Historically, differences between men and women have usually been ascribed to biology; that is, men's bodies appear with penis, no breasts, no hip, no body hair, and short hair. Women's bodies, oppositely, appear with vulva, breasts, hip, no body hair, and long hair. ... This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female body". ... The separation between public and private normalizes the male preponderance in the public sphere of politic, the higher value placed on mal...

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Over sexualization of the female body. ... In a study made by PBS it was found that "exposure of body parts is usually coded high for sexualization, but does not always register. ... It may not be something we can change right now but it is something we must try to change because it is awful to set standards on someone's body. ... Women's upper body is of the same anatomy as that of men yet we are censored for having more fatty tissue on our breast. ... And in this case it goes for both instances of female and male rape. ...

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Only sixteen percent of male respondents identified as feminist (Swanson, 1998). ... The conversation about sexism in the workforce is substantiated by the fact that women in America make less than their male counterpart, and less women find the workforce an encouraging place to enter because of its reputation of male dominance. ... Instead of teaching people to be comfortable with their bodies as long as they are in a healthy condition, women are shown to have perfect curves that are disproportionate to their slim waistlines while men have large, toned muscles and six percent body fat. ... Fe...

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An anonymous blogger demonstrates the general consensus feminists have on abortion with the post "as my body is not your body, you are not entitled to tell me how to use my body. ... The female also dictates the social and economic future of the impregnating male. ... This inconvenience does not change the fact that the lack of male input in making the decision goes against the fundamentals of gender equality. ... The article was full of studies and quotes of university females proclaiming arrogance in male expectations, but when she had the chance to prove a fault in a prominent male, th...

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At the same time, the camera focuses a lot on Kane's body, studying it. Much like a mother would study her new born baby's body. (3 min). ... Using sexual domination, this showing male powerlessness. ... At the end of this scene when Ash is taken down, his body spews out what appears to be human semen. ... The camera looks her up and down, making the audience gaze at her body from a low angle. ...

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In this case these are the results of observation of the current situation of our type of female-male relations, which continues to be such even on a fundamental field of democratization - public authority. ... The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ...

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In our society there are such systems and structures that postulate social ways to define and organize gender, to know what to expect of each gender and what opportunities are available or not available to females and males. ... As a matter of fact, the culture associated with the gender system, proposes differences in gender roles and expectations, hence oppressing inequality between female and male. ... At the same time, women, whose body parts are being separated from her as a person, are considered to be the physical object of male's uncontrolled driven sexuality. ... The concept of s...

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However, in the 1970s this term acquired its feminist meaning when Kate Millet used it to describe male domination over women (LeGates, 2001: 12). She stated that "every avenue of power within society -military, technology, university, police etc- rests in the hands of males" (LeGates, 2001: 12). ... From birth, women were trained to be subservient to male authority (LeGates, 2001: 14). ... Women were vulnerable to male violence ranging from sexual abuse, wife beating and rape to culturally enforced heterosexuality (LeGates, 2001: 17). ... Justifications of women's subordination were expl...

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The many supporters of the first wave of feminism, both male and female, lobbied for women's suffrage. ... The dominance approach states that whatever differences exist between men and women should not be interpreted as inequalities in order for male dominance. ... A feminist could argue that a woman has the right to do as she pleases with her own body, i.e., pornography or prostitution. Given this, not allowing a woman to do with her body as she pleases could be seen as an act of oppression by a patriarchal society. ... In some cases, absolutely, women are forced into being a traditional...

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But, in a male dominated world, masculine tendencies are utilized and associated with power. ... But as women moved into the workforce, they found that to be successful in their career, they would have to model male behavior. In Holly Devor's essay, "Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender," she supports this claim of modeling male behavior. ... In Ortiz Cofer's essay, "The Story of My Body," she illustrates the hardships she dealt with growing up as a "white" person in Puerto Rico, and a "dark" person in America, being the daughter of a Puerto Rican mo...

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Beauty confronts the beast when they both expose their naked bodies to one another and the laws associated with identity and fear collapse. ... Ironically in the end beauty has the dominant character in respect to the male character, as the heroine is mentally strong, in control, and she actively orchestrates her situation on her own terms. Strangely the entire main characters in The Werewolf' are female, but usually in fairytales there is also a dominant male character. ...

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Beauty confronts the beast when they both expose their naked bodies to one another and the laws associated with identity and fear collapse. ... Ironically in the end beauty has the dominant character in respect to the male character, as the heroine is mentally strong, in control, and she actively orchestrates her situation on her own terms. Strangely the entire main characters in The Werewolf' are female, but usually in fairytales there is also a dominant male character. ...

