Homosexuality Masculinity

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The Social Constraints of Gender in Kate Chopin's Works

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The social constructs of gender are manifested through the forced institution of marriage in Kate Chopin’s “La Belle Zorade” and “The Story of an Hour.” The protagonists in each story experience suppressed emotions in response to the social institution of marriage, which limits their female...

Gender Kate Chopin

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A Study of Tree Girls

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“A sex symbol’s currency lies in her youth, her curves, in the suggestion that a sexual encounter lurks around the next corner.” (Sharon Krum, The Guardian) The power struggle between genders in society is something that can be seen every day, particularly in the media....

Homosexuality Short Story