The Perfect Blend of Grit and Grace: An examination of cowgirls and their gender roles at the turn of the century
Thesis - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Every little girl at one time or another played cowgirl. Being a cowgirl is always much more fun than being a little lady, which is what all parents want of their daughters. Little ladies that wear white gloves to church, say their please and thank you's, and make sure...
Media's use of representation of genders and races leads to a distorted view of reality
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
A filmmaker's ultimate role is to properly present images in sequence that tell a story and/or conveys a message or several of them therefore. With various imagery tools, movies present a message in a way that makes them seem natural and fitting for the context that it is presented in. Whether...
Compare and contrast gendered verbal communication and gendered nonverbal communication
Essay - 7 pages - Social sciences
Communication, in its most rudimentary form, has been described as a process whereby a message is sent by one individual and received by another. While this process as described here is quite straightforward overall, the reality is that this process occurs in both a dynamic and mitigated...
Gender and sexual orientation's effect on lateralization and phonological language
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The subject of Gender influence on brain lateralization is a topic that has been explored in the scientific community. The consensus to this point is that gender does have an effect on lateralization and language. In proving this, it is important that the connection between...
Gender wage gap : Why is it that the median male wage earner earns 20% more than the median female worker?
Essay - 4 pages - Social sciences
The wage gap between men and women is a widely recognized concern in today's society. In this paper I will try to address the main reason for this difference. Why is it that the median male wage earner earns 20% more than the median female worker? While there are many suggestions out there for...
Gender Inversion and Spectator Identity in Silence of the Lambs
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Jonathan Demme's 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs centers on a young FBI trainee's attempts to catch a deranged serial killer before he kills again. Clarice Starling is a young woman determined to rise through the ranks of the male FBI. Already at a social disadvantage due to her sex, she...
A study into the history of Southern Labor Unions with an emphasis on race and gender
Essay - 7 pages - Social sciences
In David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, the reader is introduced to the author by an autobiographical introduction that paints the picture of a white adolescent growing up in the turbulent South. The author tells of his experiences with race in a small southern town near St. Louis where locals...
Gender differences in food foraging behaviour in mallard duck
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
The species Anas platyrhynchos, or the common Mallard duck, is a very well-documented organism, being found in virtually all parts of the world, with the exception of Antarctica. Like most other dabbling ducks belonging to the Anatinae family, the mallard duck is known to be noisy (or...
The Effect of Gender Roles on Relationships
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology
According to the Intimate Relationships, gender roles are patterns of behavior that are culturally expected of normal men and women. The most common and traditional gender roles imply that men are supposed to be masculine and women are supposed to...
Gender, sexuality and politics: masculinity
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Somehow we need to be able to acknowledge the power that men have in society without thereby feeding a myth that all men feel powerful in their individual lives we also have to recognize our inherited sense of superiority in relation to women (Seidler, 1997, p.51-53).
Scream: A Gendered Autobiography
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
One cannot discuss the concepts of gender without looking at the various frameworks in which it exists. In Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber states that gender is a process of social construction, a system of social stratification, and an institution that structures...
"Gender Bending Androgynous Sexuality in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Gender and sexuality are very difficult concepts to define in our post-modern age. To begin with, the term is outdated to fit the social norms of today: attraction lies anywhere and is not confined to heterosexual love' between a man and a woman. Gay, lesbian and bi-sexual are terms...
The Gender Gap: A Brief Overview of the Theoretical Perspectives On Gender-Related Cognitive Differences
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
In the fields of mathematics, engineering, and science a gender gap exists. Men still hold the vast majority of professional careers rooted in math and science in industrial countries. In the United States, for example, men account for more than three-quarters of all medical doctors,...
Football, Mead-Halls, and Bards: Perpetuated Gender Roles from Anglo-Saxon Literature
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In modern times, men and women in America are divided by their stereotypical gender roles. Women are inferior to men; they are interested in domestic issues and should make the men in their lives happy. Men are chauvinists; they enjoy nights with the guys and feel a stronger...
Women's Employment Opportunities in Key Creative Roles of Filmmaking in the UK and in France
Essay - 6 pages - Film studies
This business report compares the employment opportunities in the film industry for women in France and in the UK. France has more films produced and released than the UK, meaning more people are employed in the French film industry. Certain factors create obstacles for women in building their...
