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struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.” Ward mentions how much society emphasizes gender to create this social construction of gender, which restricts personal freedoms. Many articles have been written about the social norms of gender, and the differences between men and women. Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” (1978) illustrates a conversation with a woman and a young girl about how

Misogyny and Homophobia as a Result of Patriarchy Beginning in the 1900s, the United States took the steps needed in an attempt to diminish gender inequality, yet the problem still persists. Since the beginning of time, men have been the controllers of society setting rules and deciding people’s lives. Such power comes from patriarchy, which began thousands of years ago with the concept of fatherhood and the virtues of man. This notion of man having the virtue to rule better than women serves as

Women who tend to venture towards the masculine side of the scale tend to be ridiculed and classified as a tomboy. In the play Antigone, the protagonist, the title character, acts out of her feminine role in society resulting in her own death. To demonstrate her loyalty to her disimular family she disobeys Creon, the king. Angry a woman would ever cross him, Creon reacts violently in fear that if a women were able to disobey his rules, men could do so easier. Women were not seen as equals when compared

women are socialized to meet the needs and desires of men while caring for the family. Over time, our society has created sexual scripts, roles and stereotypes to which each gender must adhere. Women who have an active interest in sex in our culture, are often derisively labelled as sluts, a term which stands in sharp contrast to the less derogatory term used for men, who are known as studs. This is a good indication as to how society treats people who fail to remain within sexual conventions; that they

What I got most from both the readings and the video, women sexuality is used to shame them and a lot of misconceptions about sex. When I was listening to the pro-abstinence speakers, I thought they were slut shaming females for liking sex, while not doing the same for males. Moreover, I felt like they were trying to say a woman with a lot of partners, her vagina becomes loose and non-pleasurable. Thus, a boys should not want female with loose vagina. From the readings, I get better understanding

Beauvoir in Second Sex) The idea of feminism and women’s rights have been under attack for years. Women themselves have been under attack for their entire lives. Women always have to be doing things correctly or men attack their very being. Men have expected women to be submissive to them from the beginning of time, as life has always been a patriarchy. Feminism has always been buried under the dirt but in the last 50-100 years, it has been exhumed from the grave. In this time women have been fighting

Sherry Baker’s article “The Home Team Advantage...and Other Sex Hormone Secrets” aims to summarize the research on what different amounts of the sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen, actually do to us. Baker looks at behaviors in low-testosterone and high-testosterone males, how prenatal exposure to testosterone influences spatial reasoning, and memory capabilities in relation to estrogen levels. Robert Josephs was the first researcher cited by Sherry Baker in regards to the effects of different

intelligent, and carefree divorcée that the men in the circle constantly lust for. Her appeal to the men causes a great deal of sexual jealousy. The concept of sex is a devastating force that damages the group. Sex is able to destroy relationships, people internally, and the purpose of life for the characters. There are many relationships in The Sun Also Rises, each one having similar qualities to the others. Most of the relationships revolve around Lady Brett Ashley, who is very outspoken about her love life

In South Africa, AIDS is one of the top causes of death. South Africa has the biggest AIDS/HIV epidemic in the world because of violence against women, poverty, and lack of education. Given this, “Africans account for nearly 70% of those who live with HIV and are dying of AIDS” (Morgenstern, Dr. Michael). For centuries, “AIDS has been spread through sexual contact and direct contact with bodily fluids such as blood, semean, and breast milk” (Disease background). Also, is spread through perinatal

Sex is vulnerable, lustful, addictive,taboo, and at the end of the day what most mammals desire, crave and exist for. Yet often times humans make it a commodity, that can be traded for attention, money and POWER. This essay will discuss the conflicting ways in which sex can be used by men and women in terms of power using the short story Going to meet The Man by James Baldwin, the main character Jesse rapes black women to fulfil his sadistic desires of “power” where as women in most cases have used