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French Literary Relationships Between Males and Females

he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...

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...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

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...

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...

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. ...

Female Development and the Impact of Gender Stereotypes

to be the coldly practical sex, while emotionality is considered to be a trait of the masculine gender (Holme, 1972). The people o...

Shakespeare's As You Like It and Gender

Gender is discussed in the context of this Shakespearean play. Gender issues are carefully evaluated. This twelve page paper has ...

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...

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...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' James Thurber's 'The Unicorn in the Garden,' 'The Catbird Seat' and Gender Conflict

In 5 pages this paper examines how gender conflict is presented in these stories with Hemingway seemingly supporting conventional ...

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...

Violence and Power in The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In this paper that consists of twelve pages the predominant thread of violence that keeps the power hierarchy intact in these nove...

Woolf's Orlando and Gender

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel is the focus of attention here. Gender is discussed in this context. Woolf seems to claim that gende...

African Women and their Changing Roles

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

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...

Saturday Morning Television Marketing and Gender Studies

In eight pages the gender views presented in Saturday morning television cartoons Muppet Babies, Captain Planet and Looney Tunes' ...

Modernism, Postmodernism, and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

the surface than was accessible through the conscious mind, and that there were ways to evoke feeling through words without flat s...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Oliver Stone's Film Natural Born Killers and Postmodernism

In seven pages this paper discusses how in 1994's Natural Born Killers filmmaker Oliver Stone employed postmodernist techniques. ...

Philosophy of the Enlightenment and Postmodernism and the Self Concept

that had to be made without conclusively knowing what the correct choices might be (Stack 162). Thus, it can be seen that the Enl...

Classification of Theatrical Production and Definitions of Postmodernism, Absurdism, Expressionism, and Realism

Various concepts pertaining to theatrical production are defined in a paper consisting of seven pages. Four sources are cited in ...

Postmodernism and White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty

In five pages this research paper examines the postmodernist views expressed in the novel The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty. F...

Postmodernism and Ariane Mnouschkine and Pina Bausch

discontinuity and fragmentation, as well as by an overall destructured and decentered subject (University of Colorado). H...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Postmodernism

In three pages this report analyzes the postmodern characteristics of these 1992 and 1994 films by director Quentin Tarantino. Th...

Design and Comparison Between Modernism and Postmodernism

Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...

Postmodernism and Great Britain

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

Jean Pierre Jeunet's 2001 Film Amelie from Montmartre, Feminism, and Postmodernism

known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...