William Shakespeare's The Tempest provides a historical reference of the social expectations and stereotypes enforced upon women in Elizabethan times. ... From such a perspective, The Tempest can be furthermore used to compare and contrast the social expectations, and the treatment of women within the 16th and 17th Centuries to those of today. ... Sycorax is furthermore used in contrast with the other female roles within the plays, as she is also a witch and thus possesses great power. ... Despite the expectations placed upon women to be accepted by attaining certain characteristic and...

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The Cleavers were the perfect family with a strong husband, loving wife, and two great kids. ... Our society has certain standards and expectations for being a male. ... Our society has expectations of females just as they do for males. ... Who is to blame for these unreachable expectations we put on ourselves? Because of the unreachable expectations, the emotional impact on us is great. ...

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These diverse types of women all fell into the category fitted because of how society prefers women to behave and how the woman feels about society's/family's expectations for them. ... Jayanthi, an American Indian woman from Bells interviews recalls "[getting] confused [and] freak[ing] out and feel[ing] [the need] to settle down" (33) when her actions opposed her parents and community's expectations of her. ... Personal history is a huge factor in Janyanthi's success as a person and while creating her own she discovers "there is also appeal in the drama and ...

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Nevertheless, the careful reader notices a curious trend in many of Shakespeare's plays: many of Shakespeare's female characters exercise a rather great deal of delicate forms of power and influence, and often do so in unusual and even subversive ways that challenge traditional gender roles. ... Theseus, clearly invested in maintaining the prevailing social order because it advances his own interests.In other words, gender roles and expectations are being stated to this strong female character in no uncertain terms. ... First, Hermia contested traditional gender expectations and mad...

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Within the play Antigone, Sophocles demonstrates many views of gender expectations in Greek life. ... As the new king of Thebes, Creon demonstrated his expectations that men are the primary actors in Greek society and that his word of law should never be questioned even if it isn't that of the gods. ... In a way, she was a rebel to the social norm and the standards of gender specific expectations and actions. ... Both sisters vary greatly in their respective attributes, Ishmene illustrated that she was a women who fit the bill of a women with femininity in society, where Antigone challen...

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In my talk I will be discussing psychological phenomena and disorders that are particularly prevalent among females as well as overview how sociocultural views and expectations have influenced and continue to influence today the mental health of women; affecting their overall physical and psychological well-being. ... Being a teenager is difficult because society tends to put a lot of pressure and expectations that are impossible for one to keep up with. ... In their model we can understand that girls who have expectations of helplessness (i.e. having not control over life choices), who hare ...

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Every institution in society functions and regenerates these expectations, families, schools, businesses, the media, the law and politics. ... In this sense socialisation can be problematic, an individuals gender construction may be based on inequality or the expectations of the socialising agents within a greater ideological society. ... Finally, educational institutions are areas where many excellent studies and research into gender inequality have occurred, however, this has been discussed at great length in other summative work thus will not be mentioned further here. ... It's ...

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Question What are the main ideas of Cooper Thompson's "We Should Reject Traditional Masculinity" and how do they work or not work in the movie/play "Billy Elliot?" Response Cooper Thompson discusses the stereotypical definition of masculinity in his article "We Should Reject Traditional Masculinity...

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Anh put the rent on the table next to the bar-cash, the restaurant-cash, and the cabaret-cash, mounting, heaping great big blocks of bills like brick-a mason laying a foundation. ... In America you will become a great engineer." ... His anger towards the land is a reflection of his unmet expectations for Saigon and his limited emotional capacity to deal with his guilt. ... The importance of gender and hegemonic masculinity are clear within the dynamics of Andrew's family in that there are expectations based on age, violence is ...

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The sexes are different because their brains are different. (Moir, 1991) In the past ten years, there have been many researches concerning what makes the sexes different. Remarkably, these doctors, scientists, psychologists, and sociologists are not working together but still have arrived at a ve...

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The expectations and rules of the male and female roles in society have always been explicitly laid out. ... Yet, despite these great strides of feminism in the United States, there will always be obvious and unfair distinctions between men and women. ... Everyday we are faced with so many expectations and demands of society and everyday we are judged and sometimes even do the judging. ...

