When the body evolves and is capable of reproduction, the crucial difference between a male and female becomes more apparent, thus, clearly separating a girl from a boy. ... There are other facets to determining a gendered body apart from physical attributes. ... What process produces adult gendered bodies? ... Dressing up (clothing that parents choose for their children to wear to school) and playing dress-up (a game where children experiment with different types of costumes or clothes, have it be female or male) are both ways in which children identify with one gender or another. ... Solu...

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Male Dominance Exposed! ... In advertisements with mixed genders, the same male dominant, female submissive role is apparent. ... One ad in particular, for Revlon nail polish, shows a man and a woman grinding on each others hips and grabbing each others bodies, like they are having intercourse on the dance floor. ... Sandra Lipsitz Bem explains this point perfectly: Both women and men see the female in general and the female body in particular as more the object of male sexual desire than as a desiring sexual subject (or agent). ... An even more harsh reality to the exploitation of the...

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We find that Winterson plays with the ambiguity of desire, sex and gender as a parallel of male and female. ... The reader looks for an evidence in order to determine if the narrator is female or male, which we will never know. ... This can be related with the idea of cultural stereotypes giving meaning to a body and being associated with female or male gender. ... We can argue that Winterson's definition of identity being a human being rather than a man or woman can also be seen as a celebration of the female body and, at times, a condemnation of the male body. ... According to Butler, &...

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Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbolically married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female state, when there is a female head of state, the symbolic body is inverted, "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the rest, but that the eyes were in the hands, the tongue and mouth b...

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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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Throughout the twentieth century, a substantial body of research has been devoted to exploring gender differences in various cognitive processes. ... The presence of androgens in early life produces a "male" brain. ... That is, they integrate more details of the world around them, details ranging from the nuances of body posture to the position of objects in a room13. ... The Male Mind As a general rule, men tend to focus on one thing at a time12. ... Women tend to be more adept at multitasking then their male counterpart. ...

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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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In my paper I want to look at how masculinity and sport function as the root of male violence as well as physical dominance, and how the media further portrays male violence as a part of our society. ... (Horrock1995: 154) This shows us that male violence with in the field of sport is considered ok allowing popular male athletes the freedom to commit violent acts with less punishment. ... In this fashion homosexuality in our society is the least male attribute. ... This statement shows that young males tend to find security among other males and athletics. ... Throughout this century, a ...

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American Women have been contributing their services to the male driven military since the beginning of its creation. ... Army's 72 hour long final training exercises suggest that there are no differences in success for either male or female soldiers. ... This improvement shows the potential women have for upper body and cardiovascular strength and endurance. ... Men, on average, are bigger than women, with a higher lean body mass-to-fat ratio. ... In the words of male soldiers that were interviewed by the Combat Studies Institute. ...

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Susan Bordo's "Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body," and Judith Butler's "Besides Oneself," discusses societal norms but with differing opinions, styles, and organization of text. ... In the beginning of her essay, Susan Bordo approaches the external body by discussing the overall appearance of one's self (in particular male models) and the judgment of others that comes hand in hand with one's physical appearance. ... For example, the nearly nude Calvin Klein male model whose ass cheeks are flaunted right in your face is juxtaposed next to her thoughts and ideas on male m...

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Hormones are chemical messengers, they send massages from glands around the body, which triggers a response in other parts of our anatomy. ... Each chromosome contains thousands genes and each gene contains specific information about how part of the body will be formed. Genes are responsible for almost every aspect of the human body, from hair colour to the development of our organs, organs like the brain and it is within the brain were the biggest changes take place when our bodies under go their sexual metamorphous, during sexual maturation. ... By comparison, the manufacture of oestrogen wi...

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In "Sex and Bodies of Religion", Kripal talks about another issue, patriarchy. ... This is the first time I actually thought about the fact that "female" and "women" have "male" and "men" in them. ... Bynum claims that female religious experience was different from that of a male because it involved her body. ... A female is constantly taking care of a body, whether it be the body of her offspring, or the burial of a dead family member. ... The teacher shows them a picture of the human body, but covers up the genitals. ...

