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'The Tiger's Bride' by Angela Carter

Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...

Changing Gender Perceptions in Great Britain from 1865 to 1915

In five pages this paper discusses social pressures, imperialism, and increasing nationalism as causes of changing gender percepti...

Gender Inequality: Created By Social Institutions

119), including how girls play as compared with boys, friendship patterns, extracurricular involvement, cross-gender orientations ...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

Social Construction, Social Shaping, and Technological Determinism

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

Money and Erhardt Theories on Gender

and Erhardt studied a group of girls who had been wrongly identified as boys at birth, and originally raised as boys. They stated ...

Gender And Socialization: Nature Or Nurture?

in the field of child development have consistently found that this incongruous approach parents have toward their children begins...

A Review of The Role of Women in Human Evolution

occurred in humans as a whole over time. These changes included an increase in brain size, changes in teeth, a transition from wa...

Feminism and Ursula K. Le Guin's, Sur

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

Othello and Gender Roles

rebellious for "she chose the man who she wanted to marry and felt it unnecessary that her father intervene in their relationship....

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

Gender Norms in American Society

the role of aggressor. Kimmel (2000) has observed that all cultures share the concept that men and women are different, and that...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

Gender Identy as Affected by the Media and Video Gaming

A 16 page essay exploring gender roles as they are affected by the media and by video games. These influences promote aberrant vi...

Romance, Desire and Social Norms

than she is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball ...

Gender Roles and Society

women have taken on more responsibility. There are many reasons for this lack of change on the part of the male species. For on...

Education Gender Inequities Proposal

male (NEA, 2001). That is a vast discrepancy and one children are certainly aware of. Recent studies have shown that teachers ten...

The Dream of the Red Chamber and Gender

men have very similar qualities to one another and the women also share similar features but may be split between two prototypes a...

Male Gender Role Definition and Understanding

In five pages this paper examines how male gender roles are defined in a consideration of The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarc...

Literature and Gender Issues

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of Salmon Rushdie and Conan Doyle in respect to gender roles. The concept of...

Alcestis by Euripides

In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...

Gender Theory Illustrated in Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill uses disruption in gender to bring into focus the repression of gender roles in the larger society. ...

Gender Relationships Across Cultural Lines

Few things have changed as much as gender roles and expectations in the 20th century. This paper examines ideas on gender among va...

African Women and their Changing Roles

people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, sh...

Advertisements and Gender Roles

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at gender roles as they appear in advertisements. Two classic ads for Coke and Pepsi ar...

Two Novels and Gender Roles

This paper pertains to "We So Seldom Look on Love," a short story by Barbara Gowdy and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a g...

Analyzing World Cultures and Gender Issues

much of her research on the importance of masculinity in Palestine, and how the Israeli occupation of their homeland has shaped th...

Comparison of Two longitudinal Research Studies

ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...

Working Feminism by Pratt

authors inquiry. This organization is something that provides a sense of place that even a nonfiction work can utilize to provide ...

Race and Gender As Social Life Influences

456). Boas stated that "The physical inferiority of the Negro race, if it exists at all, is insignificant when compared to the wi...