The female characters are dressed in such way that they are forced to been inactive whereas the male characters' costumes are obviously made for the environment that the film was set in, as the clothes are worn and dusty and easy to move in. ... The first was Fay Wray in King Kong, a character renowned for her high pitched call of fear. ... Altaira's whole purpose of her character is that of a reward, to be fought over by the hero and the evil robot. ... In the original film, which was made in the late 1970's, the character Ripley, is part of the crew in charge of a space-shi...

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The leading females in the tale-Sita, Soorpanaka and Kaikeyi-upon analysis seem to wrestle with patriarchy. ... Another striking female character who manipulates the values of her patriarchal society to achieve her own ends is Soorpanaka (also known as Kamavali). ...

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She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. ... An analysis of these four contemporary Latin American films provides a way to look at the progression of the female presence in cinema. ... At the end of her essay Mulv...

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The advertisement coordinates her outfit with the green theme of the brand's packaging and looks very similar to the familiar female character from Kill Bill. ... By using a female character, similar to the Bride in Kill Bill, the ad is depicting a strong individual in a weak position. ... It could let woman see that, if such a strong powerful character can use this mop to defeat the dirt, so can they. ...

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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. ... All three of these characters and women like them, despite modern reader's issues with their behaviors, have represented "good women " well in Middle English literature and have even redefined, through their actions, what it means to be a good woman without that gaze of the sexist men who surrounded them ...

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This took the form of assigning a gender classification to various character traits from "nurturing" to "aggressive". ... 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? Is it a mother and father where the father makes an income while the mother is at home? Or is it the realistic family that either both parents work hard for an income or the mother is taking on more the aspects of being the provider and the father is the housewife? Even though times have changed and women are starting to be the breadwinners and responsibilities for men and women are flip-flopping. Then why does the media still portray this perfect housewife image that the mother stays home, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the k...

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Masculinity in the Media The discussion of masculinity encounters a paradox: some behaviors are clearly aimed at dominance showing off, physical aggression, etc but no man is only dominant, some men are not dominant at all, yet somehow on the whole a systematic dominance of men over any person deemed as feminine seems to get reaffirmed. It helps to remember that dominance, just like any identity is a practice. Therefore only some of an individual man's identity practices can be relations of dominance; not all men in a society view themselves in this way, but through the repeated recons...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ...

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