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In fact, males are so much more muscular than females, that muscle makes up over 38% of their body composition, in comparison to just under 27% in females (Dixson, 2009). ... While females tend to be less muscular than males, they also tend to have a much higher production and storage of adipose/fat, with women having a body composition of 43.6% fat, in comparison to men who have just over 28% (Dixson, 2009). ... This deposition of fat, as well as the expansion of the pelvic bone, creates an hourglass figure for most women, which is very distinctive from a male's more muscular body shape ...

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They are a threat to the masculinity of the male characters by showing their power, beauty, or cruelty. ... This analysis is going to demonstrate that the threat of the female takes two different forms: the threat of the heroine and the threat of the female body. ... King Solomon's Mines show the characters' journey inside a female body and features a beautiful female character, while the journey in She takes place on the surface of the female body and the main female character is an ugly and malevolent figure. ... They describe the land as if it was a female body. ... Finally, I wi...

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However, first, we must analyze paradoxes; in The Girl Before a Mirror male and female contadictions exist. ... The figure on the right has a male head but a very female lower half while the figure as a whole again has the form of an erect penis, the girl's buttocks doubling as male testicles. ... Picasso appears to be looking for a solution to the male-female conundrum: in order to be attracted to man woman must presumably contain some male element. ... In "The Mirror" Picasso uses these thick, overpowering lines to convey, by contrast with the lightness of the flesh, a female body afla...

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Nicole Johnson, an editor of the Athens Oracle, states that "because male students may find parts of the female body... distracting, girls cannot wear [certain items of clothing], regardless of how tasteful they may be" (Dress Code Unfairly Targets Females). In this article, she is hinting that the female body is the reason that males are unable to concentrate in the classroom setting. ... [authorities of] dress code tend to police girls for how much of their bodies are visible" (How Schools Skirt Around Sexism). ... The focus is placed so heavily on females, that a male who vio...

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They may provide the partial answer in the difference of the sexes but the answer lies in a more important part of our body - the brain. The brain is one of the most vital organs of our body. ... The male are superior in this ability. ... A fetus will only come out male if the male hormones are present and a fetus can only come out as a female if the male hormones are absent. ... A newborn male rat was castrated therefore making the male hormones absent. ...

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"Proportionality is a gender quota that mandates that the gender breakdown of a school's athletic program match the gender split of the student body. ... If not, then some male athletes have to be eliminated" (Gavora). This presents the problem of interest: if the afore mentioned proportion of 55 percent female student body does not does not show a proportional amount of interest, while the 45 percent male students show a greater interest than the females, the male students will not be afforded the opportunity to participate because the numbers will show t...

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Analyzing this from a male-dominated western culture perspective, the traditional Venus is both sexually and gender feminine. ... Willendorf served as a comforting example to the male-controlled culture. ... Every woman dreams of an ideal weight, height, and size and body shape. ... In pop culture, the producers mainly use their body look, body dynamism and voice to attract the audience. ... Women are getting more involved in roles that were male dominated such as top executives and physical jobs. ...

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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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The females do the movement of crossing their leg on the other one and crossing their arms over their body which is a protection device, also a close of sexuality and then opening. ... This illustrates the male as showing off. ... It consists of only one male dancer and three females. ... By crossing and uncrossing her body we are shown a sexual freedom. ... The male is more dominant here as he is gaining back power. ...

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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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It seems that there is a pervasive fear among all males that the worst possible insult is to be labelled a female. ... As boys grow older, their bodies develop and they enter junior high and high school. ... I have covered the socialisation process showing how physical ability is objectified and legitimated in males. ... Invariably you will find on the cover, men flaunting their toned, muscular bodies, and often you will find them with a seductively beautiful and toned woman by their side. These toned and muscled men are seen and depicted by society as the ideal body type for men. ...

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This legitimization teaches males that boys and men are not allowed to cry. ... As boys grow older, their bodies develop and they enter junior high and high school. ... Invariably you will find on the cover, men flaunting their toned, muscular bodies, and often you will find them with a seductively beautiful and toned woman by their side. ... But are males more prone to 'toughness' and masculinity than women? ... In general, males are much more aggressive than females. ...

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The difference between male and female humans begins genetically. ... Males are generally larger which is thought to be due to evolution and the males being the protectors of the group. ... Females have greater body fat and mature faster, they are more sensitive to touch, pain, smell, and hearing. ... A male has more facial and body hair than females. ... The amount of hair or body parts covered is all aspects of where you live and what you believe to be sufficient or intolerable. ...

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