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Gender Stereotypes from Infancy

author notes interestingly, though not surprisingly, that 90% of the people who buy greeting cards are women. That, right there, i...

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 ...

Shyness And Social Anxiety Disorder

contract, not smiling at appropriate times (Bressert, 2006). The incidence of shyness is much less than that of social phobia bu...

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...

Identity Issues and Gender

of philosophy, identity is a concept that goes rather deep. It relates not only to who a person is--his or her ethnicity, history,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gender Effects of Memory for Objects That Are Gender Biased

commonly associated with one gender or the other. It can be hypothesized, in fact that:...

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...

Leadership and Gender Differences

leadership, managers let subordinates know what is expected of them, and what they can hope to receive if they meet specific objec...

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

in subsiding; however, the modern age has finally brought a semblance of gender equality. However, many men, such as the diplomat,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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' ...

'The Butterfly and the Tank' by Ernest Hemingway

him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...

Don's Disability in Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe

In three pages this paper considers the blindness of protagonist Don Baker and how it prohibits his achievement of emotional indep...

Jill Character in Leonard Gershe's Play Butterflies Are Free

In three pages the characterization of Jill and her impact upon Don are analyzed within the context of the play. There are no oth...

African Women and their Changing Roles

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

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Minerva and nearly every other school child and household in the country are taught to revere Trujillo. Even with his well-known ...

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...

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...

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 ...