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Gender and Sexuality in the Victorian Age, 2005.
This paper discusses gender roles and sexuality of the Victorian Age as presented in literature.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper analyzes the gender roles and sexuality of the Victorian Age as confronted in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The White Heron" and Kate Chopin's "At the Cadian Ball" and "The Storm". The author points out that the character development of the character Sylvia's sexuality in Jewett's tale can be compared with that of the character Calixta in Chopin's gender role allocations. The paper relates that both women characters challenge the societal norms of their time period, questioning the stereotypes for women within Victorian society.
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"This literary analysis seeks to understand how gender and sexuality create conflict within the story "The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett and the two stories: "At the Cadian Ball" and "The Storm" by Kate Chopin. By analyzing the character development of Sylvia in Jewett's tale, one can compare and contrast her sexuality with those of Calixta in Chopin's gender role allocations. In this manner, Calixta seeks to venture out of traditional modes of female sexuality, as does Sylvia, but both women take different paths in their sexuality. In this analysis, both women challenge the societal norms of their time period, questioning the stereotypes for women within Victorian times."
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Gender of Sexuality, The (Pepper Schwartz & Virginia Rutter), 2001.
Role of gender in human sexuality. Authors employ social constructionist view, rather than biological differences.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"In The Gender of Sexuality, Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter delve into the influential role of gender in human sexuality. Unlike the essentialists who use biological nature to explain the differences between male and female sexual behavior, Schwartz and Rutter adhere to the social constructionist view (22). In the social constructionist perspective, gender is a social construct that reflects the interaction between biology and sociological factors such as class, culture, race and the individual (Schwartz & Rutter 3). One of the key questions explored in this book is why gender exerts such a great impact on human sexual behavior (Schwartz & Rutter 212). Even though men and women are biologically different, their sexual behavior is not consistent across societies and time periods. The evolution of social institutions clearly plays an important role in .."
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Gender and Sexuality in Film, 2004.
An analysis of the issues cross dressing films raise about gender and transgendered identities.
3,384 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper examines how issues raised by cross-dressing and transgender identities in film are largely dependent on the way in which they are treated. It looks at how the mainstream cross-dressing comedy finds reasons to dismiss the potential danger of cross-dressing, while independent and foreign films such as "Ma Vie en Rose" and "All About My Mother" tend to offer a representation which is crude and possibly more accurate.
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"Tootsie also highlights the way in which women are treated in the workplace, as he learns submission as an actress who has to obey. He used to be hard to work with as an actor but as Dorothy Michaels, he has the door shut to his face by the director and is also refused a drink when the director just says 'no, no, she's fine'. Moreover, he says that he would hit the director if he wasn't dressed as a woman, which points out to the social boundaries and expectations of what a woman should do and should not do, mainly that women do not hit and men should not hit women."
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Gender and Sexuality Differences, 2008.
This paper studies the book 'Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps' by Barbara Pease and Allan Pease and looks at the gender issues raised.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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The writer of this article notes that in 'Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps', Barbara Pease and Allan Pease contend that these commonly observed social idiosyncrasies actually stem from profound differences between the sexes going as deep as brain chemistry. The writer points out that despite the obvious humor in their title, Pease and Pease have a serious message: men and women are different, in very regular ways. The writer notes that most men have a much better spatial orientation than women. They can translate the abstract lines and symbols on a map into a clear understanding of where they are going. By contrast, the writer points out that women are oriented to multi-dimensional cues such as landmarks that men often overlook. The writer concludes that while this book is intended for the general reading public rather than being a narrowly scientific treatise, there is a good deal of information, and the humor involved makes it a highly readable, genuinely enjoyable study.
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"On the other hand, women's approach to language is indirect and based on suggestion rather than the blunt, yes-and-no style that men favor. Unfortunately, because most individuals assume that their own communication style is consistent with what everyone else does, men and women often fail to communicate.
"Pease and Pease begin by addressing a difficult issues they must confront, the conflict between their research and current social movements. They state bluntly that they are addressing issues of science, not social or political questions."
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Gender and Sexual Inequality, 2007.
