In Zehra Arat's chapter entitled Women Under Layers of Oppression: The (Un) Changing Political Economy of Gender, she writes that, "the common denominator of women in all societies, including the industrialized ones, is their subordinate status." ... Addressing the issue that women have perpetually held a significantly lower status than men constitutes only part of the argument according to Arat. ... This implemented programs to raise plans to advance the position and status of all women. ... Similarly, Margaret Leahy, in her book, Development Strategies and the Status of Women, she discu...

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As a working woman, Jane would be expected to remain unmarried, or leave her job if she did decide to marry, and marry a man of a similar social status to herself, such as a clergyman like St John Rivers. ... The consequences are the downfall of the school and of Brocklehurst himself, as he loses all of his power and status. ... This is true in the case of Jane, although it is necessary for Rochester to become physically disabled (loss of sexual appeal) and lose his property (loss of wealth and status) before she feels necessarily equal or superior to him – reflecting the attitudes of Vi...

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In so doing, we affect not only our lives, but also the lives of others and the social systems in which all of this take place. ... Functionalist theory may be interpreted as an apology for the status quo. ... The Conflict Perspective: From the conflict perspective, the gender inequality is a form of social stratification. ... This fact does not mean, however, that prestige, and wealth than any lower-class person, but the same upper-class woman will have less men and women have equal status. Typically, an upper-class woman will have more power, status 3 (Sociology for the twenty- first centu...

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This then leads to the significance of the title of the poem The Rape of the Lock, because Belinda becomes a victim to humiliation in society because a lock of her hair had been cut off after losing in a game of cards, causing her beauty to be lessened therefore making it harder for her to obtain pride and social status. ...

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Forcing those with similar socio-economic status to mate, strips a persons fundamental right of choice. ... Instead, he would be considered a proto-feminist due to his endorsement of the equality of the sexes in social status and function. ... Plato should have provided each citizen the ability to make personal decisions when it comes to social developments in order to improve the well being of the state. ...

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Social scientists have demonstrated that gender differences are formed through social interaction. ... For example, they are shown as housewives or employed in lower status, traditionally female occupations. Coltrane & Adams said that female characters are depicted as passive, dependent on men and they are shown as employed in lower status. ...

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James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, interprets this idea, "Hip-hop is now a big business with more attention paid to public image, product endorsements, and record deals that actual social change.... It has come to a point where "the exploitation of black women has become almost required for an artist to develop an identity, to develop a sense of status, to be a powerful, desireable, successful black male image of hip-hop...as part of [their] performance," explains Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. ... Commonly, women are merely adorned in hip-ho...

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Those expectations feed the insecurities and fears in consumers enabling the maintenance of advertisers status quo and keeping us purchasing (Lisenby). ... But is it really what the truth of adulthood expectations are or is it more preparing them to maintain the social status of the previous generations and to stick to traditional gender roles, with the woman having only two options: the prude or the slut? ... The advertising industry could easily claim its social agenda for maintaining the realization of society and its subsequent shift back to the value of family and the importance of a ...

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Thus, Horney's explanation of "feminine psychology" suggests that social change might be able to remedy traits deemed undesirable. Rather than attributing the adolescent female's renunciation of the "active" role in life to the resolution of penis envy, Thompson attributed it to external social pressures. ... The social learning theory holds that we learn both "female" and "male" behavior by observing others. ... The politics of gender refers to the unequal status and distribution of power between women and men and how that reality translates into gender-related behaviors and tr...

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They were also burdened with more complex tasks of household management and lived in greater isolation; thus reducing the female companionship of emotional support and social gatherings. ... However, after reading The Plantation Mistress, I have come to realize that the leisure status of the planter's lady is a fairy tale that I scooped up. ...

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An example can be found in Kidushin 1:1 by which the Mishnah maintains strict control of women activities, especially their sexual and reproductive role in the social economy. ... This explains the difference between her legal status and that of a normal widow. ...

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Mary Wollstonecraft argued that to obtain social equality society must rid itself of the monarchy as well as the church and military hierarchies. ... Wollstonecraft's works remains as a cornerstone in women's rights and laid the foundation for modern feminism, which sees education as the access to achieve greater economic, political, and social status. ...

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She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. ... Clearly, Torvald can't stand' to have his own power overshadowed by a woman, considered by him to be before all else a wife and a mother', and thus lesser in status than himself. ... Through Torvald's shallow' ideals of women working and unappeasable pride, which are...

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On the other hand, through a detailed expression of the differences in gender metaphors and stereotypes pertaining to the egg and the sperm such as: the egg being the "damsel in distress" and the sperm being the "heroic warrior" (Martin, 491), Martin comes to the conclusion that "waking up such metaphors, by becoming aware of their implications, will rob them of their power to naturalize our social conventions about gender" (Martin, 501). She offers a perspective that women are negatively stereotyped in a way that show they are more dependent, and less able than m...

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What would you do if you woke up one morning and your daughter was missing? Whether figuratively or literally, there are estimated to be over 100 million girls missing in Asia due to female infanticide, sex selective abortion, sex slavery, and human trafficking. All around the world, populations ar...

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In the article "Clinical Report-The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families" Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson acknowledge how "Many social media sites display multiple advertisements such as banner ads, behavior ads (ads that target people on the basis of their Web-browsing behavior), and demographic-based ads (ads that target people on the basis of a specific factor such as age, gender, education, marital status, etc.) that influence not only the buying tendencies of preadolescents and adolescents but also their views of what is nor...

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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. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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During the infant stages of America's development throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, settlers came over not knowing what their futures held or all the hardship they must first endure before finally building colonies that would grow and flourish. With the harsh environment and ...

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