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Sociological and Biological Definitions of Sexuality

wonder that many are reluctant to place full responsibility for behavior and personality on genetics. Peele (1995) notes:...

Theme of Sexuality in Works by Sophocles, William Shakespeare, and Toni Morrison

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kate Chpin's The Awakening Compared

at an early age and was raised by a cold, unfeeling father. Edna lives in a world that has strictly prescribed social boundaries a...

Rubin's Thinking Sex

as people became increasingly hostile toward homosexuals. There were laws enacted which made homosexual acts between consenting ad...

Human Sexuality Theories

stop him from engaging in such behavior. As mankind has become more civilized, so to speak, they have become to be more educated a...

Sexuality as Depicted in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

specific to a time, place and social situation, in this case, a girls boarding school. Brodie believes that she is in her intellec...

Freud and Aristophanes Compared

was this very notion of instincts which led Freud to the form the idea of eros (Freud, 1989). Freud believed that all individuals...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

Metaphorical Uses of Hunger

female sexuality. In beginning this section of her discussion, Bordo turns to a Haagen-Das ice-cream ad. The banner for the ad s...

Anne Rice's Writings and Sexuality

extensively depicted in her early novels. Keller sharply points out that both the conservative subtext and the liberal text of Ric...

Psychoanalysis and Sexuality

the identity if an individual. Freud looked at the conscious and unconscious mind, arguing that the conscious mind was the small...

Sexuality and Young Women in Sleeping Beauty by Rosario Ferre and Wild Swans by Alice Munro

her to be a good school girl and she seems just about ready, at the beginning of the story, to break free from this. What happen...

Dreams and Infantile Sexuality According to Sigmund Freud

humankind has devoted centuries to finding an explanation for the phenomenon of dreaming. Ancient man no doubt perceived dreams a...

Medieval Concepts of Love, Sex, Marriage, and The Bible

This could be seen, for example, in the practices of the ancient Egyptians, whose culture remained stable for a long period of tim...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

Captivity of Women in A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Coopers 1826 novel "The Last of the Mohicans" he portrays the captivity of two sisters, Alice and Cora Munro during...

Sexual Trauma and Psychological Understanding Thanks to Sigmund Freud

later in life. This obvious connection to anthropology led Freuds predecessors to continue applying such a concept even as the fa...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

Sexuality as a Social Construct

In eight pages this paper examines the social construct of sexuality with ethnicity and class among the topics discussed. Nine so...

Sexuality During the 12th Century

practices were dictated by the church or by the state, there were certain rules and regulations which governed the act, and in fac...

Flaming Creatures, a Film by Jack Smith

clowning" (Hoberman, 1997, p. 42). In his critical history on underground film, Parker Tyler refers to Smiths acting as "sloughing...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

Connection Between Sexuality and Pop Music

many different perceptions of morality. Therefore, without necessarily discussing the morality aspects of sexuality in music, the...

Freudian Analysis of a Psychiatric Case Study

mind is comprised of Id, Ego and Superego. He is perhaps best known for his claims that psychoanalysis is the key to understandin...

Relationship Between Gender and Sexuality

legal gay/lesbian relationships contends that same-sex marriages do not fall into the traditional category of accepted matrimony. ...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

of the reading event" (Serafini, 2003). Further, each text has one main idea that "only competent readers have access to" and the...

Masturbation

form of sexual pleasure unlikely to result in a population increase (e.g. masturbation, homosexuality, oral/anal sex) has routinel...

Class, Race, Sexuality, and Identity

embraced and coddled when they are hurt. A boy may be given masculine toys and a girl given dolls. If a boy wants to play with dol...

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 ...