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Gender: Nobody is Masculine or Feminine, 2004.
This paper looks at the definition of gender and masculinity.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, $ 23.95
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This article studies the works of Judith Butler and George Mosse in order to discuss a definition of gender and masculinity. The writer discusses that Butler has controversial theories about gender roles and the need to discard current concepts of sex and gender. In this paper, the writer looks at her views of feminist theory. The writer explains how Mosse looks at the development of masculinity from the mid-1800s.
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"Judith Butler considers herself primarily committed to feminist theory and believes that gender comes from performativity. She distinguishes performativity from performance by explaining that the former presumes a subject but the latter does not accept the idea of a subject. Butler does not believe in distinctions between male and female but rather that they are based on performativity. For instance she does not see such factors as the ability to become pregnant, as being necessary to define a woman. She points out that there are females very young ... "
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The Masculine vs The Feminine, 2002.
A look at the way John Steinbeck views male and female roles in his story "The Chrysanthemums."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper is on the short story of John Steinbeck's, "The Chrysanthemums". The blending of the characters, setting, imagery, symbols, and point of view all point to the theme concerning how Elisa at times wanted to be like a man, but then faded back into being feminine. Chrysanthemums are similar to this in that they are at times strong stalks, but when they are picked they are a feminine flower.
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Representations of Masculinity vs. Femininity in Newsweek Ads, 2000.
A look at how advertising in magazines can misrepresent women.
4,370 words (approx. 17.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 115.95
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This paper discusses the influence of media advertising with regard to representing male and female images. The author examines fourteen print advertisements from the November 29, 1999 issue of Newsweek: eight of men and six of women noting how women and minorities are represented.
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"It is a cliche to say that advertisements in women's magazines and pornography are sexist - and the normalizing influence of such media sources have been well documented. However, the pervasive sexism of advertising is not limited strictly to those venues in which sex and sexuality is an outright topic. Sexual roles and values are peddled to the American consumer in every magazine and mass media venture, even those as seemingly innocuous and nonsexualized as newsmagazines. In this paper I will examine fourteen print advertisements from the November 29, 1999 issue of Newsweek: eight of men and six of women."
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Masculinity and Femininity in "Twelfth Night", 2004.
An analysis of how sexuality and gender differences are presented by Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night".
2,179 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper examines how the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare, is concerned essentially with deception on various levels. It looks at how although deception is often a comic device, in this play it is often a means of deepening the ideas, allowing the audience to explore gender and sexuality, mainly through Orsino and the Viola/Cesario plot.
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"With the part of Viola, Shakespeare immediately presents the idea of gender confusion and interchangeability between the sexes. When the play was first performed, the cast would have been entirely male, so by the end of the first scene, the audience is aware that we have a boy playing a girl who is playing a boy on the stage. These levels of ambiguity suggest that gender roles will be important. Shakespeare then continues to explore this throughout the play, through the character of Cesario (Viola in disguise) and his relationships with other major characters such as Orsino and Olivia. Orsino sends Cesario to seduce Olivia on his behalf, and, unfortunately for the duke, Olivia falls in love with Cesario. The reasons for this are dramatised at the end of act one, scene five. Olivia asks Cesario to explain what he himself would do if in Orsino's position of lust towards her, so effectively asking his opinion of Orsino's technique and encouraging him to imagine that he loved her himself."
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Feminine and Masculine Views of Love in John Donne's Poetry, 2000.
1,770 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 57.95
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This paper contrasts John Donne's poems, "Break of Day" and "To His Mistress Going to Bed", which portray two very different themes on love and sexuality, one written from a feminine point of view and the other from a masculine point of view. The writer uses these two poems to prove that he was a talented poet, able to express one underlying theme in distinct and separate ways.
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"In Donne's poem, Break of Day, the author sympathizes with the opposite sex by using a woman?s ?voice? through the speaker. The reader is not subjected to any flowery images of feminine beauty or repetitive declarations of undying love. This poem reflects the early morning lives of lovers', and the feelings that this woman has as her partner prepares to leave; an interesting contrast to To His Mistress Going to Bed, which outlines the exact opposite experience of two lovers retiring for the evening. The first is about love and the agony of separation, the second about making love, and the excitement of anticipation."
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Feminine Masculinity, 2004.
An examination of the phenomenon of feminine masculinity as it is portrayed in Italian society.
7,598 words (approx. 30.4 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 166.95
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Italy is a cultural hub of gender identity where issues of feminism and masculinism have been deeply entrenched for many years. For centuries, Italy has been considered a more masculine country, though the majority of work documented related to masculinism actually is sparse. This paper discusses how issues of feminism and masculinity have surfaced in the workplace, where, naturally, access to issues, such as equal employment and technology, have surfaced. Gender inequality issues in Italy have, in fact, created a basis for the continuance of a feminism-masculinism dichotomy. These ideas and more are explored in detail in this paper.
