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Papers On Gender & Society
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Women’s Education and Employment in Britain, 1850-1980
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This 11 page report discusses the history of women’s education and employment in Great Britain from 1850 to 1980. Of special note in the paper are the reasons attitudes regarding married women working outside the home changed from 1914 to 1980. Not surprisingly, key factors such as war, economic necessity, social class, and the advent of the Industrial Age all influenced virtually all of those changes. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: BWwoemp.rtf
Paper Title: Women’s Education and Employment in Britain, 1850-1980
Gender Bias
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A 6 page paper that discusses gender bias against women in a male-dominated culture. Stereotypical behaviors are learned early in life and are perpetuated throughout life in media depictions of women. The comments of three feminist authors are integrated: Sandra Lee Bartky, Sandra Lipsitz Bem, and Catharine A. MacKinnon. The writer also addresses the need for women to take responsibility to change their own environment. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PGwomn.rtf
Paper Title: Gender Bias
Gender Biased Language
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6 pages in length. This paper reviews three articles on the title subject and analyzes each article. There are people who use language that would be considered biased in use. The question that is raised is this: Is the language a cause of the bias or is the bias a cause of the language used? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAlingu.wps
Paper Title: Gender Biased Language
The 'Smurfette Principle' & Today's Gender-Biased Media
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Nearly three decades after the 'Feminist Movement' and the initiation of the Equal Rights Amendment, much of the entertainment media is still reflecting lower-level roles, even subordinate roles for women. This 4 page essay explores 'The Smurfette Principle' in terms of various preschool television shows. The similarity of today's storylines to those of 25 and more years ago is astounding. . . a rather incredible fact in light of the feminist movement. Gender bias is alive and well in entertainment media. No bibliography.
Filename: Smurfett.wps
Paper Title: The 'Smurfette Principle' & Today's Gender-Biased Media
Critique of Western Feminist Representation
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A 7 page paper that discusses the argument between feminists on the issue of 'third world' representation of women. The paper focuses upon theories presented by Abu-Lughod, Mahanty, Russo and Torres, and also looks at Bell Hooks' theory that feminists must interact with the women they study in order to get a true understanding of the applicability of theory. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Femcrit.wps
Paper Title: Critique of Western Feminist Representation
The Struggle To Reshape Thinking About Gender
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A 7 page paper that discusses the need to act on feminist theory, and posits that feminist anthropologists move out of the ivory tower and into action. The writer includes discussion around views of feminist anthropological theory postulated by writers such as Naomi Wolf, Marilyn Strathern, Pat Caplan, and bell hooks. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Femgen.wps
Paper Title: The Struggle To Reshape Thinking About Gender
Bell’s “Daughters of the Dreaming” / Gender Parity
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A 5 page paper on this controversial book by American anthropologist Diane Bell. The paper argues that Bell
evocatively renders the importance of ritual and myth in the lives of aboriginal women, but overstresses the importance of their achieving social parity with tribal men.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Gendpar.wps
Paper Title: Bell’s “Daughters of the Dreaming” / Gender Parity
Gender & The New Age of Technology
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A 5 page paper discussing gender in a computer world. The world has come quite a distance in the past century in relationship to technology as well as to gender issues but both are destined to continue to change. The advances which are prevalent in the world of communications and computers should likely be used as an incentive to overcome prejudices attached to gender differences. Differences which are unavoidable. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Gendtech.wps
Paper Title: Gender & The New Age of Technology
Gender Gap
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Female Students Are Not Getting the Academic Assistance that Male Students Get: In 5 pages the author discusses the issue of female students not getting the academic assistance that male students get. "The gender gap is alive and well at the end of the 20th century. Female students are not getting the assistance that male students are getting. Male students are now, and have always been given the most attention in the academic setting. Academic programs are set up to favor the male gender. Education
should be non-gender biased." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Gendgap.wps
Paper Title: Gender Gap
Gender Roles in Society
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This 5 page paper explores several sociological theories in
terms of how society has been ordered to render the male the dominant sex. Feminist ideology is explored as well. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Gndrole.wps
Paper Title: Gender Roles in Society
"Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal Of Slenderness In American Culture": Overview
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4 pages in length. Modern diets of teenage girls reflect the significant pressures placed upon impressionable adolescents. Whether the influence is that of popular culture, athletics or peer pressure, young girls are faced with conflicting information when it comes to how society perceives attractiveness. Joan Jacobs Brumberg's article entitled "Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture" delves deeply into the reasons why American popular culture has such a stranglehold upon the way in which girls view themselves and the drastic actions they take in order to portray the image of slenderness. Much of the issues with body image and self-esteem manifest themselves in eating disorders, a particularly pertinent concern with impressionable adolescents. Eating disorders, such as bingeing, purging and fasting, are as much a part of adolescent life as Friday night pizza parties and football games. Adolescent females, in particular, are significantly more susceptible because they are keenly aware of their physical appearance, which is oftentimes distorted by an unbalanced self-esteem. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCFstng.rtf
Paper Title: "Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal Of Slenderness In American Culture": Overview