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?The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private", 2002.
A critique on this book by Susan Bordo that looks at how society has viewed the male body over the centuries, focusing on its coverage in the modern media.
1,440 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The book describes eras of media coverage regarding the male?s private parts as well as society's acceptance of the norm. While probing the male for,m the author seeks to prove that given the similar myths and pressures applied to men and women regarding their bodies, there are parallel effects on both the male and female mind. Bordo concludes that society, although a shift began in the 1990?s, has neglected the male body in film, literature, magazines and advertisements as it has never done with the female body.
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"Although, Burt Reynold?s appeared nude for the magazine ?Cosmopolitan? in 1972, the penis was hidden behind his hands. Brando in his tight undershirt in ?Streetcar Named Desire? or William Holden?s bare chest in ?Picnic? was the raciest exposure of the male body the public witnessed in film or media of any kind. Bordo points out that John Travolta was the first hunk to appear in briefs on-screen in ?Saturday Night Fever? (Bordo 18)."
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Female-to-Male Body Transformation, 2004.
A discussion of an early Buddhist doctrine in regard to the transformation of the body from female to male as necessary before enlightenment.
3,456 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 97.95
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As Mahayana shifted emphasis from Nirvana to the Bodhisattva path, there emerged sutras regarding transformation of female into male bodies as a prerequisite to reaching the later stages of Bodhisattvahood. This paper proposes that transformation of a female into a male body was an expression of the concept of emptiness and parts of the movement toward of etherealizing the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas. The paper suggests that the use of female body imagery is not necessarily a reference to human bodies at all, but an imagery of changes in the manifestation of consciousness of bodies, impermanence, and emptiness, which played such an important role in the early sutras.
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"We can consider Brahmacarya as an appositional concept if we consider that in one case emptiness is used to explain brahamacara and in the other case transformation is used to explain emptiness. They appear to talk about brahmacarya because they are concerned about impediments to celibacy. Viewed in this light we can get around the problem of why women would transform into males where they would have the added difficulties of brahamacaya. The two are simply different matters."
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The Male Body, 2004.
This article discusses theories of Susan Bordo regarding the penis and the phallus.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses theories of Susan Bordo on the male body. The writer discusses the penis and the phallus as symbols of male dominance. Further, the writer considers what it means to be female and have a female body.
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"Susan Bordo, author of 'The Male Body' offers her readers an analysis of many issues related to being male and having a male body. In the process, she also considers what it means to be female and to have a female body. In two sections of her book, Bordo also talks about men's insecurities about penis size. She makes the point that just as women are concerned about the appearance of their bodies, males are also concerned. Men like women have idealized standards ... "
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The Body and Western Christendom, 2007.
A discussion of the symbolic significance of the body for the societies of Western Christendom during the Medieval period.
2,014 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper looks at the significance of both the male and the female body to the societies of Western Christendom during the Medieval period. It discusses the body through the various stages of youth, manhood and womanhood, old age and finally death. It examines the medieval understanding and view of natural biological processes such as menstruation. The paper examines the medieval view of the 'eastern' man and discusses the views of emissions of the body, such as the body's smell and noise, with particular attention being paid to laughter. It also looks at the way that bodies are dressed and the use of perfume.
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"The body was highly significant in the societies of western Christendom during the medieval period and was "central to the process of social classification according to categories of age, health, purity...which were regulated through constructed categories such as stigma and gender". However, whilst ecclesiastical influence was total over all aspects of the body and its behaviour, the enforcement of canonical law must not be overstated, due to the obvious difficulties in policing such infractions of laws on sex and nocturnal habits. The church was also not as morally rigid as has been assumed by many, and in fact during the medieval period in western Christendom, the church deemed that it was preferable to tolerate "behaviour that they disapproved of but that they perceived might meet some wider social need", with such behaviour including prostitution, some kinds of extra marital sex and other casual sexual liaisons."
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder, 2006.
A study of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in males.
2,416 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper begins with a definition of body dysmorphic disorder and focuses on BDD as it relates to men. The paper continues to highlight muscle dysmorphia and the factors that contribute to the development of body dysmorphic disorder in men. In conclusion it explores treatment of the disorder.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Men
Factors that Influence the Development of BDD in Men
Treatments for BDD in Men
Diagnosing BDD in Men
Conclusion
Works Cited
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"Although body dysmorphic disorder was once mostly confined to women, the disorder is now extremely prevalent in males. According to Phillips & Castle (2001) recent studies have indicated that an increasing number of men are also dissatisfied with their bodies. One study even revealed that 43% of men were not satisfied with their bodies (Phillips & Castle 2001). In addition, Phillips & Castle (2001) asserts that percentage of males with a negative body image has tripled in the past 25 years. Research also reveals that men are just as likely to be dissatisfied with their appearance as women are (Phillips & Castle 2001). "
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Body Images in GQ and Vogue, 2008.
