Gender and identity, gender stereotyping and discrimination in culture, education, family, etc., gender representation in literary works belonging to the different ages, gender equity and equity, sexual harassment, media or society’s role in shaping gender views, and many others are common gender issues.
Gender is a very significant and powerful aspect for any human being and the way it is defined / felt at individual level ultimately impacts society in its entirety, which is why it is important to study these subjects. Feel free to look at our gender comparison papers – they can be an inspiration / a guide for your own essay.
“In any case, Niss Moses (once again) raises a ruckus on this score, asking why we don’t have a corresponding word for young whiteys who play blackeys’ games and generally manifest a desire to be blacks. Well, Niss Moses, if this were a common phenomenon, we most assuredly would have such a word, but it … Read more
Introduction The visual cover image for the November 26, 2013 National Basketball Association (NBA) Indiana Pacers basketball player Paul George for Eastbay catalogs for athletic products advertisements; Eastbay is well known for it’s athletic apparel and sports equipment. The purpose of this image is to reach all the men that can afford name brand clothes … Read more
This play, performed by only two people, was able to captivate our attention from the moment we sat down to the closing curtains. There were plenty of moments of confusion- some questions which were answered along the way and some that were left still lingering in my mind. Is Tyesha (the one in the drivers … Read more
The Kebra Nagast is an ancient sacred text of Ethiopia. In the myth the Jewish King Solomon (1000 BCE) and his contemporary, the Queen of Sheba fall in love. The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece written by Murasaki Shikibu. This novel is considered the first great novel in the history of world literature. In … Read more
While Miss Brill in “Miss Brill”, Dee and Mama in “Everyday Use”, and Marji in “Persepolis,” are women of different cultures and ethnicities, their roles as women is faced with similar gender inequalities. Some might argue that women are treated as an equal gender with the same amount of opportunity as men. However, Miss Brill, … Read more
A critical analysis of rape culture in Jill Filipovic’s Offensive Feminism and Jessica Valenti’s Purely Rape article What is rape culture? This issue is prevalent in contemporary society, especially on university campuses. Filipovic blames this prevalence on “religious conservatives” (13); they want men to remain the most dominant sex while women remain submissive to these … Read more
“For I born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to Kate comfortable as household Kates. ” -Petruchio All that Taming Of The Shrew screams to its viewers, is the misogyny of Elizabethan times and the bitter resentment the church had for women. “It’s the story of a ‘shrewish’ woman who … Read more
Imagine yourself waking up every morning and realizing that you have to literally avoid death from the moment you wake up till the time you are supposedly safe at home. Imagine that you’re told by many people, who you love, that you’re a sin and that you will burn in hell. Imagine that everyday the … Read more
Marriage. This word carries a large amount of weight behind it. For better or worse, for sick or poor, and until death do we part. That’s a lot pressure for one word. Mankind was created imperfect. Humans aim to be flawless, but in reality we are flawed beyond compare. As humans we lie, have impulses, … Read more
A day in the life of a teenager, what a waste. Alternatively, from another perspective, the life of the mother of a teenage delinquent. Tyler creates a rounded character within the writings of “Teenage Wasteland” in Daisy, the mother of the delinquent, and mostly disrespectful, teenager, Donny. From the beginning of the short story to … Read more
The Japanese Edo period is the time between 1603 and 1868 when ancient Japan was under the leadership of Tokugawa Shogunate. The period was marked with strict social order. One of the notable strict orders during this period was the rules that guided the marriage of women. There was a marriage between the higher authorities … Read more
Identity is created by the factors all around us, and also how we respond to them. In the article by Beverly Tatum titled The Complexity of Identity: “Who Am I? ” she discusses how we as a society can get past our differences through understanding who we are. She gives multiple examples of how we … Read more
The actions one takes are overlooked due to the rules created by society. Gender roles are norms created by society that dictate the behaviour of each gender. The main types of gender stereotypes are personality traits, domestic behaviours, and physical appearance. In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the protagonist, Macbeth, gets very ambitious about … Read more
Soaked, little, and naked is how the viewer finds Susanna in the middle of Girl, Interrupted. Or rather, soaked, little, naked, and hysterical. A state James Mangold utilizes to further illustrate his message. The film serves as a vehicle for Mangold to discuss madness and the society it exists within. Valerie, the asylum’s registered nurse, … Read more
The Characters’ Gender Issues with the Role of Helpers In “Whispers in the Graveyard,” the author decided on a boy Solomon as the central character that she thought that more boys have learning problems (Breslin), same in “The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler” that Kemp portrays the character Danny who deals with learning difficulties as … Read more
A fairy tale is a short story that typically includes fantasy characters; known to be one of the most well-read genres, including ‘classic’ tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty. However, this popular genre has influenced the roles of men and women. In our society men and women are … Read more
Were you discriminated against for promotion because of your age and gender? Brief answer Yes; Arthur King discriminated against you Ima Shewin by not giving you the promotion that she was qualified for because of your age and gender. This act and how Arthur King conducted himself at the interview and based on his reputation … Read more
From the earliest civilizations, societies everywhere have been dominated by the patriarchy. However, the level of degree of male dominance and social structure in society did differ between the civilizations. The Roman Empire and Han Dynasty were no exception to this. Both ancient civilizations were similar in the respect that from birth, girls were treated … Read more
In House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski it discusses the experiences everyone endures once entering the house, although the people that enter the house are primarily males as the reader I become part of the book. Resembling to the characters we all symbolize something different, however by the end the characters all become interconnected by … Read more
