Today's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element associated with the author's gender. ... Nevertheless, women's literature tends to lend a much more prominent distinction of gender through the structure of poetry. ... The woman is perplexed by the letter and begins to pace back and forth in her mind about its origin and final intentions, while youthful memories spring forth one by one, testing ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The film delves into gender issues, questions of identity, and the ethics of interpersonal relationships. ... All of this unfolds in a context that analyzes how we identify gender and how we differentiate between the masculine and the feminine. ... What has always seemed generally simple about gender is made extremely complex when one gender passes for another, and the responses of others toward Brandon raise all manner of questions about whether these others are attracted to the idea of Brandon or the true existence of Teena. ... Gender is not the only issue being tested in this film, f...

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Jordan O'Neil, a member of the U.S. navy, is selected as the guinea pig in a test that would determine if women will be fully integrated into all branches of the U.S. navy. ... Thus, one could maintain that the movie is not feminist and it reinforces gender norms. ... Thus, gender norms are not reinforced in a way that subordinates one sex to the other, but confirms that both genders are equal in capacity, and the task of becoming a soldier is up to whoever can complete the training. And so, in the quest to uncover the hidden assumptions about gender, the liberal feminist approach provide...

• Word Count: 996
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This music video makes a big connection to gender and gender roles, it gives the male figure a strong role stating that a man should walk strong, act strong, act confident, have a big ego, and be able to back it up. ... Again, gender and gender roles play a big part in advertisements; men want to feel more masculine as women want to feel more feminine. In a Goodyear Tire commercial you get to see how society thinks a man and woman should behave, in this commercial they are taking a man and a woman on a test drive to prove that their tires are durable. ... I believe that people feel the need to...

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From early childhood girls and boys receive different treatment based on their gender, and that starts the processes of gender identity. ... Some (no matter what gender) lack motivation, and if there could be a female specific incentive, then maybe we could get more participation. ... I'm in the process of reading a book called Delusions of gender by Cordeila Fine, in it recalls research done by a woman of the name of Mary Murphy. Her and her classmates at Stanford University took a group of students from the science math, engineering, and technology majors and asked their opinions on two...

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It has been tested that given the same emotional stimuli women tend to react only a little more physiologically than men, but tend to show a lot more facial recognition to the stimuli. ... Facial reaction to emotional stimuli is not something that is given to someone like eye color or gender; it is more something that is learned. It is a gender role just like the traditional idea that women should do housekeeping and be the main caretaker of the children as the man should work and provide for the family. ... Now this might be taken to an extreme, but if you read ancient literature it is true ...

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Men are the superior gender; Men are militants. ... The idea is to create a tradition in which these men are initiated with tests of their masculinity. These tests are attempts to hide the actual interaction between the peers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Society is caught up in the allusion that gender advocates how a person should be, not how a person is. ... Women have always been intelligent and now women are beginning to outscore men on intelligence tests, proving Upson's position that being a genius thrives beyond biology. ... The huge difference in numbers between genders still exists, but now females dominate the charts. ...

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Throughout the ages, society and the traditional representation of gender roles, have truly masked us from what is morally correct. ... With the factors of a misunderstanding husband, lack of sexual fulfillment, and a sense of inequality due to her gender, Elisa finds herself confined within the walls of a depressing foothill ranch on the sunless Salinas Valley and ultimately suffering a breakdown she cannot escape. ... She possesses the traits of a well rounded woman, being energetic, intelligent and has a great deal of ambition towards her chrysanthemums, Nevertheless, the positivity to ...

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On hearing about the situation facing the town, using courage she rebukes the leaders of the town for testing God, then explaining how this is a test from God, about suffering and faith, similar to those faced by Abraham and Jacob. ... We have a female hero who challenges gender roles, displays manly attributes – makes her views known, has money, servants, is a warrior. ...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School