Essays on Sociology of Gender

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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

710

A Study of Tree Girls

2 pages / 905 words

“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

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Sexual Roles in Guests of The Sheik

3 pages / 1173 words

Gender roles and relationships in Islamic societies are best understood through historical and religious context. This is because social norms and customs that regulate the behaviours of Muslim men and women are rooted in sacred texts and pivotal events, that date back to the formative...

Gender Roles Literature Review Muslim

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What is Pink Capitalism and Its Representation in Giovanni’s Room

7 pages / 3178 words

The emergent evolution in the traits of human personality, both physically and psychologically created a new and unique dimension to extend the nebulous boundaries of exploration. While grouting the breaches that occurred during the understanding of the intricacies of man as a social animal, several...

Capitalism LGBT

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Same-sex Relationships as Depicted in Free Love by A. Smith and Hemingway’s Mr. and Mrs. Elliot

3 pages / 1351 words

In Ali Smith’s “Free Love” while traveling abroad in Amsterdam, a teenage girl is able to explore something she has never been capable of before, her sexual orientation. Whereas, in Ernest Hemingway’s “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot”, to society Cornelia and Hubert seem to be happily...

Ernest Hemingway Homosexuality

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The City of Ladies: Analysis of The Logic of The Created World

3 pages / 1538 words

Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies is a book of philosophical and logical refutations and arguments. It is a direct response to several writings in which the male authors make claims against women’s purity. These books, according to de Pizan, slander...

Book Review Society Woman

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Gothic Perception of Females in The Bloody Chamber

3 pages / 1386 words

The corruption of innocence and the gaining of experience are common aspects of Carter’s stories in ‘The Bloody Chamber’, which are applied to many themes such as sexuality in The Tiger’s Bride and The Bloody Chamber, self-awareness in Wolf-Alice and horror in the collection’s namesake....

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber Woman

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Female Experience and Feminism: Correlation

2 pages / 924 words

Most literary representations of the sexes include implicit and binary differences between women and men. Women are typically written as pure archetypes who strive to find constancy in their relationships. In contrast, men as seen as libertines who seek multiplicity, novelty, and otherwise rakish desires....

Book Review Human Sexuality Woman

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Eliza Haywood: The Rise of The Female Author

8 pages / 3441 words

The very form of the sentence does not fit her. It is a sentence made by men; It is too loose, Too heavy, Too pompous for a woman’s use Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your...

Literature Review Woman

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The Impact of Gender on Imposing Justice in Ancient Greece

3 pages / 1359 words

When two men confront similar situations and meet distinct fates, the perennial question emerges. Why does Orestes in Aeschylus’ The Eumenides win redemption, and Pentheus in Euripides’ The Bacchae die ignobly? Both address the same moral dilemma between condoning retributive justice and upholding social order....

Gender

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What Contemporary Women Are Capable of as Per Terry Pratchett

2 pages / 759 words

Women in classical literature have been characterized as the submissives who lack the intellectual substance for lead roles. As the generations evolve into the modern culture, hints of sexist ideals latch themselves onto societal norms. Women’s bodies are not their own, but property of another...

Literature Review Woman

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Analysis of Women in Aeneid

5 pages / 2070 words

Virgil’s Aeneid details the trials and tribulations of Aeneas and the Trojan people en route to Italy from Troy. The journey parallels the epic adventures of the Homeric hero Odysseus. Virgil borrows Homer’s narrative style and frames a story that pays homage to the founding...

Poetry The Aeneid Woman

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All a Woman Needs is to Be Beautiful: Analysis of Aeneid

4 pages / 1694 words

Admirable qualities of men in Virgil’s The Aeneid include bravery, honor, and courage, but a woman’s value is based less on their power, wit and brains and more on their beauty, or lack of beauty. There are many instances within The Aeneid where both male...

Poetry The Aeneid Woman

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Psychoanalytic and Feminist Approaches to "Sons and Lovers"

4 pages / 1834 words

Postmodernism was a movement which took place in the Arts from the 1930’s to 1980’s, which sought not just to act as a continuation of modernism, but to attempt to reform its modes, which had themselves become conventional, as well as breaking away from elite...

Gender Psychoanalysis Sons and Lovers