Gender Issues & Differences The two sexes by Eleanor Maccoby. ... A book about sex in the broadest sense. The two sexes seek to tell us how our development from in fancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender. ... Most English nouns referring to objects that cannot be classified by sex take the pronoun it, although exceptions exist; ships. ... Most research makes clear that whatever the biological preclis positions, children receive strong cultural messages about sex appropriate traits, tasks, and behaviors. ...

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The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. ... Lessing's message is that Tom only has positive feelings towards the woman on his own terms as he objectifies her in his estimation of her as a sex object satisfying his fantasy. ... In the story, women are objectified as one would think of weather, as an object and not a person, and the men treat the woman with equal contempt each in his own way. ... Consequently, h...

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A definition of Objectification might be: "portrayals of women in ways and contexts which suggest that women are objects to be looked at, touched, or used, anonymous things or commodities to be purchased, or perhaps taken and once tired of, even discarded, often to be replaced by a newer, younger edition; certainly not treated as full human beings with equal rights and needs. ... Sexual advertising is the media's way of showing off a product that does not exactly have a direct correlation to sex. ... Giving men a false sense of reality, having the belief in their head that they are auto...

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The largest differences appear in the way men and women estimate time, judge the speed of moving objects, process language, carry out mental mathematical calculations, orient in space and visualize objects in three dimensions4. ... A controversial book "Brain Sex" offers explanations for these very early differences in children18. ... The sexes have baffled each other through out history and to quote some of the great philosophers: "What man has assurance enough to pretend to know thoroughly the riddle of a woman's mind?" ... That is, they integrate more details of the world around the...

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The woman is depicted as being submissive, obedient and readily available whilst the man is shown to be dominant and gaining the object of his desire. ... The exploited female is depicted as an object. Sexual, fragile, needing to be dominated by the authorial male, she is employed to appeal and provide for the predominantly young male audiences "male gaze"; selling products through the means of sex....

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Even in the subgenre of punk rock, women were often treated as a novelty by the music press and cultural critics – gifting bands such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash with rock notoriety, while their female counterparts, such as the Runaways and Bikini Kill, sunk into obscurity. ...

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Tools such as word processing software are less sex stereotyped than say computer games, and are commonly used by women. ... As research and communication tools through e-mail, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web have increased in popularity and efficiency, women have overcome sex stereotypes and social stigmas about computer use and begun to become active on the Internet. ... (Quittner 63) Though feminists and social critics may debate the merits and harm of the accessibility of pornography on the Internet, an almost completely male network which primarily deals with women as objects of pornog...

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Those who believe in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes, or feminists, can interpret the play however as a depiction of the sexist treatment of women, and would disagree with the characteristics and expectations that make Miranda the ideal woman. ... The play demonstrates the inferiority of women through the representation of women as objects, or prized possessions. ...

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Accidentally she climbs into the wrong space, Gils bed, his reaction is to hush the panicked Stella by explaining "Go quietly so as to not wreck your reputation, or myn" automatically Stella is turned into a sexual object, one that could ruin everything, by creating chaos in a public space. ... Female = object. ...

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This additional muscle helps boys to be better adapted in physical tasks, such as hunting, fighting and lifting heavy objects. ... Health, fertility and survival are all traits that are considered attractive to the opposite sex. ...

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