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or walking home, women, motivated by fear, must always be alert and aware of their surroundings. This is not because the subway, parking lot, bar, or the walk home are themselves dangerous, but the experience of being a woman in these areas is. Gendered space is inescapable. A space common to college campuses, a fraternity house, is especially masculine. Specifically, parties at night held at these houses are masculine spaces. Outside, the space is grand, built to mirror ancient Greek architecture

SNL and Gendered Politics “Here you have this serious presidential campaign, and all of us had to go on these comedy shows like Saturday Night Live, because that was the only way we could have more than a soundbite and reach a large audience, ” Ralph Nader said in an interview regarding his 2000 bid for president. A 2004 study done by Pew research found that 20% of Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 regularly get their news from late night television shows, like Saturday Night Live. With satirical

Is Ethics Gendered? Reanna C. Peterson Ashford University Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Robert Bass 8/22/17 Is ethics gendered? When

Fraternity parties are an every weekend occurrence here at UT, in my efforts to study gendered communication I decided to attend an event. Outside of my routine activities, in this situation I would take two roles; play participant and observer. The gendered communication styles are in full effect at fraternity parties, and the examples are clear as day. It was late on a humid Texas Friday night, myself and one hundred other people all huddled together in the house, sweat dripping, all packed tight

Gendered identity seemed to be well defined during the 1950s and this appeared to be reflected in fashion. These clearly defined roles and images however have not, historically, been consistent. At the beginning of the 20th century women’s style and fashion started to change intensely, this changing has helped women to fight for their independence of their style in fashion. Clothing moved to be more practical, a huge change from the narrowed and restricted frills and corsets of the 19th century

Gendered Lens on the Ripple Effect of Rape in War Women between the ages of 15 to 44 are at a greater risk of rape than cancer, malaria and a motor accident (Wood, 2009). According to Amnesty International (2014), 40 women are raped everyday in South Kivu regarding the on-going armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sexual violence during armed conflict has historically been known as one of the legitimate spoils of war (Brown, 2011). Spoils of war result from defeating a population

The gendered theme to my presentation was on gendered bodies in sports for both men and woman. I looked at how the image of an athlete is expressed to us through social networks and newspapers. They present us with the images of athletes and indirectly tells us how we’re supposed to look in becoming a good athlete. Starting from a young age these gendered bodies in sports influence our value we have for them and how we want to appear as we play the game. Women are constantly being bombarded with

engage in emotional labour meanwhile increase the employment opportunities for women (Nixon, 2009). However, women remains concentrated in low paid and low status occupations in the contemporary economy as opposed to men. The workplace culture is gendered due to the social expectation towards the occupations that reinforce existing stereotypes and cultural expectation about the gender in the workplace (Nixon, 2009; Kerfoot and Marek Korczynski, 2015; Hanser, 2012). Hochschild (1983) suggested that

multitudes of institutions that assist in the socialization of an individual vary from person to person, but are all beneficial in creating a sense of gender. According to Michael Messner, there are two types of institutions, the gendered and the gendering. The gendered institution is described by Messner as “an institution constructed by gender relations. As such, its structures and values (rules, formal organizations, sex composition, etc.) reflect dominant

is the idea that people base their knowledge off the presumptions of gender. This reaffirms the categorization of identifying someone as male or female. Thus, physiological differences between men and women are transformed into similar appearing gendered bodies. They state “we see what we believe, whether it is that ‘females’ and ‘males’ are essentially different or that ‘women’ and ‘men’ are essentially the same”’(Lorber 578). Through the conventional categorization of gender, one will see what