For example, the question of a link between induced abortion and breast cancer has been investigated extensively. Major medical and scientific bodies have concluded that abortion does not cause breast cancer, although such a link continues to be promoted by anti-abortion groups. ...
Sex Hormones, Gender Differences, and Behavior Abstract Behavior is intricately woven of genetics, environment, and hormones. The interplay of the nervous and endocrine systems and the influence of sex hormones on behavior are examined here in depth. Hormones are intimately tied to sex characteristics and to behavior. ... Hormonal influence on female cycles, reproduction, nursing, sexual behavior and sex differences are also examined. ... Steroids are the basis of the sex hormones, which are conventionally divided into three groups: the male sex hormones or androgens, the female sex hormon...
The mistress' desire to engage in sex is never portrayed by Donne, and her silence only exacerbates the brutality of the speaker's demands. ... The speaker states, "That's it: a slender arrow sticks fast in my heart/and cruel Love lives there, in my conquered breast" (Amores 1.2.7-8), his choosing to capitulate to Cupid rather than fight; furthering Ovid's conceit of love's ability enamor ones' self. ...
In addition, in order to establish a prima facie case, the plaintiff must show that she is in a protected class, that she was subjected to unwelcome behavior based on sex, that her response led to adverse job consequences, and that the employer is liable for the harassment. ... We will not tolerate any behavior, which discriminates against or disparages a person on account of his or her race, religion, sex, national origin, and age or disability status. ... In this paper, I concentrate on the experiences of women because even though women can sexually harass men, or there is harassment t hat...
The Sex Pistols' producer, Malcolm McLaren printed posters to advertise his bands, and most of them were outrageous by any standard. ... These gimmicky images would push the limits of what could be considered art, and what was created purely for shock value, but many of these images were also inordinately creative, such as a cut out photograph of female breasts placed at breast height on T-shirts worn by either sex. ...
Old Racism Old racism originated in the 16th century with the beginning of chattel slavery. When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. In essence, chattel s...
These figures had big hips, breasts and supple legs and were believed to stand for productiveness and fertility in India( Dhavalikat 178). ... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ...
Important elements in this regulatory function are played by the opioid system, serotonergic pathways, GnRH, FSH, LH, Activin, inhibin prolactin and sex steroids as well as by many peptide growth promoting, differentiation & inhibitory substances. ...
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...
In order to grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. What is feminist theatre? Is it concerned with women as performers, women dramatists or playwrights? Consider this striking description: "Generally speaking, feminists involved in the creation or analysis of theatre usually wish to enact, embody or inspire some kind of political, personal or cultural change via the public platform of theatre"[Sim15]. This implies that femin...
The principle of respect for autonomy does not apply to people not in a position to act in an autonomous manner. This means that infants, suicidal people, and drug-dependent patients may be validly controlled on the grounds of beneficence to protect them from harm.1 Under the principle of beneficence, the nurse may legitimately restrain a patient from exercising his or her autonomy by trying to jump out a window.3 But people judged mentally incompetent are still capable of making autonomous choices about what they want to eat or what clothes they wish to wear.1 Constraint of a person'...
Designers knew that although the "responsible" adult customer" when asked would say that "economy, durability and reliability "9 dictated their auto purchases, in reality what mattered was "adult toys, with pizzazz and sex appeal." ... American designers portrayed the "car of the future,"" with many of their design inspirations centered around sex, the military or the combination thereof. These automobiles emerged in "full regalia of fantasy bullets and bombs, breasts, portholes and jets, spears and wings. "Assembly lines rolled off car after car with "frenched"" headlights and "toothy" chrome...
