The subject matter of men and women is timeless. From Adam and Eve, in Genesis 2:4-3:24 to John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus published in 1992, men and women have lived in this perpetual state of battle. Since we live in a world that for a very long time up until recently, had only...
After viewing Ridley Scott's, Alien, one may infer that, like many science fiction films that influence the film, tells the story of man versus nature. Where the nature of the alien is hunting them. Or it is man versus machine, where they are stuck in the space ship to ultimately survive and to kill...
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...
Whether we like it or not, we are heavily influenced by culture, its gender roles and the media. Starting at a young age, children learn how they're supposed to look and act through simple things like the toys they play with. As they grow older, they take on new influences like TV or magazines and l...
