Gender & Sexual Studies Essays

BuzzFeed created the video If Women's Roles in Movies Were Played by Men in 2014. The 2-minute video tries to figure out how it would look like if men played women's roles in movies. The clip uses scenes from movies such as Titanic, Twilight, Basic Instinct, Wild things, and Pretty woman to show how men can fit in various roles that women have played for many years.

This comprehensive research methodology provides a brief overview of the hypothesis, the research strategy, and the design for the research. The research methods that will be employed to gather the necessary information, followed by the data analysis methods, will also be discussed. At the end of the module, a brief statement about the ethical issues at hand and a conclusive statement will be provided.

This suggests that race, class, and gender oppression are experienced in discrete segments and can be isolated from one another. As mentioned by Dobrowolsky, women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean used historical data to demonstrate that class and race were as powerful as gender in oppressing and exploiting women

The author states that one reason states pass laws is to prevent and/or punish activities that are harmful. Decriminalizing prostitution would, in essence, be saying that it does not cause harm, and is a private matter and not one the state can or should intervene in. Prostitution does cause harm, though, to the prostitute and to society as a whole.

The term gender essentially refers to the meanings that social systems ascribe to female and male categories. All known societies possess such a system, though the components and workings vary widely from society to society. For almost ninety-nine percent of existence, humans have lived as hunter-gatherers.

The author states that Daum’s feelings of negativity are seen throughout the piece, as are how she proficiently uses her own negative experiences throughout the piece to highlight and ultimately make her point. She also uses her own research to get to the truth behind the movement.

However, this research shows that even in that period black women did value their bodies and appearance as they do now in today's time.Through a brief look in history and comparing this today this research brings cohesion into the many thoughts and ideas there have been about how black women were viewed in the past

As a result, Alicia and Diana were forced to work as maids and forever resigned to the bondage of poverty.  Women in the Philippines do not enjoy other rights entitled to them, such as the right to health, to own property and the right to fair wages.  Thus, Maria grew root crops to feed her family, Alicia had to work as nightclub hostess, Richelle had to sell her services as laundry women, and Diana had to sell knick-knacks.                  

Genet and Guibert, both self-confessed homosexuals, reject traditional notions of normalcy, of love, of friendship and, significantly, of truth. They live within the parameters of their own interpretations of reality and as their memoirs are written from an unapologetically subjective perspective, readers are often left confused as to whether they are reading fiction or fact.

The author states that it is usually a member of the majority race that harasses the other. In some cases, the minority person is in a subordinate position and is an easy target for victimization. It is often the case that persons who feel oppressed in that way are expected to resist the oppression.

The celebrated playwright has been effective in creating successful characters in these two plays due to his insistence on the relationship between sexuality and self-awareness in the depiction of characters. Thus, one realizes that the characters Othello and Iago in the play Othello illustrate the connection between sexuality and self-awareness.

The author of the paper states that a dramatic change of increase in the size of the population and density occurred after Neolithic revolution. The Neolithic economy had developed and generated a large supply of food, which led to, a better-nourished and healthier people with a reduced rate of deaths.

Men dictated the ins and outs of their daily life; fathers would control them before they were married and husbands controlled them once they were married. Women had no choice as to whom they would marry.

Mary’s rebellion is mentioned in Chapter XIII when she decides to find out what the crying sound is about. The narration says that; ‘Perhaps the act that she was in a rebellious mood made her bold.’ Colin, being a male, also excises his patriarchy although it is with minor powers. He is confident that he can command his father’s servants to do his bidding.

But if the modern media were to try to describe a beautiful woman, the description might not be far different from a “fairy of filleted flesh”! After all, with each passing day the media are driving more and more women in the West to emaciation in quest of the supposed body beautiful.

The author states that in the majority of families, they are responsible for cooking for the family, looking after the house, the cleanliness of the house and caring for the husband and supporting him emotionally if he is carrying some kind of office stress, to check for the things in the home and to plan about the purchase and shopping.

