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....

• Word Count: 691
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Initially in The Piano Ada is the object of Baines gaze, as he watches her play the piano and project sexual fantasies onto her. ... Campion again destroys the active/passive split when Ada's husband locks her up after witnessing her have sex with Baines. ... Baines on the other hand, knew he could not possess, control and treat Ada as an object and opened up to her and her desires. ...

• Word Count: 1029
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay is exploring human behaviour both from an individual point of view, as well as considering society as a whole. Main causes of human behaviour have to be taken into the account along with the outcome or the effects of such actions; historical as well as psychological perspectives are consi...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Ideas in the mind" become significant in society only as expressed in language, acts, and objects. ... 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. ... Again, the eye-hand-object co-ordinations involved in tool using stimulated the growth of the brain, especially the forebrain. ... A trait may be an object, a way of doing som...

• Word Count: 4734
• Approx Pages: 19
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Societies of later centuries were not welcoming to the idea of interracial couples, same sex marriages, or even the simple art of tattooing. ... According to symbolic interactionism, the meaning of objects, events, and behaviors comes form the interpretation people give them, and interpretations vary from one group to another. ...

• Word Count: 1225
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. ... " - Dasimayya The composition, like that of Basavanna's as well upholds the philosophy of transcendence of social constructs such as that of gender, to finally unite with the higher being, the object of love and worship, the God. ...

• Word Count: 2258
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction Great thinkers have been trying to understand the world and peoples' place in it since the beginning of time. Some have done this by developing theories in order to explain how events or phenomena occur. Sociology has generally been understood as the study of human society, therefore i...

• Word Count: 2388
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also, he says that if it was hereditary, then it should influence both sexes but from the examples given, it was found that only male members of the family seemed to be committing suicide and not the females. ...

• Word Count: 3364
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sigmund Freud, in his research in dream analysis, discovered infantile sexuality and founded the 'Oedipus complex', which constitutes the erotic attachment of the child for the parent of the opposite sex, together with hostility towards the other parent. ... The concept of a woman warrior as outlined in both the Xena series and Cassandra is distanced from the cultural familiarity, where a woman is often the object of war not the protagonist. ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The issue of Identity is a complex one. Identity consists of innumerable defining characters that make up the whole of who we are in any given moment. These fragments of self-include our sexuality, gender and sense of belonging to a particular culture, nation, religion or family. It also includes our looks, personality, beliefs and fears and is "an unfolding storycontinuing recast in the course of experience." (Sennett, 2000: 176-177). ...

• Word Count: 1932
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions, it lasts. ...

• Word Count: 4180
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate