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Papers On Gender & Society
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Female Androgynous Adolescents: Better Self-Image Than Being Either Very Masculine Or Very Feminine Girls?
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8 pages in length. When it comes to social acceptance, there exist some very strict guidelines: An individual is either male or female. Indeed, little room for approval is given for those who do not fall into one of these two confining categories, often forcing people to assume roles that abide by social dictates. Female adolescents are particularly susceptible to issues of androgyny as they relate to self-image and overall social acceptance. One can readily argue that those female adolescents who display androgynous tendencies do not, in fact, feel better about themselves than if they were either very masculine or very feminine girls, inasmuch society places much too much pressure for an individual to offer a clear and recognizable distinction between the two portrayals. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Female Emancipation in “Jane Eyre”
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the emancipation of the female in Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre”. Through the eyes and mind of Jane, women gain a free perspective of the social, intellectual, financial and sexual restrictions of the Victorian era. Other characters are also used as examples of the different restrictions represented in Bronte’s society.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Female Film Directors; The Gender Difference
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This 9 page paper examines the position of female directors. The paper argues that today, just as in the past, the only way in which a woman can succeed as a director is to compromise her views in order to comply with male expectations, or find a back door into the industry. This is considered from the first female director Alice Guy Blache up to the modern day. This trend is also seen as a global phenomena and not limited to only the western world. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Female Sexual Images in The Media and Advertising
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This 5 page paper considers how images of woman are sexualised in the mainstream media. The paper considers three women magazines and the use of female images in advertisements and marketing. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Female Sexuality in Society
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A 5 page essay that looks at articles by Naomi Wolf and Maxine H. Kingston in order to discuss the way that controlling female sexuality has largely dictated the way that society reacts to women. The writer argues that throughout history women have been restricted from being active participants in society and were controlled by social customs that eventually evolved into law. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Female Wage and Labor Differentials in Canada: History, Difference in Labor Markets, The Wage Gap, General Discrimination and Trends
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This is a 12 page paper discussing wage and labor differentials for women in Canada. Within Canada today, women in the labor force generally make 70 to 80 cents for every dollar men make. This “wage gap” has actually decreased greatly over the years but still has a long way to go for total equity in the work place despite positive legislation in the 1970s and 1980s. Historically, women within Canada have been “crowded” into certain female-dominated professions such as clerical positions, nursing, teaching, domestic work, social work and sales and services. While clerical work once was comparable with male blue-collar jobs in regards to pay, the increase in unionization in many blue-collar trades left most of the female-dominated positions as those which were lower paid. As women shifted away from clerical positions and proceeded to attain degrees in higher education, the wage gap began to decrease but then women encountered the “glass ceiling” in which women held a disproportionate number of positions in the lowest quartile in large corporations. Today, women still have lower average salaries than men despite the gain in higher education. One of the reasons found within studies by Statistics Canada and others is that women who choose to have and raise children lose experience during their absence; experience men continue to gain which in turn leads to more promotions. Another reason believed for the continue wage gap is discrimination which still exists within employers, co-workers and the general population somewhat who still categorize some professions as “female” (such as teaching) and some as “male” (such as the trades) and in essence this restricts female workers from opportunities within the blue collar and higher executive markets.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Feminism and Gender Roles in the 1950s and 1960s
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A 12 page overview of the societal changes which occurred during these two decades in regard to the relationships between men and women. Notes a number of factors combined to effect these changes. These were inclusive of the subservient role of women throughout history, inequalities in the workplace, and the perception of being bound into domesticity. Concludes that to judge the changes in gender roles which occurred during the 1960s is the same as judging any facet of human evolution. The relationship between men and women is no more static than any other aspect of our culture and society. Women had witnessed the breaking down of racial discrimination, and age-old attitudes about sexuality and other barriers, they were ready to implement equal changes in their own lives. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Feminism and John Stuart Mill
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This 5 page paper examines Mill's 1869 The Subjection of Women. Many contemporary examples are used to explore this nineteenth century work. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Feminism And Postmodernism/Postculturalism: What Do They Offer Nursing Scholars Interested In Industry Power Relations?
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4 pages in length. The extent to which feminism and postmodernism/postculturalism have an impact upon nursing scholars who are interested in industry power relations is both grand and far-reaching. That the entire nursing field has developed through the years into a critical component of overall health care speaks to the nature of strength, power, insight and tenacity inherent to the female spirit; in order for nursing scholars to combat the ever-present aspect of male-oriented power relations, it is important for the tenets of feminism and postmodernism/postculturalism to lead the way. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Feminism Through the Centuries
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A 5 page paper which examines how the historical definition of feminism has changed over time, and specifically considers the roles of class conflict, race conflict, generational differences, science and technology in fragmenting the women’s movement through three phases of reform – the middle nineteenth-century, the early twentieth century and the late twentieth century. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Feminism: Gender Categorization Verses the Concept of Sex
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A 5 page discussion of the traditional feminist distinction between sex and gender. Contends that feminists do not deny the biological facts of their bodies, only society’s tendency to lump them into certain societal categories because of their bodies. With the advent of the societal movement we now refer to as feminism, there were dramatic changes in gender roles, the societal expectations for women as opposed to men. While there were changes, however, these changes were not without their problems. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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