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Therefore, he will not be able to be intimate with those women who he has great respect and affection for, since they will effectively remind him of his mother. ... I stated above that a man chooses to marry someone whom he has great respect and affection for. ... This results in a great overvaluation of his wife. ... (Nietzsche 147) These things result in the woman once again feeling as if she has done something wrong, when really all she has done is conform to the expectations set forth by society. ... Yet as wonderful as this rebellion from the norms of society sounds, it is very diffi...

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Gender roles influence women and men in virtually every area of life including family and occupation, but are women and men subject to different roles or behavior expectations? ... This was accomplished on one level by preventing women from gaining the sort of education offered to men, and while this has changed to a great extent in the United States, there are still inequalities in the opportunities offered to men as opposed to women. ... While it is true men and women's roles in the workplace are becoming closer in equality, there is still a great amount of room for improvement. ...

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Women sacrificed their lives with their personal plans to improve the lifestyles and behavior of the expectations of all woman during that period and consistently lead to the future. ... Positions that were intended for men were taken up by women and resulting in great achievements. ...

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Men had to provide for the helpless females, males were chivalrous and took great pride in being the head and protector of the household. Along with society expectations there were sexual beliefs that men had. ...

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This notion of social variables also ties in with a concept in the article Common Assumptions about Childhood by Perry Noodleman and Mavis Reimer "In this world, each child is his or her own person, an individual being whose values and abilities are influenced both by heredity and by environment; an environment that inevitably includes specific and highly variable class positioning, gender expectations and so on" "(Noodleman and Reimer, 90). ... It can be argued that adults have a great impact on children as they are growing up. ... Adult agendas and nostalgia have a great impact on childhood ...

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Based on the interpretation provided by Al-Hibri, a Middle Eastern feminist, the need to have a son is great because it is believed that through the son the family name would be carried on in future generations. ... In fact the doctor says that the family eventually does come to get the mother and child but this is done to show their displeasure and also is a disciplinary action so that in future she meets their expectations (6). ...

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It may have been this very statement which sparked a women's rights revolution, prying open a door that would eventually lead women into societal places they'd never been: CEO's, doctors, ministers, great leaders, athletes, and wives and mothers. ... She believed that women should not conform to what society expected them to be but instead form their own expectations of themselves. ...

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In modern media, we are seeing a change in how women are represented and I guess it could be said that the way in which women are portrayed in modern media is a great stride in comparison to the roles that they once had. ... Some might argue that Wonder Woman is a great feminist icon as she is strong, independent and her life does not revolve around the dictates of a man. ... Men will continue to have unrealistic expectations of their female counterparts as they will expect them to act exactly like the characters seen on TV. ...

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The present time offers a great variety of these "ciphers " and therefore gives people a large number of opportunities to reveal their identity. ... Malcolm Barnard in his book "Fashion as communication " makes a great work by outlining cultural roles, rules, rituals, and responsibilities that are maintained and constructed by fashion [Barnard 13,34]. ... Women, have a great impact on the development of fashion worldwide. ... Therefore women may cause desirable reaction by knowing the expectations of the "opponent ". ... Analyzing the way of dressing today it is necessary to say that "fashion...

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The fact that Louisa willingly released the hand Joe Dagget, who was undeniably husband material and considered a "catch" for any single woman, reinforces the point that she was rebelling against the norms and expectations of society. ... "(661) What is interesting is that Freeman describes death as something great which happened to Louisa. She is advocating for women's freedom through the death of her family, when Louisa comes to recognize the great path of independence, and becomes a strong symbol of the strength of a woman as she is able to thrive on her own. ... Freeman develops ...

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When Jackson emphasizes society's "misrepresentations regarding the number of humans who do not conform to [society's] sexed expectations, intersex individuals are seen as 'outliers', 'mistakes'.... I agree that single-sex education isn't for everyone, but for those for whom it works great things can happen. ...

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She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. ... Nora's pampered lifestyle is at great odds with Mrs. ...

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Take this scenario and throw in an argument over beer tasting great or being less filling and you have the latest Miller Lite commercial. ... The unobtainable expectations set by the male advertisers are killing more women every year than the AIDS epidemic (Wolf 88). ...

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In mostly every culture, parents' expectations of appropriate behaviour in teenage girls often exclude overt sexual activity, whereas for boys it is permitted or overlooked (Garrett 10). ... Both males and females do better in countries with great gender equality (Hall 5). ...

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