Looks at gender and sexual inequality in the workplace.
2,890 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 85.95
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This paper explains that gender and sexual inequality in the workplace is a very important aspect of modern American sociology today and asks why this situation exists today. The paper then presents a literature review and a list of various positions in a fictitious banking institution to show these disparities related to sex. The author concludes that the main culprit is the patriarchal system, which has been in existence in the United States since its earliest days.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Discussion of Findings
Conclusion
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"Another area of concern is politics, especially as it relates to the status of women in the world of employment. For many years, beginning roughly with the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which mandated "equal pay for men and women doing the same work," employers have utilized special rules regarding appropriate positions and pay for women, such as "formal and informal restrictions on positions, separate male and female sections in help wanted ads, differential pay scales for men and women in the same job (and) pay scales set in accordance with the gender composition of jobs." "
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Victorian Age, 2005.
This essay looks at the Victorian age view of the connection between Victorians and God.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper responds to the idea that the lines of connection between the Victorians and God had broken down so that God himself seemed to have slipped away from where he used to be. The writer uses the beliefs of Oscar Wilde, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Robert Browning as writers who reflect this idea in some degree and whose works react to the attitudes of their time and so comment on them.
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"During the Victorian age, writers of various sorts begin to see the period as one in which the lines of connection between the Victorians and God had broken down so that God himself seemed to have slipped away from where he used to be. The view was that He no longer inhered in the world as the force binding all men and things together. The belief was that He could only to be experienced negatively as a terrifying absence, leaving man "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born." This had the effect of leaving society in a state of disconnection: between man and nature, man and man, and man and God."
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Literature in the Victorian Age, 2002.
A discussion on the difference between appearance (how we learn about things through our senses) and a deeper reality, using George Eliot?s 1859 Adam Bede as a reference.
1,955 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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The following paper examines how Charles Darwin?s discoveries had a substantial effect on the writers of his age. This paper discusses literature of the Victorian age focusing on the importance of the senses, when reading books from this era. The writer discusses the ways in which important authors of this era were fascinated by the ways in which their characters and themselves were linked to the world through the use of their senses and that sensory information could be counted upon to be reliable in a way that few other things might be in a world in so much flux.
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?The world of Victorian writers and readers was one whose epistemological and physical borders were each day being pushed further back. For those living in such times the choices were to sink into a reactionary railing against such change or to embrace it ? and the most direct way to embrace it whether in science or art of simply in life was to walk through the world with one?s senses entirely and absolutely engaged, George Eliot?s 1859 Adam Bede is very much a work of Realism and in it we see the author?s warning that while fuzzy Romantic writers might think that could discern the true nature of a person simply through the act of observation, the Realist novelist and reader were not so easily fooled.?
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Sexuality, Gender and Family, 2005.
This paper offers an analysis of implications for the issues of sexuality, gender and family.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This ten page paper examines Andrew Greeley's contention that American society has become increasingly permissive and saturated with sexuality. The writer maintains that his contention can be confirmed by anyone who watches television for ten minutes or walks down a city street, for positive concepts of gender roles and attitudes about family are being undermined by pervasive sexual content in the mass media and by a prevailing unwillingness to acknowledge the implications of sexual permissiveness.
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"Andrew Greeley's contention that American society has become increasingly permissive and saturated with sexuality can be confirmed by anyone who watches television for ten minutes or walks down a city street. Positive concepts of gender roles and attitudes about family are being undermined by pervasive sexual content in the mass media and by a prevailing unwillingness to acknowledge the implications of sexual permissiveness. The writer agrees with Greeley about the pervasiveness of sexuality and shares his perspective that society has become increasingly permissive. The writer also agrees with Gudorf, for ... "
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Sexuality and Binary Gender, 2005.
This paper examines what factors are responsible for gender.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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The paper deals with the question of whether environment or nature defines sex and explains that it is impossible to know. The paper discusses that certainly there is compelling evidence against either of these factors being totally responsible for gender. Gender is something that a person feels--it is not defined by how a person appears. The paper emphasizes how even then, a person only ascribed themselves an emotional gender based on traditional assumptions about the binary gender. The paper concludes that with the abolition of these traditional assumptions, gender, in a way, has become obsolete.