Representation of Gender in Invisible Man and Scarlet Letter Both Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) and Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne share some common themes. In Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne addresses the suffering that emerges from sin, especially the sin of adultery that leads to isolation of sinners. The plot revolves around two female characters … Read more
“A girl’s confidence plummets during puberty. ” In the “Like a Girl” campaign commercial, Always sends a message on vulnerability that during puberty words and stereotypes can have lasting effects on girls and their confidence. It is obvious throughout the commercial that a point is being made about women and their common stereotype. Even the … Read more
With music we can express the feelings that are hard to express with everyday language. An example of this is Bessie Smith’s song, “Thinking Blues. ” (McClary). In the song she is singing about how much she misses and wants her man to take her back, how she will do just about anything to take … Read more
The 1950s was an exciting time for many, the war was over and the economy began to flourish once more. Men were back home and ready to work and women were back to doing their womanly duties again (cooking and cleaning) this reflected the social position of the women following the war. The 1950s was … Read more
Technology and its Effect on Modern Relationships “Monogamy isn’t realistic” (Trainwreck) is a recurring theme in Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance. Ansari’s argument is that with the ever growing influence of technology in modern relationships/dating it is ridiculous to expect you and/or your partner to remain monogamous. Here enters the idea of monogamish relationships; “the couple … Read more
Given that the Shiji is a framework for China’s early imperial political thought, it can be used to demonstrate the influence of women on politics during the rule of the Han dynasty. Empress Lu, in particular, is a key component to the understanding of these roles, since she was the only woman who reigned for … Read more
What does your critical analysis of the website reveal to you about Cindy Jackson’s sense of her social self, her self-concept, her self-esteem and her self-presentation? Based on what I have seen from the website, I am under the impression that Cindy Jackson had a very low self-esteem as she was growing up. It appears … Read more
“Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak. ” ~ Code Of Hammurabi. In ancient mesopotamian society kings had a divine relationship … Read more
Introduction The issue that has been persistent for as long as one can remember is Misogyny in the society. The belief that women are inferior to men has been contaminating the human mind. The issue can be commonly seen in the society in form of domestic abuse, violence, objectification in name of advertisements, and especially … Read more
In this essay I will discuss the ways in which the story of King Horn and the stories of the saint’s lives from the Katherine Group can be read as representations of the way women were treated and gender roles were viewed in the medieval period. I will do this by analysing the stories and … Read more
The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, is a book a young woman trying to develop her own identity. Throughout this book, Kingston spends countless days trying to find herself in the cruel world. In a culture where men superiority rules, Kingston attempts to recognize herself as her own person, and not as a slave. … Read more
Reading Assignment: Sexuality in Carmilla Le Fanu’s story of Carmilla has been adapted as a web series, in which the setting is modern day society at a college campus. Laura remains the narrator of the thirty-six-episode season, where she records all events from her dorm room as part of her journalism class. The web series … Read more
Iris Marlon Young was a feminist and a philosopher that wrote an essay titled “throwing like a girl” which was published in 1980, “We often experience our bodies as a fragile encumbrance, rather than the media for the enactment of our aims. We feel as though we must have our attention directed upon our bodies … Read more
A few months ago, a Harvard senior named Reina Gattuso wrote a column in the school newspaper. It described her crummy night of drunken sex with a couple of men she didn’t know. “I have so much to drink my memory becomes dark water,” she wrote. She freely admitted that she consented. Enthusiastically. And that … Read more
Remember how boys and girls used to separate at each ends of the dance floor? That was the time when everyone was tentative of the first dance experience and was uncomfortable with the existence of the opposite sex. At the ends of the stretched out dance floor were two clearly separated groups of boys and … Read more
A second dimension of the argument is identified in this study, in that Kolbe and Muehling refer to research by Bandura, Eisenstock and Barkley et al. (1977). These established studies indicated that the gender-appropriateness of the observed behaviour is the most critical dimension in predicting how children respond to the role-portrayals presented to them. The … Read more
The answer to that is not so simple. Gender is what culture makes out of the raw material of biological sex, (Unger and Crawford, 1995). Also, there is a difference between what is gender identity and what is a gender role; a difference which seems to be even more difficult to differentiate between than the … Read more
Gender & sexuality is an important issue that differs from one country to another, two regions that are very distinct and general are the Arab world and the Western World. Both these regions are heavily populated and both these areas have totally different views concerning gender & sexuality. The Western view towards sexuality is normally … Read more
According to dictionary. com, gender is defined as “the condition of being female or male. ” Gender and Sexuality conjure up images of the male and female and the roles that each sex is supposed to fulfill. Of the two forces (Biology and Environment) influencing human development, especially gender, environment is more influential. Environment is … Read more
The material on Gender Inequities that I found is a web page that discusses strategies to reduce or eliminate gender inequities in Science. It is basically a list of tactics discussing techniques on how to help girls overcome their anxieties in science. This web page came from the NCREL Internet site which stands for North … Read more
A study done in 2008 suggested gender-based abortion is being practiced in the united States; the report was published in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences. Laws against gender-based abortions exist In only four states, Arizona, Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. Florida Is currently considering such legislation. Arizona is the only state that has … Read more