Discrimination against women
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Discrimination may be defined as the treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor or against a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit. (Landrine and Klonoff) It is not limited to...
Mega-Sport Events: Impact on Women Opportunities in Sponsorship and Their Brand Image
Dissertation - 34 pages - Sport marketing
"Sport has the power to change the world," declared Nelson Mandela in his famous speech at the first Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco in 2000. According to research done by A.T. Kearney, the global sports market is worth somewhere between $480 billion to $620 billion. Over and above the huge...
Jarhead - Sam Mendes (2005) - The place of men and women in society during the war
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
Jarhead is a trip movie and also a movie of war that tells the stories of the soldiers, it was filmed in the late 1970s, Sam Mendes directed the film based on the true story of Anthony Swofford's private life as a military man in the US marine, the movie takes us back to the Gulf War. The...
The Power in The tragedy of Macbeth, Vol. 2 - Shakespeare
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Gender roles have been a common theme in several renderings of literature. Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, provides an example. Shakespeare's take on gender is a unique one, revealed through the women in Macbeth. Women share a strong relationship with power in society according to the...
An analysis of "As Nature Made Him" by John Colapinto
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
There are many different ways to be uncomfortable in one's own skin. Each individual is never satisfied with their appearance, or some other aspect of their everyday lives, like their jobs. However, there are many cases where people are so unsatisfied in their own skin that they ask for a...
Blog Posts About Social Media and Women in Science
Creative writing - 2 pages - Everyday's life
This document contains two blog posts: one about social media and the other about women in Science. Excerpt: Hello everyone! I am writing this post to tell you I have made the decision to quit all social media as of today and for at least a month; for a start. To be honest, I don't think...
Business report: H** M** France - press agency, advertising
Internship report - 15 pages - Medias&communication marketing
The H** company in which I am doing my internship is a very complex company that deserves a lot of explanation in order to understand all the workings of the company. Indeed, the organization is international, the group is quoted on the "Stock Exchange" and has a very heavy weight in the...
The similarities and differences in the development of labour movements in different parts of Canada
Dissertation - 5 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The labour history of Canada can be traced back several years to 1812 when Halifax formed a union for the tailors. Just four years later, the formation of labour unions was deterred by the Nova Scotian Union which passed the Anti-union Act. Such has been the trend in the Canadian labour movement....
How to get over the differences and conflicts between cultures?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Culture is a specific set of attitudes and perception that direct the way a community lives. There are very many cultural groups and orientations in the world today. These groups are based on specific homogenous attitudes or values shared by a community. From the definition, the factors may...
Research on the nature of humor
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Different people find different situations amusing. Thus, this makes defining humor or wit tricky. Humor is the tendency of particular experiences that are cognitive in nature to bring about amusement and provoke laughter. It is universal, implying that humor affects every individual, regardless...
The feminization of love : all about love
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology
Love and relationships are some of the most controversial and heavily discussed topics in the contemporary society today with some people citing it as an emotional attachment while others see it as the actions that people do for others. There is however the romantic aspect of love as people who...
Comparison of Lisa Rofel's Liberation Cohort and the Cultural Revolution Cohort
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology
The viewpoints of the women, regarding their place in society, in the different cohorts identified by Lisa Rofel differ significantly. The first two cohorts, the Liberation and Cultural Revolution, show the development of women from debased states to a place of advocacy. Essentially their views...
Adult Crying
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Adult crying has always been a contentious issue among all adults. Is it right for an adult to cry? How will people take an adult who cries often? What are the reactions when you spot an adult crying? These are some of the questions that run through everyone's mind when the thought of adult...
Transphobia from transliberators
Thesis - 9 pages - Social sciences
After beginning a course devoted to sexual identities, and seeing the breakdown of each on the syllabus, I noticed one omission from the standard group of letters I'd been accustomed to seeing. There was the L' for lesbian, G' for gay, B' for bisexual, and even a Q' for...
Women representation in politics: A comparative approach between France and the Nordic countries
Dissertation - 32 pages - Political science
Nowadays women are increasingly accessing to high political positions in State office. Indeed, three women recently reached the status of Head of State in different countries: Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Ellen Johnson-Sirlead in Liberia, and Tarja Halonen in Finland. Moreover, women play more...