This paper discusses magazine body images focusing on the ideas of active men and idle women.
972 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that magazine advertisements employ a wide array of methods to catch the easily distracted eye and send, within the brief period in which the reader actually looks at the ad, sophisticated messages about body images. The writer analyzes the implicit body image messages present in two very different magazines--one for a male audience, the other for female readers. The writer points out that the central argument is that male ads usually focus on the man's functional worth, as a worker, driver, or the like, while ads for women normally emphasize the woman's beauty and aesthetic value. The writer concludes that the message portrayed in the ads is that the worth of a man's body is relative to its utility and functioning power while a woman's body is measured by the tyrannical criteria of beauty.
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Introduction
GQ Ads
Versace suit ad
The designer shirt ads
Women's ads in Vogue Paris
A. Dining woman ad
B. The "Mountain Woman"
Conclusion
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"The top half of this specific ad (GQ 219) advertises an expensive designer shirt and, at first glance, the dinner table scenario seems fairly ordinary. However, this seemingly inoffensive ad reveals the same characteristics as the ad mentioned above. In it, a chiseled-faced male is dexterously carving and arranging the meal's meat course. His skilful performance with the instruments sparks the admiration of his attractive companion, who sits close to him and stares at his working hands with unqualified admiration. In the bottom half of the ad, this same couple is seated in a car (this ad, too, advertises the same garment) and it is not surprising to see that the man is operating the steering wheel while his companion looks on. These are not, obviously, incidental poses, and the proclivity to focus on the body's functioning abilities: driving, working, cutting, rather than on its aesthetic characteristics is clearly discernable in a large number of GQ's advertisements."
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Gender Stereotypes and Body Image, 2004.
A discussion on stereotypes for body types as presented in advertising in Western cultures.
1,248 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines how the media?s influence in Western culture is pervasive and how, through magazines, television, and print ads such as billboards, advertisers have consistently adopted gender stereotypes in terms of body image and use these stereotypes to sell their products. It looks at how the stereotypical womanly ideal is slender to the point of looking unhealthy and how men are consistently presented with an overly muscular, perfectly lean physique. It considers the effects of such unrealistic stereotypical ideals and looks at the effects of the female stereotype on men and of the male stereotype on women.
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"The presentation of the ideal female stereotype also has effects in terms of eating disorders that are seen in parts of the world where this ideal predominates. Since the ideal presented is so far from normal, and can rarely be attained by healthy means, anorexia nervosa and bulimia rates have risen. The only way most women can approach this stereotype of is through starvation or disordered eating. Research (Botta et al., 2003) has shown that rates of eating disorders may be predicted based upon the magazine reading habits of the women studied. If subjects were repeatedly exposed to images of unrealistically thin models, prevalence of anorexia and bulimia was greater. ?Overall, magazine reading and processing accounted for?28.0% of variance for girls? anorexic behaviors?27.5% for girls? bulimic beahaviors?23.4% for girls? body satisfaction?[and] 41.6% for girls? drive to be thin.? (Botta, 2003). Ironically, men do not see thinness as the same prerequisite for attractiveness in women that women themselves do."
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The Female Body, 2003.
An examination of the effects of patriarchy on the female body and the internal experience of women.
3,094 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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Using Sandra Lee Bartky's theory of internalization, which is based on Michel Foucault's 'Panopticon' theory, this essay discusses quite complicated theories regarding the effect of patriarchy on a woman and her experience of her own body. This is written from a feminist perspective, but quite simply and passionately. The essay goes into much detail regarding the ways in which women internalize patriarchal standards and desires, so that women come to punish themselves for not living up to the male-imposed bodily standards of beauty. Foucault's theory of the Panopticon is only employed to demonstrate this 'internalization' process; the Panopticon is a prison where each prisoner is permanently visible. When one believes they are permanently on display, whether they are actually being watched or not, they will internalize the standards of the 'watcher' and self-monitor. This essay's contention is that the internalization of patriarchal standards of feminine beauty on women causes women much stress, pain and anxiety medically, physically and psychologically.
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"In contemporary patriarchal society, a woman lives her body from outside-in. She is perpetually conscious of how she looks to another, because she knows she is perpetually watched by a patriarchal Other, and it becomes her duty to stand outside her own flesh and monitor her body?s movements for him. A woman comes to watch herself as though she too were a patriarchal Other. She becomes both the seer and seen, the ?object of desire,? internalising his values regarding her body and making them her own values about her own body. Her embodied experience will reflect this knowledge that she stands always before his gaze and under his judgement; her body is not her own. Similarly, her own sexuality is not self-defined, and she will not experience herself as beautiful or sexual unless she complies with the patriarchal ideals of feminine beauty."
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Gender and Body Image, 2004.
Argues that the images of perfection that are disseminated by society are generally stereotypical images that reinforce gender roles of dominance and submission.
3,642 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 101.95
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The way in which society defines the structures and strictures of gender has developed in the last century into a field in which there is an abundance of textual dissertation concerning gender, identity, body image, and other issuances of definitional standards that often defy the status quo and change the way in which we think about what it is to be a man or woman. The paper shows that these essential qualities that define gender are harder to determine the more we explore the boundaries that have been set up, in many cases, as no more than cultural myths that represent the continuance of a socio-economic class system. One of these myths is the idea of the mythical body image, or the ideal physiological representation of a society in which gender lines are clearly defined in terms of male and female. This paper explores the idea of this image in terms of its contrivance, ramifications, social constructionism, and its support of gender stereotypes to provide an understanding of how our culture defines male and female images of perfection.
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"Myths traditionally focus on the superhuman or divine while providing a model of behavior for their consumer, who is more often than not encouraged by them to accept a sort of socio-economic status quo, along with a sense of diversion and the illusion that in escaping reality, the person buying into the myth is escaping the status-quo of an
economically oriented social class system. This particular diversion is carried on through time and changed, if slightly, by successive generations as the gradations of society change with time (although the continuance of myth is often retrogressive concerning the continuance of the society). Although the theme may only change slightly, the
presentation of a new myth within this traditional trope suggests other changes that are more important."
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Preferences in Body Figure, 2003.
A comparison between males and females from a psychological perspective.
1,243 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper discusses whether gender-related preference hold true. It then determines the perceptions each sex has of the opposite sex's preferences in body type. The paper discusses results from an online questionnaire relating to body type preferences and perceptions, which was answered by volunteers.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Method
Participants
Design
Materials and Procedure
Results
Discussion
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"In today's information age, we have been exposed to a successful marketing campaign by the fashion industry which makes being thin an ideal. The slim body type seen widely in advertisements and fashion magazines has become an idealised cultural norm (Gordon, 1988 cited by Lamb, Jackson, Cassiday, & Priest, 1993). It has been shown that women who represent the ideal feminine body type in American culture (such as beauty queens and models) have become thinner over the last few decades. The ideal figure is now below the actuarial norm (Lamb et al., 1993)."
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Masculinity and the First World War, 2008.
A review of Joanna Bourke's "Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War."
3,229 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 93.95
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The paper critically examines Bourke's "Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War", which analyzes how the idealized male form and notions of masculinity were impacted by the events of the First World War. The paper discusses the book's arguments, its strengths and weaknesses and how it was received by the academic community. The paper concludes that the book is a mild disappointment despite some undeniable strengths.
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"Bourke's book is chiefly concerned with how the idealized male form - vigorous, strong, assertive - and idealistic notions of masculinity were impacted by the events of the First World War; her conclusion is that there was as much continuity as there was change. For example, Bourke finds that the millions of British men who were maimed during the course of the great conflagration did not return home to a society which viewed them as passive or as weak because their bodies no longer measured up to the ideal male figure; instead, the society to which they returned viewed them (for the most part and at least initially until their status as warriors had slipped into the background) as objects of reverence and sympathy. On the other hand, those men who did not lose limbs in the war but returned home with the reputation as "malingerers" were held in contempt; in short, Bourke's book seems to argue that the idealized male body could be savaged in the most unsightly ways - but those men who had their physical beings damaged could still be viewed as men and as full members of the body politic insofar as they had honored their "masculine duties" on the field of battle."
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Math Achievement in African-American Males, 2007.
An analysis of the differences in mathematical achievement between African American males and White males.
