There are physical, emotional, and instinctive characteristics that clearly define the two. ... The majority of women and men just have characteristics that set them apart. For example, some feminine characteristics might be a woman's maternal instincts, sensitivity, ability to soothe, and her small frame. Some masculine characteristics would be facial hair, chest hair, deep voice, sense of roughness, and need to be strong. ... It almost seems as if society looked at these masculine and feminine characteristics and broke them down into roles and sociological ideals that are hard to escape...

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• Grade Level: High School

Chaucer portrays The Wife of Bath's physical attributes, saying: "Gat-toothed was she smoothly for to saye" (line ). ... Chaucer portrays her as a godly woman with characteristics like a small shaply nose, gray eyes, and a small, soft, red mouth "And she was cleped Madame Eglantine. / Ful wel she soong the device divine" (line ). ... As seen in the above characteristics that Chaucer uses to compare the Prioress and the Wife of Bath, the one is pious, moral, and innocent, as well as proper, and beautiful while the other is a sinful harlot, blunt, boastful, and unsightly. ... In using ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Society then socially constructs gender where it gives meaning, ideas and adds characteristics. ... This leads to the negative effect in their physical health, which includes their reproductive and sexual health. This increases emotional and physical abuse by their husbands and even in-laws. ... Nujood also encounters the physical abuse of her mother-in-law. ... Society then socially constructs gender where it gives meaning, ideas and adds characteristics. ...

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But the truth is that it is not so much the matter of physical appearance as the matter of one's psyche. ... However, gender is a distinct category that describes particular human characteristics. ... Gender, however, comprises two "sets" of social characteristics, which combine to create the categories of "woman" (girl) and "man" (boy). ... We tend to treat gender characteristics as natural - for example, the idea that "boys will be boys" suggests that the particular behaviour referred to is to be expected from male children. ... May or may not be transgendered.) 8)Intersexed, Hermap...

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• Grade Level: High School

(Parker I 1) She becomes accustomed to trading sex for security, a characteristic exchange it appears to her, within her society. ... The physical appearance of Hazel is a stereotype that all men subscribe too. ...

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The physical competency of the male led to his dominance in all situations and thus formed these roles. ... The husband, on the other hand, is described as having physical, not only mental, power. ... His physical supremacy enhances his authority in the marriage as well. ... The young wife realizes his physical power and his potential to do harm. ... The hand, through her imagining and thoughts, takes on animalistic characteristics. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The physical competency of the male led to his dominance in all situations and thus formed these roles. ... The husband, on the other hand, is described as having physical, not only mental, power. ... His physical supremacy enhances his authority in the marriage as well. ... The young wife realizes his physical power and his potential to do harm. ... The hand, through her imagining and thoughts, takes on animalistic characteristics. ...

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In addition, both religious and secular aspects of society place expectations on how women should act, modeling the characteristics of the Virgin Mary, as introduced earlier in the paper. ... This brings up another issue that exemplifies inequalities between the sexes: physical appearance. One major difference between the expectations of women in the past and present is the physical appearance. Emphasis has always been placed on physical appearance. ... In continuation, the stereotype for physical appearance of women is not healthy for female athletes. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Every model portrays a different characteristic through the pose they are in and the clothes that they wear. ... He is clearly chosen to model these clothes due to his physical perfection as seen in today's American culture. ... Another characteristic that seems to be necessary to be attractive according to these ads is being thin, in good shape, and not overweight. ...

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To fit the mold of a womanist, the character must possess many different characteristics, including humor, calmness, and intelligence. ... Although this character does not possess the same physical abilities (she walks with a cane and wobbles from side to side like a penguin) as some of the other womanist, Phoenix Jackson is a womanist through and through. ...

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But wife-beating was a characteristic aspect of conflicts in the marriages of the poor. ... For example Martin Luther said in 1524 that the women had less physical and moral abilities as the man and he concluded that the women should subordinate herself (vgl. www.asn-ibk.ac.at/bildung/faecher/geschichte/ maike/frauen/renvorwort.htm). ...

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A place where young men go to grow and develop into a man while not being in fear of exposing any "unmanly" like characteristics to the rest of society. ... The essay also reveals the violence exercised between Cadets.The freshmen are forced to endure many different types of sexual and physical harassment in order for these young men to reinforce the ideas formed by the public norms. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Others see not only the physical but also the social, emotional and intellectual differences between males and females. ... Commercials on TV show these same characteristics everyday. ... Traditional gender roles for women are nurturing, dependence, and emotional expressiveness, not physical strength or toughness. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Our society has yet to develop a term for a gender that is neither male nor female, a person whose characteristics are neither masculine nor feminine. ... From the start, she is uncomfortable acting weak or passive, especially in physical activities. ... A couple years after picking up riding she decides it is also important to her to be in excellent physical conditions. ... Another important lesbian trait that Stephen demonstrates is having the physical appearance of a man rather than a woman. ...

• Word Count: 2169
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• Grade Level: High School

However, the story itself presents an interesting look at one woman's struggle to deal with both physical and mental confinement. ... The wallpaper itself, which is intended to portray the characteristics of the ideal woman, is the narrator's source of madness. ...

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Ewell states, "The sense of physical, even sexual, release that accompanies her acquiescence to this nameless, 'thing,' underpins a vision of freedom that Chopin characteristically affirms as a human right-as natural as generation, spring, or even death," (109). ...

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One spread in Bazaar featured two women, one expressing more feminine characteristics and the other expressing more of a masculine persona. ... The beauty myth that women place themselves in, thinking that they need to measure themselves by their physical appearance, is what is keeping them in this category. ...

• Word Count: 1221
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• Grade Level: High School

Her lack of understanding for her sister causes them to quarrel and results in Bianca taking the physical worst of it, whilst Katherine is blamed for her belligerent nature. ... Yet they share the same characteristics that Shakespeare imparted onto many of his heroines. ...

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The men misuse their strength in the family, as well as physical strength to control the lives of the females. ... In other words, the actions of the men are more important than their individual names which generalizes the characteristics of men in the book. ...

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Arcite undergoes a great physical change due to his constant lamenting over his love, Emely. ... By telling different stories through different pilgrims Chaucer uses their attitudes and characteristics so that he may tell tales of many different varieties and styles. ...

• Word Count: 1605
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Women in The Winter's Tale The winter's tale was one of Shakespeare's last plays. As a typical tragicomic, the whole play is shaped into a two-part structure. The first part is the story about Leonte's jealousy which brings the destruction to his royal family. It is completely tragic ...

• Word Count: 2824
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...

• Word Count: 3020
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For years women have tried to overcome the sexist barriers of society. The industrialization of the United States opened a window of opportunity for women. The increased availability of jobs required fulfillment. Men could no longer fill all of the jobs available. Women became the answers. Fema...

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I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. ... The scene is set where there were buildings and roof tops which symbolizes hardness, coldness, both of which reflects the characteristics of men. ... Without having to watch what they say for fear of offending people's cultural sensibilities (which are created by males anyway i.e. supposedly for the female gender's own good... but it is for the excuse that men 'cannot control themselves when it comes to sex and lust, etc') And this is exactly what this young woman is doing, she ...

• Word Count: 4111
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• Grade Level: High School