From the changes from the Venus de Willendorf era, there is a sex/gender struggle in definition between female and feminine. ... Going by the current understanding, while sex is genetic or a result of nature, gender is to be recognized as social, meaning it is the outcome of culture or nurture. ... The protruding, bulbous body, big breasts, bounteous abdomen, and vulva split manifest unrefined, uncivilized taste. ... Reproduction is illustrated by the heavily pronounced reproductive body organs such as breasts and abdomen. ...

• Word Count: 1703
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gender sex roles of society. ... One must firmly agree that women are not only under represented in the media but the media reinforces prejudiced sex roles. ... It is also interesting to note that these women always have the perfect or "ultimate" bodies; they are well toned, and have a small waist with large spherically rounded breasts. ... Since majority of the media representations of women are sex based, men will continu...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Traditionally, in a Victorian society, the man is the one that is supposed to possess the more dominating role during sex. ... Her lust for both blood and sex are untamable and insatiable. ... "With a careless motion, she flung to the ground the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone. ...

• Word Count: 1338
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I strongly agree with her thoughts and ideas distinguishing sex-role identifications. ... Looking at the magazine cover of Cosmopolitan's June 1999 issue, you see a beautiful, tall, skinny female with blonde hair, green eyes and half her breasts showing. ... Women are socially constructed to believe that they have to be beautiful to be successful and that women stand as sex objects. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When the children of both sexes reach puberty it represents a time of change. ... The girls at this stage are deemed "black thigh ones", named after the broad black stripes that are painted on their thighs, breasts, and upper arms. ...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After insemination, paternal and maternal chromosomes fuse, this fusion determines the sex of the child. ... She will develop breasts, her hips will grow and widen, she will grow pubic hair and most importantly she will start her menstrual cycle, meaning, like the sexually maturing male, she will have attained full reproductive capacity. ... If the two sexes are treated differently and have different expectations of their behaviour then they will learn to behave differently. ... It showed that a study by Hammer had indicated that it was possible to locate the gene that is responsible for our s...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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. ... "I pine and languish but he cares not whether I live or die--- If I see that thief of Govardhana that looting robber, that plunderer I shall pluck out by their roots these breasts that have known no gain I shall take them and fling them at his chest putting out the hell-fire which burns within me.... "If they see breasts and long hair coming they call it ...

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