Assertion is commonly attached to man while intuition is attached to women. Since there is a huge difference on how men and women think, it is often thought that a sex is inferior to the other. However, Turner strongly opposed this discrimination. He argues that women are not to be branded as irrational while men are not cold.

Female productivity suffers because they are de-motivated by the fact that even if they have the same productivity levels as men, they get paid less. They know about how there is discrimination in the workplace and this puts them off. They also see men getting promoted to higher positions while they remain in the same.

We find ourselves asking whether adults are male or female.  It can be hard to tell in certain cases, and it is often the first thing we ask ourselves upon meeting someone for the first time. Naturally, the inability to tell leaves us confused and uncomfortable, and that is because we are so used to gender norms. 

This essay discovers the gender and contemporary art. We often behold works of art through gender prism and realize as well contemporary as ancient art from this point of view: “In real life our culture defines for us appropriate gender roles, roles which are sometimes restrictive and difficult to escape...Gender, after all, is a social construct”.

It is important to state that after using active listening, I felt that the speaker did not clearly understand the statement I had made and therefore had to clearly repeat and elaborate on it. The gap between my and Sherlin’s position regarding sex before marriage narrowed as a result of active listening.

The author states that in response to sexual stimuli the process of vasocongestion occurs, where more blood flows into the penis than is flowing out, and the result will usually be that a man will get an erection. How long this takes, and what the erection feels like will differ from man to man, and for the same man over time.

Film Reviews Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a documentary film released in 1989 narrated by Dustin Hoffman. It follows the story on NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, focusing on various people represented by Quilt panels by combining footage from the archives and personal stories (Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt).

Most of the main theories in criminology were created with the use of male subjects only. Moreover, criminology focuses more on the study of ‘male victimization’. but the principal theories of criminality have been developed from male subjects, have been validated on male subjects, and focus on male victimization.

Although a Japanese woman can be fearsome and they are the angels of jealousy and vanity, it is a venomous tact that they use when they lose their temper and rages war against another as seen in Japanese films. Among the manly and womanly roles in Japan, it is the role of the man that carries pride so adamantly.

By stressing that the body and sexuality are cultural concepts rather than natural occurrences, Foucault paves the way for a feminist analysis of essentialism.  He shows that rather than an intuitive, biological approach, sexuality is in a state of vibrant development that is neither programmed nor totally open to intended options. 

Sex refers to the perceived anatomical construction of an individual; there are only two known sexes the male and the female. When we say gender, it is actually how the culture we are in categorizes the difference between a man and a woman in social formation. In other words, gender depends on the form of norms the society suggests.

Emphasizing ordinariness highlights the similarities between the everyday lives of gay/lesbian and heterosexual families. This strategy suggests that gay/lesbian families are normal because they share the qualities associated with the day-to-day reality of family life, making gay/lesbian families more familiar and comprehensible.

The author states that HIV and the disease that it generated AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome had become a cause of concern after some 25 million people all over the world had died and an estimated 40 million  had carried the disease since the virus was first identified in 1981. In 2007, 33.2 million people had been infected with the virus.

It arose out of socialist, feminist, and other groups concerned with women's rights and sexual freedom. It was after 1920 that the birth control movement became gradually transformed into a respectable, non-radical reform cause, but with women's rights secondary only to the overriding concern with medical health and population control.

The author states that cultures, for the most part, differ vastly in what specifically defines the ideal and proper gender roles for men and women. It is clear that regardless of who will ultimately dominate the seed (which here is the child) the field is the mother and the father, being the tender of the field owns the wife.

The author states that Clifton’s poem, “This Morning,” and Plath’s poem, “Last Words,” both explore the complexities of the female American identity. While they both appear to be in agreement on the nature of the feminine identity, their American perspectives differ vastly.

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This paper explores the quote that elucidates a concept that could cause ‘man and wife’ to make peace in many situations. The irony is that men fail to understand the potential of women and therefore suffer accordingly. An analysis of the two plays would reveal that even if the above-referenced statement is not perfectly mirrored in them, it does at least cast a concurrent reflection.

