"Both males and females encounter gender expectations and pressures in schools from kindergarten through graduate and professional school." ... Great differences can be found in gender communication in our personal, social, academic and family lives on regular basis. ... (Levitch and Gable, 2005)  The teachers also chose books, which had the same amount of female and male characters.  ... According to the teachers, most stores have characters that are male and their roles are stereotyped.  ... They often assign reading books meant to induce sympathy for the feelings of characters with probl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through means of reversal, Chaucer leads his main female character down the road of maleness. ... The reader first meets the pilgrims in the General Prologue (GP), where Chaucer provides subtle indications to the type of character he describes. ... Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... The one weakness that comes forward in the WB character is when she steps out of the male role back into the fema...

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She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. ... At the end of her essay Mulvey establishes three 'looks' in which this scopophilic dialectic can take place: between the camera and what is being shot, betwe...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate