Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." It was further found that this was not wholly due to the use of the masculine pronoun as a generic: "97 percent of the uses of "he" referred male humans or animals, or to persons presumed to be male" (the examples he cites are sailors and farmers). ... Silveira also found that both men and women tend to visualise male figures when they read the masculine "generic" or hea...

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(The Prostitution Papers, by Kate Millet, Avon, 1973) Some of the prostitutes surveyed said that they didn't mind what they did and found it easier than working a nine to five job and it would be easier if it was legalized throughout the U.S. ...

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It would lower the level of safety and security in a dangerous work environment and be easily taken advantage of due to lack of "roughness". ... Albert Bandura's Model of Reciprocal Determinism This model helps show a clear change in the environment but certain biases are not always so easily dismissed. ...

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Bringing a live human being into the world can be very intimidating, especially if it is for the first time. Every parent questions their parenting style whether or not it is because they don't know if their style is effective or if they are being "good" parents in general. Thankfully there are tho...

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This notion can be supported by the data collected, which found that of the individuals who identified playing with an action figure during childhood, 83.4% where male, whereas 100% of the sample group who identified engaging in play with a plush toy were female (see figure 1). ...

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I. Background of Study Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. The United Kingdom is currently seeing the rise of potential cult classics such as Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, which followed the lives of heroine junkies in modern-day Edinburgh; and Bridget Jones" Diary by Helen Fielding, a day-by-day account of the trials and tribulations of a single woman in cosmopolitan London. Nick Hornby, a music and pop-culture critic, has been at the forefront of...

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In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ...

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