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Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel

to herself that the prince will love her more than "old Dame Gothel" (the enchantress). She asks the woman why shes so heavy: "T...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

History of Literature and Changing Character Gender Roles

around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...

Social Construction and Gender Roles

Smiler (2004) found that many of the socially constructed ideas about masculinity that are prevalent in American culture were prob...

Cultural Differences Between How Japanese and Americans Communicate

in which: "most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed...

Gendered Issue of Domestic Violence

independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...

The Wizard of Oz Film as Categorized by Rick Altman

adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...

Families, Gender, and Cultural Roles

paper, well examine the structural-functional paradigm and determine how it pertains to the role of gender in the family. Well the...

Gender Roles and the Mundurucu Culture

and status of the men and women were completely reversed: The men were confined to the separate houses in the village and the area...

Oedipus Rex, The Iliad and The Odyssey and how these works relate to Gender

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

Submissive Gender Roles in Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

Cinderella Contrasts and Conflicts in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

Essay on Hans Christian Andersen

were dashed when his voice began to change; however, an off-hand remark that referred to him as a poet inspired Andersen and he be...

Gender Roles and the Effect of the Great Depression

deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...

Ronald Koertge's 'Gretel'

in fact present an intriguing message to both female and male audiences alike. Indeed, Koertges choice of subject matter is intrig...

Storytellers Lewis Carroll and Charles Perrault

In five pages this paper discusses the complexities of the fairytales Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella, which makes them far mor...

Analyzing Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May

This 1988 text is analyzed in six pages and include the factors that fueled the enforcement of traditional and gender roles that r...

Epic of Gilgamesh and its Gendered Text

In 5 pages this epic is discussed in terms of the gender roles that the divine and mortal characters embody and the lack of female...

Gender and Racial Roles in Feminism and Women's Studies

This paper provides answers to eight questions relating to the nature of feminism. The author provides an outline as to the core ...

Women and the Concept of Gender in Paradise Lost

This paper looks at the conceptualization of gender within the context of Milton's Paradise Lost. The writer discusses some of the...

Brazil and Gender Roles

Gender is discussed in this context. Brazil is the country of focus and issues such as media, religion and relationships are discu...

Brothers Grimm's Fairytales and Sources

of what they called "folklore," or the oral tradition. One story says that they were the collecting agents for a friend who was g...

Narrative Fiction and the Portrayal of Female Characters

This paper considers how prose, drama, fairytales, and religious narratives portray female characters in 9 pages. Eleven sources...

Gender Roles During the Medieval Era

In seven pages this paper examines what influenced gender role interpretations during the Medieval period with the political power...

Lalla in Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this paper discusses the gender roles featured in this text with Grandma Lalla being the primary focus. There are n...

Gender Roles and the Petrachan Sonnets of Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth

This paper considers gender role concepts featured in the Petrachan sonnets 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus' by Lady Mary Wroth and 'As...

Chen Yuan-tsung's 'The Dragon's Village'

promising land reform has achieved a broad political peasant base. The Red Army is being recruited from Jiangxi. Chiang Kai-shek...

Feminism and Gender Roles in Archeology

This paper examines various tenets of feminist archeology. The author discusses how gender issues play a part in the field of arc...

Gender Roles and Advertising

In five pages this paper considers how advertising's use of stereotypes has contributed to the negative formation of gender attitu...