Each author tells a different story, but the authors agree on a common theme: "that too much emphasis is placed on the roles of the sexes in today's society." ... The story concludes in the office of a team of therapists analyzing X. ... Kanner employs an informative essay structure, a bias tone, and a third person perspective in depicting the roles of women in today's culture as molded by both sexes. ... Everyone is caught up with the fine line distinction between what separates each sex. ... In Gould's article she claims that gender bending is over dramatized and that peop...

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Of all the stories collected, 79% reflected the woman at first feeling ambivalent towards having sex (Beres, 769). ... In all of the situations of ambivalence, however, whether the act of sex occurred or not, the females' ambivalence was resolved by both parties before engaging or not engaging in sex. ... While many of these men fitting somewhere on this spectrum would not consider what they did to be rape or coercion, they make no reference to the woman changing her mind about intercourse in their stories. ... It is said that men think about sex every seven seconds. However a study by ...

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Throughout the story, the element of heat functions as a stimulant that increases the aggressive motivations of the workers. The story takes place during the hot summer in London. ... 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. ... Th...

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When we start off as children unconsciously knowing what type of colors, toys, and stories we should be interested in, we are working hand in hand with society preparing ourselves for the roles we made to believe are right for us as we enter into adulthood. ... According to the Webster's dictionary the definition of gender are the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex, and the definition of role is a character assigned or assumed. ... Parents are, of course, not the only social agents to influence children's sex typing. ... The perspective ...

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The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... During adolescence, differences between the sexes are suddenly intensified by not only peer groups, but the society as a whole. ... Myers mentions, "Differences between the sexes arise, genetically, from their differing sex chromosomes and, physiologically, from their differing concentrations of sex hormones" (Myers 126). ...

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As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... In today's society it is a child right to receive a full education up to the age of sixteen for both sexes, however in the 19th century education was not compulsory and if the opportunity of education arised it was rarely for the women. ... Maggie's desire for "masculine" knowledge is related using images drawn from the biblical story of Eve's sinful acquisition of the forbidden fruit. ...

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As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... In today's society it is a child right to receive a full education up to the age of sixteen for both sexes, however in the 19th century education was not compulsory and if the opportunity of education arised it was rarely for the women. ... Maggie's desire for "masculine" knowledge is related using images drawn from the biblical story of Eve's sinful acquisition of the forbidden fruit. ...

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Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ... She saw the female role as a "supporter of virtue and conscious of her supposed limitations, but also insistent that sex roles be fully reciprocal, that men be as accountable to their obligations as women."... (Akers 37) And even though, she eventually became a best informed woman in the nation, when it came to issues of public affairs, Abigail Adams remained within her sphere, careful not to cross the ...

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Diane Di Prima presents feminism through the use of her female character living out the unique, atypical female life of a bachelor in her autobiographical short story "Dinners and Nightmares" and "What I Ate Where". The uniquely styled short story primarily focuses on a woman living in what seems to be a one-bedroom apartment, jumping from job to job, eating anything she can to survive. ... The woman in the story spends the majority of her adult days painting, drinking beer, stealing small amounts of food from a local grocery store, and hanging out with what seems to be her...

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The first hand story of Roop Kanwar shows this. ... The contrasts between sexes were so extreme throughout the period that a unified National Independent Movement was a blessing in disguise, a formal chance to fight. ...

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Play then starts to become more complex turning into socio-dramatic play where children make-believe play with others and then by age 4 to 5 they start to build on one another's play ideas coordinating with several different roles that follow a particular story line (Berk, 2013, p. 240). ...

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Jonathan's score for Rent is an index of different famous styles worked consistently into a solid story and is clearly shown by his sharp sense of representing characters through lyrics. ... " To add on, its interpretation of Puccini's musical, La Boheme, into a "Lower East side story", blends high and low more forcefully than other musicals of the 1990s. ... In Rent, the audience is exposed not only to transgender characters, but also same-sex relationships (for example, the relationship between Angel, a transgender woman, and Collins, a male). ...

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It is in this marriage where she holds the least power because, unlike her first four marriages where she dominated the rich, submissive men and forced them, with sex or lip, to give her money, she actually loved her fifth husband. ... Griselda's patience is unparalleled to that of the wife in "The Wife of Bathe " and Noah's wife reluctance to enter the ship to stay behind with her friends is seen nowhere else in the other two stories. ...

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Instead "the whole diversity of lived masculinities can be understood as specific realizations of a vague set of ideas and demands, images and stories that are defined as masculine, adapted to the concrete situation an individual or group has to cope with"(Peterson 1998: 126). ...

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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. ... Instances of vociferously protesting the ties of marriage, as in the case of Akka Mahadevi, or the outright refusal of marriage, as in the case of Andal and even the rejection of the fiercely imposed widowhood, with regard to the story of Mira- are all exemplified stories that that travelled through time as tales of rebellion in the name of God, the beloved. ...

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For example the movie The Easiest Way (1917) was banned in Kansas on the basis of its story depicting a "fallen woman".8 The religious groups linked these prevailing trends to the destruction of orthodoxy, family structure and traditional values and thusly pose a threat to Christian monopoly over American society. When Quigley referred to current cinema he claimed that it endorsed "false sex standards, incitements to sexual emotion, glorification of crime and criminals and debasing brutality".9 Quigley's and Hollywood's chief censor Will H. ...

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" 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, a woman taking off her bra, another her pants, and a final scene of a woman refusing to have sex with a man but giving in. ...

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(Wood, 2013) We know how gender stereotyping can begin the moment parents find out the sex of their child. ... The boys then fell behind in their reading assignments, because they did not appeal to what they liked which was stories about heroes, combat and adventure. Rhodes also pointed out there wasn't any type of competition, such as dividing the class into groups and finding out which group understood the story the best out of the groups. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ...

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Research shows the vulnerability women express when sharing their own stories and have an ease to connect, rather than impress. ... Sex segregation is a multi-facetted phenomenon and has been investigated in different levels.This study is focused on one school; therefore no true recommendation can be made of other facilities and women. ...

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