The sound and the acting of the play was clear and very understanding and the overall production of the play was up to par. ... Overall, the sound of the play was pretty basic, just that it was performed with skill. ... Although my overall impression of the play was that it just wasn't the kind of play I would like to see again, I thought that it was an example of good theatre put together. ...
I feel this way because even though the magazine does have a greater appeal to women most of the time, Sports Illustrated overall has a greater focus on men. ... Although the views of Hearn, Young, and myself contradict in some aspects, overall the main points of the SI swimsuit issue all come back to one agreeable idea that the swimsuit issue is great. ...
"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener." This quote by George Balanchine exemplified his view on the significant role women played in the art of ballet. Balanchine is regarded as the greatest contemporary choreographer in ballet, a...
Since the beginning of time there has been a universal thought that man are superior to woman and such is the universal theme in Alexander Pope's, The Rape of the Lock. Although Pope ridicules women's actions and presents woman in a negative manner, he does it in such a humorous way that it may no...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an account of a mentally disturbed woman, Jane, and her husband's attempts to help her get well by convincing her that continual seclusion and constant bed rest is the only way to cure her psychological condition. The woman is then confined ...
Magazine Ad The magazine in which I found this ad was the August 2002 edition of Motor Trend Magazine. Motor Trend Magazine is oriented towards the male audience of all ages. Because the magazine has information on new cars as well as editorials on classic cars it reaches a wide range of male ...
Dissent always emerges among orthodox populations. However, when does innocent dissention, a natural phenomenon, become grounds for banishment? Is it just a matter of context and social status, or does gender play a more significant role? Anne Hutchinson was not the first to question Puritan doct...
The video Killing Us Softly described how the media shows female perfection. However who decided that what the media presents as "perfection" really is. The "perfect" models that the media present to us are usually airbrushed and changed to look better. Things are not always as they may seem or debu...
In the essay "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady, the author utilizes the art of rhetoric to convince the audience that 1970's wives have what she would consider a "difficult" life. Brady writes in a sarcastic tone when it comes to discussing a man's point of view and how easy it would be if she had a wif...
"The Plantation Mistress" By Catherine Clinton The Plantation Mistress focuses on the elite women living on plantations with twenty or more slaves in the seven seaboard states of the plantation South during the period between 1780 and 1835. Through the study of nearly 500 manuscript collections...
In the show "Reba" it displays different roles that gender plays in the media culture. The show goes against the norm in various ways. Reba the main character defies the traditional role played in most sitcoms. Instead of being the traditional well to do stay at home mom she is a divorced mother who...
In her essay Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde challenges the modern view on eroticism in a patriarchal society, and instead presents an unconventional view on this concept, eroticism-a source of female power. In addition to revealing what "the erotic" means to her, she also discu...
Women in Sports Women today have the most opportunities ever when it comes to sports. More and more organizations are being formed and college teams are being created. Things such as Title IX also help women to achieve success in the sporting world. I feel women should have the same rights as...
Lysistrata is a woman with an extraordinary mission of ending the Peloponnesian War. She persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers. This is a strategy used as a mean of forcing the men to negotiate peace. However, their strategy only inflames the batt...
Gender representation in the media has always been important for one to understand what it means to be male or female. Advertising, being one of the most powerful and influential means ever, has encouraged us to mould ourselves into this ideal vision of how men and women should exist in society. In ...
Women In the 1920's The 1920's was a big change for the American culture. A woman in the 1920's changed drastically. Starting with women's suffrage and the women's party in 1920, the major change in their family and home life, the change in their job and educational opportunities...
Women in Business As executives or business owners, women tend to run their businesses differently than men. Every 60 seconds a woman starts her own business. As of today there are over 9 million women-owned businesses nationwide. Women own almost half of the businesses in the majority of the Uni...
Women Gender, and Culture In todays society most people think that gender inequality is no longer an issue. Everyone believes that since there are a few womon holding high ranking jobs, and women getting PHD's in several differnent fields that the problem is gone. Overall, the rights and...
2 Usual gender rolls in the 16th century The gender rolls in the 16th century were "well-established rolls defined by a traditional culture" (Wrightson, 1982, p.90), so that the roll-relationships of each new couple were an unproblematic matter in this period. To the authors of conduct books in t...
In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, one of the main focuses is gender roles and their impact on the characters. In the Scandinavian society that the book takes place in, men are supposed to be in charge and to be responsible for their family. Women, on the other hand, are supposed to stay at home, tak...
After completing Jane Eyre I read through the different literary criticisms that I was provided and found one to be very appealing to me, this was the criticisms by Helene Moglen. In this criticism, Helene points out some events in Jane Eyre that I also found very interesting. Helene states how amaz...
Have you ever heard someone say "You throw like a girl!" or "Just man up."? Have you ever felt like you had to obtain a certain role in your life because of your gender? Have you ever been discriminated against due to something you said or did because it was not socially accepted by society due to y...
Anne Bradstreet was one of the few extraordinary females who earned a place with the male writers of the seventeenth century. Bradstreet's upbringing had a vast amount to do with the way she was educated. Her father gave her the advantage of good tutoring. Having open access to a library full of boo...