5,741 words (approx. 23.0 pages), 44 sources, MLA, $ 138.95
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This paper focuses on mathematical achievement in African-American boys versus their white counterparts. It addresses risk factors such as family income, mother's education, single-parent households and a non-English primary language. The paper discusses the works of theorists Lev Vygotsky, Jerome Bruner and John Dewey regarding this issue.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
Theoretical Framework
Limitations
Literature Review
Summary of The Literature Reviewed
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"The African American male was not expected to achieve in educational areas of management and accounting studies evidenced in the statement related in the work of Dantley and Leonard (2006) who states that a participant related that: "I only indulged myself in my studies to the degree that I was satisfied that I could do math up to multiplication and division of fractions and decimals and it was good enough for me for what was I going to do. I wasn't going to be doing any math. To be a laborer, all it's going to require is to run a piece of machinery." (p. 42) additionally a participant stated: "We don't have no industry out there and the industry that is out there, they're not targeting the Black community and saying, "If you go and get more math, then I can guarantee you this." (p. 45) and finally: "I have hopes. My expectation is that (my son) will graduate from high school. If he doesn't, it's no big deal...My expectation for him is to probably be no worse than I was. Just to pass." (p.46) (Dantley and Leonard, 2006)"
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Male Teachers and The Effects of Female-Headed Households, 2002.
This paper attempts to answer the question of whether or not male teachers positively affect male students being raised by single mothers and vice versa.
2,795 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 83.95
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Via a literature review, personal interviews and extensive data analysis, this paper examines what effects the increase in female-headed households has on male elementary school teachers, particularly those in the primary grades. The paper additionally examines how male teachers construct their own masculinities on a daily basis, how they perceive their dramatic under-representation in the occupation and what meanings this arrangement has for them. Finally, it describes their feelings and ideas about the issue of increasing the number of males in elementary teaching, and whether or not they feel it is unfair for single mothers to place too much ?role model? responsibility on their shoulders.
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\"Some students go through their first six years of school without ever encountering a male teacher (Cohen, 1990). Because of the small number of male teachers, it is thought that schools do not offer boys enough models of male behavior. Today many boys, especially the sons of single mothers, lack such models in their lives, which has caused many single mothers raising boys to purposefully seek out elementary schools where their children can find male teachers, so that they will have at least one male role model in their lives. However the question remains as to whether or not male teachers are critical to a fatherless child?s emotional and academic development.\"
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How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently, 2002.
A review on Deborah Tannen's article on "How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently" which argues that males and females have different styles of communication.
730 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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The following brief review examines Deborah Tannen's article on "How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently" and asserts that the style of classroom communication supports how males learn rather then how females learn. This review argues that Tannen's argument itself is biased towards wanting to show an unfair situation for females.
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"Tannen makes some excellent points in this article. Considering the current focus on equal opportunity, the point that one situation for everyone is not necessarily the best way is an important one.
Tannen effectively describes some of the ways that males and females are different, showing how the classroom is tailored to the needs of males. In this description, though, there appears to be a bias. For example, debate and participation are only two aspects of the classroom. Other aspects include written tests, reading assignments and presentations to class. These aspects that may be more suitable to female learning are not discussed."
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African-American Males, 2005.
A research study concerning the high dropout rates for African-American males in secondary education.
25,320 words (approx. 101.3 pages), 50 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This is an in-depth research paper on the cause and possible cures for the pressing problem of high dropout rates in secondary educational institutions for African-American males. The paper points out that the problem is not only one of economic disruption, but one of human misery as well. In order to help further the reader's understanding of the effect of secondary education on the dropout rate of African-American males, the paper begins with a look at the history of educational equality and then goes on to look at the effect that the high dropout rate of African- American males has on society in general. The paper also explores the reasons that these young men drop out and possible measures that can be taken to help prevent them from dropping out. Hypotheses regarding what can be done to increase graduation rates among African-American males are presented and conclusions are drawn regarding these hypotheses, based on the literature reviewed.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Statement of the Problem
History of Educational Equality
Reaping the Whirlwind of African American Male Educational Failure
Going Beyond What to Why
Reasons for Dropping Out
Hypotheses
Literature Review
Prevention Measures
Other Sources of Information
Methodology
Findings
Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations
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"It is impossible to ignore the high dropout rates for African-American males. Whether it is an effect of other societal shortcomings or a cause of some is also at issue; probably, it is both a cause and a result. The phenomenon appears to be allied with vestigial racial attitudes that 140 years without slavery and forty years of increasingly far-reaching equality legislation has been able to do little to ameliorate. Much work has been done regarding the specific causes of the problem; as yet, relatively little work has been done in testing the efficacy of various potential prevention tactics. However, new approaches making educational institutions the lead actor in a raft of 'holistic' interventions may be the prime area for future concentration of both study and effort by educational institutions."
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