On the same note, a labored woman of these groups would completely shutout the life of leisure. ... With the cut off time of welfare benefits fast approaching the government or private institutions (depending on one's political opinions) must do something to counteract these trends and they must do something quickly, before the feminization of poverty in America reaches epidemic proportions....
After noting the extravagance of a luncheon at a men's college, Woolf depicts the inadequate dining at Fernham, a college for women, presenting a drab meal consisting mainly of aplain gravy soup.? ... However, as each generation has been predisposed to chauvinistic ideas, our society has been forever plagued by gender discrimination and has not been so quick to accept the realization of equality. ...
As Tatiana from Eugene Onegin notes, without rank and riches', without moving in the grand monde', a woman is not a tempting plume' for a man to take. ... Tatiana chooses security, knowing full well the fleetingness of romantic love, and the quickness' with which it can dissipate. ...
It is important to note that this situation would not fit into the miscommunication theory that the male had simply "misperceived" the woman's signals, but rather, the sex happened because the male was persistent. ... These studies show society's quickness to either place a certain amount of blame on the victim of rape, or, almost as detrimental, place significantly less blame on the rapist based on the context of the act, whether they knew the perpetrator, and the character of the victim. ...
For many years discussions of sexuality were informed by a distinction between 'sex' and 'gender.' The sex of a person was judged to be 'biologically determined' and their gender to be 'culturally and socially constructed' (Abercrombie, Hill and Turner, 1988: 103). Gender rol...
