Inequality among sexes in our modern society is a justifiable concern as women (as a group) are misrepresented in positions of power and earned wages, however, the innate differences between men and women explains how these differences happen and are reproduced; this knowledge should be applied by the modern feminist movement to more efficiently pursue socioeconomic equality. ... Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of psychopathology at the University of Cambridge conducted an observational study of infants who had not yet been influenced by social factors to determine whether sexual dimorphism (dif...

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The typical image of a nuclear family with a dog buddy, happily standing next to their family house is drastically fading away. ... This depiction is not currently seen in America with gay marriages emerging in the society; however, same-sex marriage has not been fully accepted ion the society. ... Therefore, it is believed that men are the natural home providers and women are naturally the caregivers and are best suited for household and family raising responsibilities (Staricek, 52). ... Staricek argues that the American history has changed and the women contribute to 51 percent of the Amer...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. ... 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). ... " The scene segues into a montage of different women being sexualized for the camera in cinema: a woman being sexually dominated by a man on a rock by the ocean, a woman disrobing before entering a bathtub four times, ...

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To incite further pity she claimed that Stewie was addicted to crack, subsistent on dog food, and that his father did not pay child support. ... For example the idea that dog food is unsuitable for a human is taken as truth but why is this so? ... The only logical explanation is that the notion is culturally constructed, and the rationale for declaring dog food as inedible follows closely with the aforementioned Ju/"hoansi example. ... When combined with Meg's claims that Stewie's father was a "deadbeat" who did not pay child support, one gets a rather interesting picture of Qu...

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According to the National Institute of Health, in any given year, 9.5% of the population in the United States will have a depressive disorder , with women more than twice as likely as men to experience depression at sometime in their life. Those most likely to experience depression are married women, women in poverty, adolescents, and unmarried men. ... Her disheveled appearance, her dull gaze and lack of eye contact convey a sense of despair that totally engulfs her, as does the starving, dying dog curled in a ball at her feet. ... Women who were mentally ill were often thought to be witches ...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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A disease not to be taken likely that often affects pregnant women is postpartum depression. ... For women, the age of onset is sometimes later in the ages of 20 to 30. ... A ringing telephone might seem loud as a fire alarm bell, or a loved one's voice as threatening a barking dog. ... Postpartum depression is a psychiatric mood disorder that affects pregnant women. ...

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The meaning of the word dog is not inherent in the sounds themselves; it is assigned, to the sounds by human beings. ... When one considers the mother-in-law taboo in its relationship to the place of residence of a newly married couple, the customary division of labor between the sexes, their respective roles in the society, and these in turn to the technology of society, the mother-in-law taboo becomes, again by definition, culture. ...

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