Each of his chapters pertains to a separate issue and all of them begin with a personal analogy that helps the reader understand what the chapter will discuss. ... He tends to devote parts of each chapter to the opposing sides and the chapter, Job Security, is no exception. ... But Mackay's notion of "finding a new world", something that is undercurrent throughout the book comes through more blatantly in the end. ... To me the structure and arguments in The Big Picture represent a condensed version of the whole book. ... An example of ineffectiveness of underlying values and assumption is...

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This chapter, as a whole, has evoked mixed reactions from me. On one hand it was really nice to read a chapter that wasn't loaded with sexism and bias. ... On the other hand, a lot of the chapter was just a psychology review. The basic premise of the chapter was that there is no distinct psychology or personality for women. ... The different theories presented in the book brought up good points and most of them made sense. ...

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In Chabon's latest book, Manhood for Amateurs, rather than attacking the traditional characteristics attributed to masculinity – leader, hunter, and warrior – he argues that no man can fulfill them. ... In the chapter style of Manhood, Chabon told us four stories about his experiences of acting masculine and he also defended himself for cooking for his family and carrying a "murse." Michael Chabon took a stand in his book and defend men's refusal to stop and ask for directions is a "foundational cliche of woman's criticism, analysis, and stand-up mockery of male...

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In Zehra Arat's chapter entitled Women Under Layers of Oppression: The (Un) Changing Political Economy of Gender, she writes that, "the common denominator of women in all societies, including the industrialized ones, is their subordinate status." ... In Catherine Scott's book, Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory, she writes about the World Bank and its theories. ... Similarly, Margaret Leahy, in her book, Development Strategies and the Status of Women, she discusses United Nations conferences where information on women's status" economically, p...

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This is a very bold statement by Bronte, in her attempt to make a political statement within her book Jane Eyre. ... This excerpt from the book clearly expresses Bronte's strong feelings about women's domesticity in her time, and she does it in an almost semi-humorous way which makes it even more impressive. ... The entire passage from chapter twelve of Jane Eyre is a symbol of Bronte's disgust with the social restrictions put on women of her era. ...

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" (Genesis 1:27) This alludes to the difference between men and women from the rest of the created life forms as unique and distinctive, and assigns both males and females a certain kind of dignity and value that is not given to God's other creations. [10] In value, men and women are equal on the premise that they are image bearers of God. [7] The Bible elucidates in its early chapters that man and woman were made to complement one another and affirms that "there is neither male nor female if [they] are one with Christ Jesus.... In response to this issue, whilst acknowledging th...

• Word Count: 1643
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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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In the book "Erin's Daughters in America" by Hasia R. ... The Irish culture, prominently featuring gender segmentation and the belief that women are to have social roles unconstrained to men, allowed the women to avail themselves of the job opportunities in America, as Diner so clearly states in chapter four, "The structure of the American job market as it translated into opportunities for the unskilled and uneducated tended initially to favor the Irish immigrant woman over the man....

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Buss tried to explain the evolutionary truth about relationships in his book The Evolution of Desire and bases his theories on a cross-cultural study of more than 10,000 respondents. ... Buss emphasizes the role of males and females in mate selection and asserts in later chapters that much has gone unchanged, "it is clear that many ancestral women required reliable signs of male commitment before consenting to sex, men who failed to commit would have suffered selectively on the mating market. ...

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Numerous individuals feel as if they are pressured by the idea of an ideal body image through the media. In many instances, individuals often have their own ideal body image, but because of standards that humanity has set for the "perfect body" that are reinforced through the media, men and women ar...

• Word Count: 4155
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate