This McCarthyism value system was threatened with the first publicized sex change. "The big news in February of that year was the return to the States of first publicized sex-change operation. ... The women do not hesitate to trade sex for success or experiment with drugs. ... The film eventually concludes with Z-Man experiencing a drug-induced psychosis that causes him to kill several people and reveal his woman like breasts. Meyer's decision to give Z-man female breasts without a concise explanation allows the viewer to assume Z-man was a female or was taking female hormones. ...

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From the picture of Sandra Bullock to the article titles on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine, I could see how beauty was not on the inside, but solely on a need for recognition from the opposite sex. ... She is standing upright, pushing out her chest and pulling her arms and shoulders back to increase the size of her breasts making her breasts the main emphasis of the picture. ... While another title read, "87 Sex Secrets You NEED to Know". ... The sex article goes much further than appearance, by going into a relational sense trying to please men. ... There was one article that did not...

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Women are conditioned into dressing in a provocative manner revealing displays of various body parts of the women anatomy such as; the breast, thighs, legs, and behind. ... Sex sells in this society. ... The commercial is implementing the role of women as housewives as well as being sex objects because they are shown cleaning the balls in which it is making reference to the male's genitals. ... The commercial is implementing the role of women as housewives as well as being sex objects because they are shown cleaning the sports balls. ...

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The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gender sex roles of society. ... One must firmly agree that women are not only under represented in the media but the media reinforces prejudiced sex roles. ... It is also interesting to note that these women always have the perfect or "ultimate" bodies; they are well toned, and have a small waist with large spherically rounded breasts. ... Since majority of the media representations of women are sex based, men will continu...

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The nurse attempts to hide her sexuality, and the schizophrenic Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel, first brings the reader's attention to this denial in saying, "A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what otherwise would have been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it." ... Bibbit's absolute power over Billy is shown when Nurse Ratched, having caught Billy having sex with a prostitute, threatens to tell his mother. ...

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Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. ... Gender must not be mistaken with sex. ... What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to encourage in that child. ... Because it is generally accepted that there are only two sexes, society has created a two-gender model:...

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Venturing into new territory, Jess begins to take male hormones and breast reduction surgery, Jess finds that getting job becomes easier, but instead of making it possible for Jess to live an open life without deceit and lies, the sex-change further distances her from the life she truly wants. ...

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Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. ... "I pine and languish but he cares not whether I live or die--- If I see that thief of Govardhana that looting robber, that plunderer I shall pluck out by their roots these breasts that have known no gain I shall take them and fling them at his chest putting out the hell-fire which burns within me.... "If they see breasts and long hair coming they call it ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate