Leahy writes: Where significant information on women as a distinct category was to be found--generally in industrial, "developed" nations--there was little and limited evidence to suggest that government proclamations in support of women's equality had found appreciable expression in government practices or in significant progress toward women's equality. ... Also at these conferences, "conferees ascertained that women were rational decision makers when it came to determining family size; women's decisions were conditioned not only by the availability of contraceptive dev...

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Gender roles are frequently based around the ideas that women are expected to be more passive and emotional and men more assertive and rational. ... One of the earliest attempts to start theorising the relationship between rock music and sexuality can be found in an essay written by Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie (1978), in which they argued that rock operated as a form of sexual expression and as a form of sexual control. ... This is not a type of unmediated cultural 'expression' but a conscious and deliberate 'strategy.' ...

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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. ... Throughout her prologue, the Wife of Bath makes it clear that she intends for the reader or listener to view her as a rational, independent woman. ...

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