Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically assigned to members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assumed to be more active and dominant than women, and are seen to be rational, objective individuals. ... More and more women are recognized as active, participating members of the public sphere, while men are increasingly assuming care-giving roles. ...

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The group numbers, from 1 to 15, were used to maintain anonymity and although each person was expected to attend the focus group, it was made clear that active participation was not compulsory. ... Following the "ice-breaker", three scheduled questions (Appendix A) were introduced one at a time to the mixed gender students and everyone was given an opportunity to speak freely, albeit one at a time to facilitate the voice recorder. ...

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In Summa Theologica, Aquinas expands Paul's argument for female inferiority even farther: "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition" (Source Book 211). ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...

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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states divorce as " an act of legally dissolving a marriage" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998). Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriag...

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Ancient Indian Grammarians, such as 'Patanjali and Katyayana' write that women were educated in many ways early in the Vedic period.2 This education coincided to women having a voice, the power of important decision-making, including free will to choose their husband. ... The feminine qualities, and their roles as mothers, 'empowered women to find places in the public arena of protest". 17 In order to improve gender issues within India, women had to be active and pursue independence, to show men they were in fact of use. ...

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