In Louis Sachar's award winning book Holes, we see gender biases in many characters. The first and most obvious bias in this book can be found in the way Sachar's characters address Mr. ... Finally we have Earl, who is such a hollow character that I truly believe he is merely Coman'sout? ... He is not developed as a character nor does he give any insight into the situation he encounters and therefore can be disregarded as a tertiary character either passive or emotionally absent from the world around him. ... Van strikes me much the same way the Warden does in Holes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her character as a woman is somewhat different from Effie's. ... Iva was seen as a suspicious character in film as well. ... 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." ... The male characters took on their position as masculine characters as the feminine characters came into the story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

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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...

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