This also shows that there was interaction between the communities and they most likely shared same cultural influences such as art and trade. ... The pronounced female formations depicted art and a symbol of fertility and productivity of society especially female gender. ... She is a symbol of natural femaleness, of unrestrained female power, which the Barbie doll in the form of "civilization," later pursued to restrict and control. ... In the same society, other female members were not as reliant on the illustration of the Willendorf, figurine hence the art was attempting to show diverse ro...

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Essentialism is an especially strong form of background assumption. ... Edna's experiences on Grand Isle "awaken" desires and urges for music, sexual satisfaction, art, and freedom that New Orleans society deemed unacceptable. ...

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Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media, constitutes an eroticizing of sexual inequality - as opposed to merely a celebrating of female sexuality - because it implicitly imposes a male perspective on the definition of female sexuality. ... Nearly one-tenth of young American women and one...

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"The first type of essentialism that can be found in this area [music and gender] is the idea that men and women 'express' some essential masculine or feminine forms of sexuality. ... One of the earliest attempts to start theorising the relationship between rock music and sexuality can be found in an essay written by Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie (1978), in which they argued that rock operated as a form of sexual expression and as a form of sexual control. Frith and McRobbie declared that, in terms of 'control and production, rock is a male form' (1978: 5). ... An...

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Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." ... Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. ... Cather illustrates a story of Jim Burden and his relationship with Antonia within a backdrop of events that can be appropriated as forming a lesbian narrative space. ... Jim's revolution towards the snake further accentuates how the idea of the male is treated withi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The most visible element of hip-hop, the most commercially viable, is the art of rap, one enjoyed and performed by both men and women alike. ... The culture defines the word hip-hop as "intelligent movement", "hip" coming from the word "hippie" which signifies to "open your eyes and see", "hop" deriving from the English meaning "movement" (Akala); however, not all forms stayed true to this ideal. ...

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Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. ... This perpetuates the notion that women are just prizes, and legitimate pieces of art. ... When women watch music videos or any other form of media that inaccurately portrays women they get the sense that it is okay to dress scantily to get the attention of a man. ...

• Word Count: 1911
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Thou art inclined to sleep I know thou canst not choose. ... As a result of the social belief of the inferiority of women, and the expectation of a subservient attitude, women were often a form of slaves for males to use in obtaining what they want. ... Miranda, also, is represented as a form of slave, as she symbolizes the notion that women were to do as men wanted, through her submission and obedience to her father Prosper, and later to Ferdinand. ...

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Pointing out that biology textbooks use only negative words such as "failure" that only produces "waste", and "dying," denuding, " to describe the female reproductive system, specifically the menstrual cycle, Martin forms a juxtaposition against the male sperm, that is "something deemed valuable," "strong and streamlined" (Martin, 488,489). ... I find that this also starts to discriminate against certain types of males, those that don't wish to be warriors, but damsels instead, or those who enjoy expressing their emotions through art ...

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His "intergration of state of the art 1960's sex role theory with his equally moribund view or hormonal causation of behavior" is the main fault in this study, she states. ... Thus, sexual dimorphism constitutes a template of the various forms of differentiations our species reveals- Anthropological evidence shows how human gender roles were defined in very ancient times, compared with how they are regarded today. ...

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Teachers still persist in the practice of forming lines, determining groups, and award winning prizes by gender and the way problems, schoolwork, and exercise are often understood or related to boys' lives rather than girls' lives." ... Encourage girls to pursue sports, science and math and boys to engage in cooking, art, and music. "It is important that early childhood educators know that young children are especially susceptible to forming stereotypes. ...

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The subjects and the knowledge taught to students is constructed along gender lines, whereby females are more likely to be encouraged to excel in art and language subject areas, in comparison to males who are believed to perform better in mathematics and science, and as a result more attention and emphasis on these subjects are given to males. ...

• Word Count: 4539
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate