Teena Brandon was a young woman who used to bind her breast, cut her hair short, stuff a sock into her pants, passed as a man, renamed herself as Brandon Teena, and was later raped and murdered by her friends when her identity was discovered. The movie "Boys Don't Cry," narrates the true life story of Teena (AKA Brandon), which clearly shows that gender and sexual orientation are independent of biological sex. ... Wood wrote that "sex is a designation based on biology, while gender is socially and psychologically constructed" (19). ... Gender identity starts with the recognition and awar...

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If looked at closely the woman in the ad has breast augmentation which is not something that can be produced by eating protein bars. ... For a woman, that means they are frequently being sold on the ideologies of beauty, and sex. ...

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The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gender sex roles of society. ... One must firmly agree that women are not only under represented in the media but the media reinforces prejudiced sex roles. ... It is also interesting to note that these women always have the perfect or "ultimate" bodies; they are well toned, and have a small waist with large spherically rounded breasts. ... Since majority of the media representations of women are sex based, men will continu...

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Many people wont admit it, but sex ponders through the channels of our minds on a daily basis. ... The story clearly shows how desperate she truly is when she is sexually aroused by the tinker's interest in the Chrysanthemums she works on by stating that her voice grew husky afterwards her breast swelling passionately (Sullivan).This clearly shows the severity of the issue as Elisa has to resort to the tinker who she just meets as opposed to her husband, to get some sense of excitement towards her sexual activity. ... Not only does he neglect her as his wife, but he forgets to provide he...

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It's a hot, sunny day and two beautiful women with humongous breasts, slim waists and long luscious legs, rip each other's clothes off while splashing around in a shallow pool of water. ... Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... Of the five magazines, I choose twenty-five different advertisements to examine: ten of women only, ten of men only and five that were mixed sexes. ... There are many studies confirming the correlation between sexually explicit material and certain types of sex crimes. ...

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Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. ... "I pine and languish but he cares not whether I live or die--- If I see that thief of Govardhana that looting robber, that plunderer I shall pluck out by their roots these breasts that have known no gain I shall take them and fling them at his chest putting out the hell-fire which burns within me.... "If they see breasts and long hair coming they call it ...

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In any case, there is a clear distinction of the difference in power between the two sexes-one gender always dominates over the other. ... Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purposeCome to my woman's breasts And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers," (Macbeth, I, v, 50-55) This time, Lady Macbeth not only acknowledges her malevolent convictions, but desires her blood to be saturated with murderous agents to the extent that none of the natural, stereotypical "womanly feelings", or "compun...

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La Senora's occupations swing from massage therapist to the attempt of mass production of "bizarre devices- like "never- fail breast with candy nipple- and the like (123-124). ... But hiding away and even leaving the country with the help of her powerful friends did not take away the only stir of feelings that La Senora was to have in her life: imprisonment of Melesio did not let her sleep at night or carry on her revolutionary activity in the sex-care industry during the day. ...

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In his apartment there are pictures of naked women, he even objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). One can constantly spot his eyes wandering to a woman's breasts or rear, he spends a whole scene staring at scantily clad women by a pool and talking about their bodies, and he even perverts the baptism of his attractive maid into a romantic sexual fantasy. ... " The scene segues into a montage of different women being sexualized for the camera in cin...

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