"Both males and females encounter gender expectations and pressures in schools from kindergarten through graduate and professional school." (Wood, 2013) We know how gender stereotyping can begin the moment parents find out the sex of their child. It is basically a cultural habit to give a boy a toy car and a girl a doll. This kick starts the gender stereotypes into gear and thus begins the thought process of what is deemed normal for girls and boys, both in their social and educational lives. Inequality, of gender, in the classroom is believed to be slowly decreasing but this is sti...

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Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the era known as the Middle Ages, an era resembling kings, castles, and knights. Behind the famous kings, magnificence castles, and shining armor were the women. In the shadows, a step behind, and not as enchanting, one can find the tale of the medieval woman. C...

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The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). ... Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, M.D., PhD of the Department of Women and Development Studies of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development, and author of the book Love, Rape, and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse, in her feminist study of fictional love...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

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The juxtaposition of these two statements reveals obvious similarities, further emphasising the influence that the historical condition of scientific advancement had on the construction of the characters in the text. ...

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Bringing a live human being into the world can be very intimidating, especially if it is for the first time. Every parent questions their parenting style whether or not it is because they don't know if their style is effective or if they are being "good" parents in general. Thankfully there are tho...

• Word Count: 2833
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