Introduction
Masculinism
Italian Feminism
The Abortion Campaign
Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s
Mainstreaming Feminism in Italy
New Directions
Gender Mainstreaming
Future Trends on Gender Equality
Conclusion
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"In Italy today, a stereotype exists regarding feminism; women are considered as maternal in nature and the traditional role of ?wife and mother have predominated for years? (Rubin, 1998). This trend is not uncommon in many societies throughout Europe. Europe should not be sequestered however, the role of women has gradually attained significance throughout time. Almost no culture can attest to a period of time necessarily where the role of women and femininity predominated over those of men, in fact the majority of history has commentated on various women?s movements and efforts toward acquiring greater equality in the face of strong masculinism and male domination. With the exception of course, of the few small maternal societies where women seem to be at the forefront of all political and social venues."
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The Masculine Appeal, 2001.
This essay makes a comparison of the two different toy/game figures Barbie and "Tomb Raider"'s Lara Croft.
1,980 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay is comparing the masculinity and femininity of two female figures Lara Croft and Barbie, describing the two figurines in detail. The author provides background information how each figure was created and their proposed purposes and how their images change through the years. The differences all touch on the fact that Lara is masculine and Barbie is feminine. The author concludes with decision that present day society finds a masculine female more appealing than a feminine woman.
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"Barbie and Lara are both beautiful and have great figures, but Lara still gains the attention. It is Lara?s attitude, the way she is portrayed as a person. Lara has those masculine characteristics that are more appealing in today?s society than a weak, panicky female. Lara Croft can take care of herself. Males are attracted to this because Lara is strong, independent, and beautiful. A woman that does not need protection from a male figure is a wonderful dream for men. Females are attracted to Lara because she can hold her own, she is strong and independent, no help needed from a male partner."
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Snow White and the Bounty Hunter, 2001.
A comparison of the masculinity and femininity roles of two female characters from the movie "9 to 5".
1,395 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 46.95
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This essay compares the masculinity and femininity of two female characters from the movie "9 to 5". The characters are Violet played by Lily Tomlin and Judy played by Jane Fonda. The essay starts off with in simple layout of the movie and the characters. The next part talks about the similarities and differences of the two characters. The author explains how one character is more masculine and the other is more feminine and relates what these roles mean in real life and how masculine women differ from feminine women.
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"What would it say to the women in society if a very feminine-like person was a top executive, the makers probably asked themselves? It would make all of the homemakers, the masculine and feminine, go out and think they could get a job and rise to the top. Moreover, having a feminine-like person as an executive, according to the filmmakers would be very bad. I am very glad to see that today, women are not thought of as just homemakers anymore. People are beginning to value women at home and in the workplace. The only question I want to ask is what took so long?"
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"Jane Eyre": Cultivating The Feminine as Feminist, 2002.
Shows how Charlotte Bronte uses images of nature in the feminine form to present a feminist novel in "Jane Eyre".
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This paper reads Jane Eyre with attention to the symbols of Nature and the natural relations that Jane assumes within the natural world. Bronte offers the moon as a feminine symbol in the story, one that reappears as a source of light and inspiration for Jane, thus presenting the moon as a feminine Ideal. With this symbolic representation of nature in gendered terms, Bronte provides a feminist novel, where the prominent feature of Jane's character is her independence and personal will and is symbolized in a feminine ideal of Nature.
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Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique", 2005.
This paper examines Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique" and reviews the history and philosophy of the "feminism" movement in the U.S..
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper explains that, after World War II, Betty Friedan in her renowned book "Feminine Mystique" urges that women should not have to live up to any sort of image, real or imagined, but should learn to live their lives in a way that provides them with satisfaction. The author points out that Friedan, in essence, was a pioneer only in the sense that she brought up-to-date what had been going on for nearly a century; she put her finger on the feminine malaise. The paper relates that Friedan's closing chapter, dealing with self-realization, has been achieved because today women are marrying later, not dropping out of school to marry and bear children, restricting the number of children, often postponing childbirth in favor of a career and the glass ceiling, while not totally shattered, has severe cracks in it.
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"However, before celebrating true gender equality, one should look back again at Ms Lerner's letter and her complaint that feminism is passing African-American (and by inference other minority) women by. There are few minority women who have made it to, or near, the top in American business- in advertising, in magazine editing, in publishing romance novels, and certainly in the movies, on records, and on TV. But, even on television, there are still many blanks which seem reserved for white women- very few minority anchors (except in those metropolitan areas where viewers need to be attracted- areas like Los Angeles and new York, Houston and Phoenix. What's more, the decision makers and producers who hire minorities- or don't hire them- are mainly white, with the obvious exception of Spike Lee. There are no major leaders of any woman's movement who is black or Hispanic, even though there are some high-ranking minorities on Clinton's Cabinet, and, until her defeat in 1998, there was a black female senator from Illinois. Yes, there are two women on the Supreme Court (but their pol9tics tend to cancel one another out)."
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"The Feminine Mystique", 2002.
A reader's review and response to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" dealing with the feminist movement.
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Arguably the landmark book for the women's movement within the Twentieth Century, Betty Friedan's publication of "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963 investigated the role of women in society. Friedan's views, which have since become a key element in directing modern feminist theory, were revolutionary at the time and helped promote a better understanding of the then- current roles that women were required to play in society. This paper shall explore "The Feminine Mystique" and address Friedan's views concerning women, as well as provide a personal response to this book.
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Hemingway?s Masculine Opiate, 2004.
A look at the portrayal of masculinity in the literature of Ernest Hemingway.
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines how one of the central ?problems? Ernest Hemingway struggled with as an author was the question of how it was possible for an artist to be a man, as Hemingway defined true masculinity, and, at the same time, still function as an effective artist and writer. It looks at how, at the time, art was associated with femininity, partly because it enabled the reader to escape from real life and the real world into the constructed world of fiction and how war and the outer, outdoors life of a man was associated with what was good, masculine, and thus antithetical to being an artist in the traditional sense. It explores how Hemingway managed to bridge this perceived ideological gap by lauding heroes, such as Cayetano of ?The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio,? who are stalwart in the face of pain, yet who still find a means of escape from the overwhelming shadow of reality.
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"Hemingway stated that he used his style to convey a truth to the reader, but truth was not synonymous with reality. Another, more perspicuous critic of the Hemingway style Alfred Kazin noted that, in Hemingway,? death might yet be recorded in the sentient flesh?as intimate a sensation as eating, drinking, and lovemaking. But the ?true sentence? could be recognized only if it had the right cadence and the tease of subtlety in some culminating word,? that conveyed truth rather than reality ?straight up.? Kazin stated that Hemingway used his style, not to be realistic, but rather ?Hemingway wanted to unsettle the reader just enough to make him sit up and notice a different way of saying things....? a different way, but not necessarily a more ?realistic? or true-to-life way of seeing things."
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Feminine Stereotyping, 2002.
Examples of feminine stereotyping in the popular TV show, "The Simpsons".
3,500 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper concerns instances of feminine stereotyping in "The Simpsons". It covers Marge, the dutiful wife; Patti and Selma, the spinster sisters; and Lisa, the overly moral daughter. Conclusions about each woman and her stereotypes are supported by several examples that have been drawn from episodes from several seasons. Quotes are plentiful. This paper supports the claim that "The Simpsons" provide likeable stereotypes that women can identify with.
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"?I need some liposuction, just enough to make me attractive to this man,? said Marge Simpson. (?Large Marge?) This instance is just one of many in the long running animated series The Simpsons?, which showcases a particular stereotype of women. Although there are undoubtedly many women who share Marge?s fears, most will not resort to such extreme measures as plastic surgery. So despite the fact that most women will probably not go the same route as Marge, they can and will empathize with her character. By providing a likeable stereotype with which women can identify with, The Simpsons? manages to entertain people and ease some of the painful memories women carry of times when they too have been pigeonholed into a particular role."
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The Heroic Warrior in Masculine Stereotype, 2005.
Examines how the metaphor of the heroic warrior is reflected in contemporary masculine behavior.
1,732 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The heroic warrior is a metaphor for describing aspects of the stereotype of masculinity. If a warrior is defined as one who is engaged or experienced in war, then it is easy to see the truth in this metaphor. The paper explains how this image is reflected in modern society, after examining the basic "Nature vs. Nurture" philosophy.
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"Today's job market leaves many men struggling to restructure their sense of masculinity. As two-income households become more commonplace in American culture, women are taking many high-growth jobs. At the same time, many traditionally male-dominated industries are in decline. These elements are detracting from a key element that anchors men's identity: his job. While many see this as a positive development toward equality, it can cause an identity crisis in many men."
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Shakespeare?s Feminine Evil, 2004.
A review of Shakespeare's "King Lear" and "Macbeth", focusing on the feminine evil.
2,360 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper discusses two of Shakespeare's plays that portray evil female characters, "King Lear" and "Macbeth". The paper describes the daughters in "King Lear", Goneril and Regan, as ungracious and self-centered and capable of great evil. The paper contends that this notion of the independent, aspiring woman is further emphasized in the calculating, power-hungry character of Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth". The paper claims that, with these strong characters, Shakespeare is expanding the role of women by recognizing them as capable of the same desires and motivations that inspire men. These images of women not only contrast the traditional image of the medieval damsel in distress, but they mortify and embarrass their male counterparts.
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"That King Lear could have two daughters so dissimilar from Cordelia is an issue that Shakespeare explores within this family dynamic. The contrast between their affection for their father only intensifies King Lear?s awful mistake. It is important to note that all of his daughters violate traditional expectations in one way or another. Clearly, Cordelia?s recalcitrant answer is the least offensive of these violations--but it is the action that moves the entire plot of the play. We know that she loves her father, which makes Goneril and Regan?s speeches so hard to swallow. The most despicable aspect of Goneril and Regan?s evil is the fact that they seem to have no love or respect for King Lear as a father, a man, or a king. Clearly, they have no interest in him as soon as they acquire their inheritance."
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