The development of a mature capacity for relationship is a process parallel to, and equal to, the development of the capacity for a separate, autonomous identity. Following Kimmel (2000): “Gender is not simply a system of classification by which biological males and biological females are sorted, separated, and socialized into equivalent sex roles.

The early colonists were predominantly male and in order to find a place in Native American societies, they married women in these tribes. This is where they found serious conflict in prescribed European gender roles. The changes that European encountered helped shape gender roles that were different from original roles that Europeans that brought in.

The women in Spain are beaten up by their spouses and intense pain is inflicted on them more often than not. In countries like Brazil, this practice is very frequent and even the UN has been urged to come to the rescue of these poor women. There are many steps that are being taken in Spain and South America to bring this heinous practice to an end.

No single explanation can be found for the origins of gender discrimination, but throughout history they have been considered physically, morally, and intellectually inferior to men. Early Greek and Roman laws treated women as children, forever inferior to men, unable to take care of themselves without men’s control. The Christian tradition perpetuated Greek and Roman views on the natural inferiority of women.

In the book Adam, Eve, and the Serpent author Elaine Pagels makes the case that women have been placed in a second class status by the early church's portrayal of sex as sin. The radical positions of Paul have been perpetuated by the church and have resulted in celibacy being honorable and sexual drive a weakness.

As a matter of fact nobody will doubt the fact of active occurrence in life of society of the newest information technologies, as a result of rapid development of electronics. We may observe the formation and distribution of special type of mentality and view of life, conceptualized in a number of philosophical, sociological and cultural theories, which received wide popularity under the general name "postmodernism".

The paper attempts to throw light on the labor supply assimilation profiles of the two nations on a comparative basis and upholds a difference between the origins of the gender based disparity that apparently produce similar effects on the present economy.

The author provides an example, when advertisements for children both features male and female but boys tend to be the dominant ones. In these commercials, boys are portrayed to be more active and aggressive than girls. Advertisements geared for boys have active toys, varied scenes, rapid camera cuts, and loud music.

According to the paper, Human Sexuality and Disability, different social practices of modern sexuality time and again bear the marks of normative discursive notions that exist on the wide continuum from family and relatives relationship till popular culture, letter of the law, and specialized expert knowledge.

The author states that one of the major themes in this novel is the idea of a woman's role in society. Traditionally, Hispanic women are taught to serve three people: father, husband, and child. These roles can be restricted, particularly for modern women, and the author challenges this image of a woman in her novel.

The author states that Syphilis is a chronic, sexually transmitted disease, which starts in the mucous membranes then quickly develops into systemic and spreads in the bloodstream as well as nearby body’s lymph nodes. The spirochete Treponema pallidum (bacteria) is responsible for the said illness.

The topic selected for the present study is a detailed analysis of the reasons for the less representation of women in the business world of Europe. It is highly necessary to find out these reasons in order to develop strategies that could be employed so as to extract the potential of women also in the progress of these countries.

The author states that the situation is a lot more different when guys are concerned. A man who has a close friend while in a relationship is always confronted and accused of dishonorable things. He may even be charged for keeping that friend in time of “loneliness.” The double standard is but a bitter fact of life.

 In this research, some 18-year old adults are interviewed about whether it is proper for parents to discuss or ask any questions about sex from their teenage children. Four men and four women were chosen for this interview, and their responses to the packet questions are documented. The packets were 2 for sexually active males and 2 for females.

The author brings out that there is no major issue in having a baby in a manner that is not normal. In the case of the author, the father was genetically different, the mother while biologically provided the egg was not the gestated one. As the author says, she was surprised when the journalists asked her how she found it to have two mothers

The author states that if the differences in gender were to be overcome, the whole process of how people think would have to be changed. If this were possible, then down the years, the word “gender” would no even be in usage! It is now vital here that we try to look at how this misconception was shaped in the minds of people in the first place.