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Sexism, stereotypes and poor body image. ... Studies have shown that women are more likely than men to have a poor body image. This is because women are often subjected to ideal body images throughout the media; which set unrealistic goals. ... Everyone is unique in both their mind and body and these goals unattainable by most prevent people from being themselves. ... A prime example of a company currently doing this is Lammily - a new line of children's doll which uses the average female body to create a realistic body figure; the motto, "Average is beautiful"9. ...

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To use sex as a variable means to ask whether it makes a difference whether an actor or a subject is male or female. For gender theorist this ought to mean asking whether biological differences alone (be they hormonal, muscular or variations in height/weight/body-fat ratios) make a difference in the dependent variable. ... Where sex is about maleness or femaleness (measured in biological difference) gender is about masculinity & femininity, measured in socially constructed & contextually contingent ideas about what attitudes, attributes & behaviours correspond to ideal-type maleness...

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A woman's entire life was controlled by the male gender whether it be father, husband or even son. Males in this era were characterized as "active, progressive, and defensive" (V&A Museum). ... Kristeva argues that "the symbolic language is the language of power, associated with patriarchy, such expressions, 'my' and 'little' are the preferably adopted lexemes of the male gender" (Kristeva). ... Moi states, "the doll becomes a wild woman, with the loose hair of a fallen womanThis suggests that Nora has appropriated her own body, which was tr...

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In basic terms, the society is male dominated, and women are slaves to this. ... This government run brothel is another means by which the elite male sector uses women in Gilead. ... Bilhah does not have a say in her own reproductive functions, and Rachel is a woman who proposes the use of another woman's body for her own purposes which reflects the relationship between Wife and Handmaid. ... The Ceremony is an assertion of female power, as well as male. ... Angels and Guardians, all male, hold more power than a Handmaid, but they must not look during the women's walk around the Red ...

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She has then given an opening for male enemy to outwit and vanquish her in the ceaseless natural conflict. ... Throughout her analyses, she claims that Hobbes" notion of sovereignty requires the inferior position of women at the time of the contract to form the commonwealth and consequently, announces that the whole participants in the contract are male. ... In De Corpore Politico he rejects the identification of man with body or aggregate of accidents. ...

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In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male and female readers to approach her writings with respect " (218). ... Although this const...

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In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male and female readers to approach her writings with respect " (218). ... Although this const...

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(Hansen 275) I believe that once again Chaucer is using the Wife as an expression of his antifeminist agenda by showing how this answer to what women want is the perceived answer of a male author trying to personify his thoughts in a woman fictional character. So then, we see the answer to the other question that Hansen asks: Should women reject this traditional definition of power as one-upmanship and affirm some alternative set of values, in which case we might see the Wife as a male-identified woman, a gull, and a failure? (275) The Wife of Bath is a prime example of a female character...

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Employees try to achieve managerial expectations by working hard at promoting and serving customers during nighttime operations in order to satisfy the student body, which populates the majority of the business during weekends. ... For example, through personal observation it is evident that the majority of kitchen staff are male, and that the vast majority of serving staff are female. ... It's also worth note that the majority of management staff is male, and act as the "dominant " position in the hierarchy of the workplace. ... While for male employees this has the potential to occur, i...

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.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. ... Unless it cuts almost half of its current male athletes, Howard will remain under a Title IX cloud and legally vulnerable.... And unlike many of the male scholarship athletes who are in football and basketball, most of these women got real degrees and planned throughout to enter "real" jobs. ... Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as: equip, games, tutoring. ...

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Faludi tends to look at the sexual discrimination between male and female where as Paglia tends to comment on discrimination between races and social classes. ... As she goes on to describe rape as being "a symbol of the horrors and mysteries of the body-. ... Faludi tends to direct her article towards a male/female relationship where as Paglia directs her article between the social classes. ... Why do men receive more finical aid than women do, just because they are male? ...

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Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. ... As a female director in an otherwise male-dominated 1950s Hollywood, perhaps Lupino's most arduous task was to make her films stand out from the classic Hollywood mode and her ambiguity and subject matter both aid in achieving this goal. ... "Some of these topics alone, and the naturalistic style of her films "even if they have an occasional upbeat ending "are enough to make Lupino something of an anomaly in the 1950s- and an investigation of Lupino's characte...

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Aristotle states that those who possess natural insight should rule those who use their body for labor, and that this relationship is beneficial to both. ... He compares how some people rule over others to the way a soul rules over a body. ... He states that a statesman rules over free people, a master rules slaves, and a household is ruled by the eldest male. ...

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