The leading females in the tale-Sita, Soorpanaka and Kaikeyi-upon analysis seem to wrestle with patriarchy. ... She says, "if you reject my command, you'll be the first of your ancestors to go back on a promise for the sake of convenience" (Narayan 42-43). ... Though The Ramayana continues to serve as a moral guardian of a patriarchal system, it also gives a prominent place to women, narrating their struggle against a male favoring culture-like the stories of Sita, Kaikeyi and Soorpanaka-and opening up a discourse on gender. ...

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At first glance and with the most shallowness of analysis it can be assumed that these women are "bad women ", especially when set up against the woman of "The Clerk's Tale " whose submissiveness was often celebrated and elevated as something all women should strive to emulate. ... Upon the wedding day, Walter makes clear to Griselda his expectation of her which are similar to those listed above: "I say to you must be ready with good heart to do my pleasure. . .and never must you grudge it, night or day, neither in words nor frowning countenance. ... All three of these characters and wom...

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'Gender stereotypes, like other social stereotypes, reflect perceivers' observations of what people do in daily life. ... Data Analysis For this study, we adopted the framework developed by Miles and Huberman (1994) to distil and analyse the data from the transcripts of three of the most productive focus group discussions. The Miles and Huberman framework can be divided into three major phases of data analysis: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and verification (Miles, Huberman, & Saldaña, 2014). ...

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When you think of the picture-perfect family, what comes to mind? ... Or the father is works twenty-four seven and when he is not working he at the gym or doing "manly" things like working on a car and getting all dirty? ... " This is not what men and women are even close to being like realistically. ... The teenage children see peers their age or young beautiful women or men on commercials who look a certain way and the younger teen girl or boy believe they need to look just like their peers in the commercials. ... After paying that amount you may not even get the results you w...

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It helps to remember that dominance, just like any identity is a practice. ... Horrock says that "this split has encouraged feelings of superiority amongst men no women could "take it" like a man can take it on the rugby field or the football field" (Horrock 1995: 151). ... Look through the pages of magazines such as Undergear, International Male, and Malepak, and you will see not only what today's ideal men look like, but also what they are wearing at the gym. ...

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The information gathered was through extensive research and analysis of this diverse group. ... Playing certain sports such as kickball or baseball where you must use your entire body become difficult as the restrictive attire doesn't allow much room for movement. ... If I send my little girl to preschool, whether in a dainty dress or boy-like overalls, I would expect that she is being reminded of how to conduct herself as a little lady. ...

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In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ... An analysis of these four contemporary Latin American films provides a way to look at the progression of the female presence in cinema. ... A woman is only appreciated for her 'to-be-looked-at-ness' for she has no importance but a sexual eroticism that dis...

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More recently in the late 1990s, the science fiction genre seems to have become popular again with alien invasion' type films like Independence Day, which was released in 1996 and Men in Black, 2001, or the spoof Mars Attacks, 1997, and the continued popularity of the Star Trek series that ironically refers back to an earlier television version of the future as well as reinforcing a particular and pro-American ideological message. ... When you look science-fiction films it has to be said that the genre is traditionally masculine, not at least because of the domination of males in...

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So, in the movie, you will notice some discriminating lines stated by a cappella competition commentator, John Smith (John Michael Higgins) about the female gender. ... " This line was uttered by John to the Bellas trying to make them accept that their suspended and just be okay to stop competing because their "just women", whatever they do, in the end, they will just eventually get pregnant and be like a typical housewife. ... Because of the shameful event caused by the girl group, John Smith again uttered a discriminating statement to the girls "This is what happens when ...

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