Gender Bias in Literature ?Men Fix Things?Girls Have Dolls? -Shirley B. Ernst I have thought about many different ways to organize this paper and have come to the conclusion that the best way to approach the topic is on a book-by-book basis. My perceptions of the gender biases in these books va...
Sam said to Brigid, "Since I got something on you, I am not sure that you wouldn't put a hole in me someday! ... He would have looked you up and down and licked his lips and have gone grinning from here to ear and you could have stood as close to him as you like in the dark and put a hole through him that evening." ...
Introduction The Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is a predatory mammal, closely related to civets and mongooses, and are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Their lifespan in the wild extends to about 25 years, and they generally weigh from 110-190 pounds. [7,9] They live in clans of up to 90 membe...
LEGO, which recently passed Mattel as the worlds largest toy maker, was one of the first companies to adopt the movement of marketing certain toys toward certain genders. As seen on television and known by children of both genders worldwide, LEGO's are a children's favorite. The creators of LEGO ha...
For many years discussions of sexuality were informed by a distinction between 'sex' and 'gender.' The sex of a person was judged to be 'biologically determined' and their gender to be 'culturally and socially constructed' (Abercrombie, Hill and Turner, 1988: 103). Gender rol...
And just to show you that the male fans aren't the only ones deriving pleasure from all of this skin and sex, several former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders filed a lawsuit last January claiming that every team in the NFL except the Eagles and Jaguars had peeped at them through a hole in the visitor's clubhouse. ...
Dress code is a major controversy that has been raging in public schools for decades. The first dress code law was established in 1969 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The incident that caused this law to take effect was one in which several high school students wore black armbands to school in order to ...
