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Emma and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...

Gender and Film Dangerous Liaisons

her moral virtue and the sanctioning of social conformists.. The story is set in France during the 1770s, a time often associat...

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and Gender Roles

implied that she marries him because he is wealthy and has much to offer her. That she is in love is made clear, but there is alwa...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

Cultural Interviews

to ever get myself in that situation. #2: Sex is an extension of love, and love can only occur when two people are in a committed...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Gender Criticism and Hand To Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...

Fairytales and Gender Roles

In five pages classic fairytales are examined in terms of their portrayal of conventional gender roles with the views of anthropol...

Marriage in the Literature of the English Restoration

In six pages this paper discusses how marriage and the juxtaposing of gender roles are featured in the English restoration works i...

Anthropological Analysis of the 1992 Movie City of Joy

In five pages gender roles, subculture, cultural change, and ethnocentrism concepts are considered in this anthropological analysi...

John Schlesinger's Film An Eye for an Eye and Gender Roles

In five pages the portrayal of gender roles in this 1995 film is discussed. There is no bibliography included....

Andrew Cherlin's Introduction to Public and Private Families

we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...

Gender Roles and Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

Status and Change in The Family by Pa Chin

In five pages this paper examines how this text promotes the notion that change regarding gender role perceptions begins within th...

Comparing and Contrasting Patterns of Communication in Films Cousin, Cousine, and Cousins

In twelve pages the communication patterns exhibited in the French film Cousin, Cousine and its American counterpart Cousins are c...

Gender Role Shifts and Betty Friedan

In five pages this commentary examines the contributions of Betty Friedan in terms of gender role identification shifting with bot...

Humanist and Existentialist Learning Development Compared

The learning theories of Erik Erikson, Victor Frankl, and Carl Rogers are compared in eight pages in terms of learning experience...

A Study of Gener Issues in 'The Birdcage'

This paper comprised of 25 pages compares and contrasts the portrayal of homosexual men and their defined gender roles with realit...

Humans and Sexual Development

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of gender roles upon human sexual development. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Culture of Contemporary Greece

In ten pages this research paper examines modern Greece's culture in a consideration of tradition, ritual, religion, language, eth...

American Popular Culture and Gender Roles

In five pages this paper discusses how gender roles are created by and are reflected in advertising, popular culture, and educatio...

Comparative Analysis of Russia, Mexico, and Nigeria

the principle of direct election into the Legislative council" (O., 2002; history.html). There appears to be little information wh...

Talking 9 to 5 by Deborah Tannen

In five pages Tannen's text is summarized and analyzed with support for her assertion that gender styles of communication has prof...

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang and Cultural Illusions

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which this play reflects Eastern and Western philosophical conflict are examined in a...

A Critique of Marriage, Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

Othello, Role of Gender

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Othello" and the role of gender, race and class. Five pages in length, four sources are cited....

'My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson Analyzed Psychologically

In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...

Industrial Revolution and its Social Impact

In eight pages this paper assesses the societal impact of the Industrial Revolution with gender and family roles among the topics ...

Gender Identity: Nature or Nurture

on triggering biological development. The researcher maintained that for males, "the biological cause of... putative homosexualit...