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Sexual and Gender Differences, 2006.
A discussion on sexual and gender differences with regard to love and intimacy.
2,421 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper examines the basic nature of sexuality in the world throughout societies with special attention to the modern world. It provides a description and psychoanalysis of sexual preferences, with proper interpretation of those preferences and behaviors.
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"In modern Western democracies, marriage is basically assumed to be founded on the cherished concept of romantic love. Furthermore, persons in modern, industrialized nations strongly believe that the choice of a mate should be left to the individual. It comes as a shock to many people in these Western nations, then, when they discover that this revered concept of romantic love is almost wholly unknown in most cultures and is considered laughable or self-indulgent in many other societies (Robertson, p. 251). In most traditional or developing societies, marriage is viewed upon as being a pragmatic economic arrangement or a matter of family alliances (Robertson, p. 251). Love has little, if anything, to do with it. "
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Sexual and Gender Disorders, 2006.
This essay briefly discusses sexual and gender identity disorder.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper briefly describes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for definitive diagnosis of gender identity disorder. The paper also discusses the psychoanalytic perspective of the disorder as well as possible biological correlations related to sexual orientation.
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"Sexual and gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, is a disorder in which the individual strongly identifies with the opposite sex. It is a disorder primarily because of the significant physical (actual) and psychological (perceived) disparity existing within the individual, leading to psychosocial distress. The disorder can manifest during childhood or adolescence. Subjectively, this may be described as a "man (or boy) being trapped in a woman's (or girl's) body" or vice versa. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) diagnostic criteria requires four or more conditions to be met."
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Roles, 2002.
This paper discusses in depth the social construction of sexual orientation and gender roles.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 80.95
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It discusses biological, psychological, and sociological opinions of this theory, and concludes that all elements of sexual orientation: biological/genetic, psychological, and socially constructed, are essential to the way in which it operates in Western society, and that growing tolerance for minority groups and opinions will increase the acceptance of "sexual deviants."
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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Revictimization, 1992.
A proposal for a study to determine if there is a relationship between the experience of sexual harassment and the experience of sexual revictimization.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 31.95
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"Sexual Harassment and Sexual Revictimization
Background to the Study
Over the last two decades, research studies have documented significant rates of child sexual abuse among both female and male children. Estimates for female children under the age of 18 who have experienced at least one incident of abuse ranges from 1 in 4 to 1 in 2.5 among nonclinical samples (Kohn, 1987; Wyatt, 1985). Estimates for male children are approximately 1 in 8.
There are a number of effects that have been associated with childhood sexual abuse, including psychological, sexual, and interpersonal difficulties (Briere, 1992). One additional problem that has been associated with early abuse is sexual..."
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Cross-Cultural Gender and Gender Relations in Horticultural Societies, 2002.
This paper examines the gender roles in horticultural societies.
1,990 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper shows the difference that agriculturists, sedentary lifestyles, and social differentiation made in gender relationships.
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"The first evidence of agriculturists, sedentary lifestyles, and social differentiation that archaeologists and anthropologists have distinguished come from groups termed Horticulturists. Though the past record remains relatively scant in regards, anthropologists have used existing ones as a locus of study and interpretation. More numerous than surviving hunter-gatherer groups, horticultural societies also show an incredible range of gender diversity between groups, more numerous, in fact, than any other extent societal model. The quantity of studies that has come as a result of this are astounding. Those done in the area of New Guinea alone, home to at least two hundred different horticultural societies, provide ample evidence to add weight to the debate of nurture over nature, by sheer examples of the differences in living and understanding gender roles in such a relatively small and homogenous environmental area. "
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Gender Issues and Third Gender Problems, 2002.
A look at how transsexuals fit into society.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper discusses gender from anthropological perspective and finds out how transsexuals are treated in different societies of the world. While males and female may fight each other over who is stronger, they are the fortunate ones for they belong to two accepted genders but for transsexuals adjusting to the norms of restrictive societies may not be easy as they are not considered a part of the social fabric in many cultures of the world.
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