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Gendered Grave Goods, 2005.
Contrasts three Anglo-Saxon inhumations by examining gendered grave-goods in order to learn how this portrayal of the feminine gender through grave-goods sheds light on the culture of a woman and her community.
3,379 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 16 sources, MLA, AU$ 155.95
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The paper explores the portrayal of the feminine gender through grave-goods and the light these grave-goods shed on the culture of a woman and her community. The paper examines three contrasting inhumations, one Saxon, one Anglian and one Kentish, in order to compare and contrast these different cultures and communities. The paper discusses the revelations of contrasting styles of dress, varying roles played by women, such as weavers, wives and mothers and the status afforded to the Anglo-Saxon woman through the fulfilment of these roles.
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"In order to consider what is meant here by 'gendered grave-goods', it is first important to consider what is referred to by 'gender'. The term 'gender' is usually differentiated from the term 'sex' in that 'sex relates specifically to the biological, physical characteristics which make a person male or female at birth, whereas gender refers to the behaviours associated with members of that sex.' Sex, then, is defined biologically, and gender, culturally. Crawford says of the grave-goods associated with the pagan Anglo-Saxon inhumation ritual, that '[t]he clearest message conveyed [...] was the sex of the deceased', the sharp contrast between the '[w]eapons, including spears, shields and swords' almost exclusively found in male burials and the jewellery that is associated with female burials serving to highlight the very different types of goods used to symbolise the male and female sexes. Stoodley emphasises the contrast between masculine and feminine symbolism further still in his comment that the jewellery of the female inhumation ritual is not only an indication of the female sex, but is also involved in 'the creation of a feminine gender'."
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Gendered Technologies and Gendered Jobs, 2002.
A comparison between women studying and working with computer technology and the sciences in North America and women studying science and technology in Asia.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 186.95
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Explores how the gendered development of technology in a research setting impacts the gendered use of technology in the industrial or commercial setting, as well as the cultural barriers to women's advancement in the high-tech economy.
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Grave's Disease: A Grave Disorder., 2002.
This paper is a presentation about Grave's Disease.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 143.95
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Its symptoms, its causes, the way it affects different cells and the treatment are all outlined. Hyperactive thyroid causes many symptoms that are often overlooked by patients as well as their doctors. We discount them as they gradually creep up upon us and we tell ourselves there are other causes for the things that are happening. Once we have been diagnosed we then begin a treatment plan that can vary in intensity as well as options. The author takes the reader on a detailed exploration of the disease, the research and the treatment of Grave's disease.
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Cross-Cultural Gender and Gender Relations in Horticultural Societies, 2002.
This paper examines the gender roles in horticultural societies.
1,990 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 102.95
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This paper shows the difference that agriculturists, sedentary lifestyles, and social differentiation made in gender relationships.
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"The first evidence of agriculturists, sedentary lifestyles, and social differentiation that archaeologists and anthropologists have distinguished come from groups termed Horticulturists. Though the past record remains relatively scant in regards, anthropologists have used existing ones as a locus of study and interpretation. More numerous than surviving hunter-gatherer groups, horticultural societies also show an incredible range of gender diversity between groups, more numerous, in fact, than any other extent societal model. The quantity of studies that has come as a result of this are astounding. Those done in the area of New Guinea alone, home to at least two hundred different horticultural societies, provide ample evidence to add weight to the debate of nurture over nature, by sheer examples of the differences in living and understanding gender roles in such a relatively small and homogenous environmental area. "
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Gender Issues and Third Gender Problems, 2002.
A look at how transsexuals fit into society.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 85.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper discusses gender from anthropological perspective and finds out how transsexuals are treated in different societies of the world. While males and female may fight each other over who is stronger, they are the fortunate ones for they belong to two accepted genders but for transsexuals adjusting to the norms of restrictive societies may not be easy as they are not considered a part of the social fabric in many cultures of the world.
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Gendered Criminology Theory, 2008.
An examination of the theories of crime and gender put forward in the article, "Gender and Crime: Toward a Gendered
Theory of Female Offending," written by Emilie Steffensmeier.
1,151 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper examines gendered criminology theory. It specifically analyzes the article, "Gender and Crime: Toward a Gendered
Theory of Female Offending," written by Emilie Steffensmeier. The paper discusses the content of the article and looks at the author's views and arguments related to theories of crime that take into account female and gender difference.
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"Possibly the most significant of the key components is the focus on contextually. This aspect has been largely ignored by other theoretical approaches. The study is also significant in the incorporation into its theoretical framework of gender roles and stereotypes in the explanation of crime. For example, the significance and utility of the gendered perspective as advocated by this theory can be seen it its ability to explain why the reportage of female crime is highest in the category of minor offences, such as shoplifting ands passing bad checks. This aspect is seen against the tendency for women to focus on relationship aspects and protection of their families, whereas these crimes in a male context are largely the result of status protection. It is felt that this gendered theory holds a great degree of promise for future exploratory understanding of this complex issue"
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"Gendered Lives", 2004.
A summary and analysis of Julia T. Wood's book "Gendered Lives."
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 89.95
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This paper offers a summary and an analysis of Julia T. Wood's book "Gendered Lives." The summary provides an analysis of each half of the book, including important concepts and theories illustrated by the author.
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"In the first six chapters of Julia Wood's "Gendered Lives" the author illustrates the main concepts that form the foundation of the book. Definitions of gender, culture and communication. Wood maintains that reading this book will enlarge your awareness of gender - how it is shaped and expressed in contexts ranging from the political arena to intimate relationships. Through social institutions like the judicial system and the media, Wood argues that cultural marginalization occurs for some groups like women, homosexuals and minorities."
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Gendered Cultural Identity, 2007.
This paper is a personal narration of a female student living in Canada, which explores the author's gendered cultural identify and relates it to anthropological and sociological theory.
2,640 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 128.95
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This paper expresses the belief that a gendered, cultural identity narration plays a useful role in finding or defining one's own identity with the caveat that identity is constantly evolving and being dynamically recreated. The author uses the falsity of the assumption that "all Canadians are peaceable" as an example of a ludicrous theory that a particular trait can represent the culture of an entire nation of people. The paper discuses the author's different experiences of being a woman and notes that economic discrimination against women in Canada is far more subtle than in Third World countries because women have the protection of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The paper relates that, growing up in a Third World country as a white, where she was assumed to be 'Westernized', resulted in experiences unlike Black and Chicana feminists. The paper includes quotations.
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"As I have had the experience of being both a Third-World feminist and a First-World feminist, am I now a Third-World feminist or a First-World feminist? Narayan states that she chooses to call herself a Third-World feminist because many of her formative experiences took place in this context. This seems to me to be a valid point of view. While I cannot reduce my identity to simply "Third-World feminist," I can certainly see that many of my experiences growing up moulding me into a feminist - and perhaps more of a committed feminist than I might otherwise have been, ..."
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'The Gendered Frontiers of Globalization', 2006.
A review and analysis of J. Ann Tickner's article, "The Gendered Frontiers of Globalization".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 57.95
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This paper discusses J. Ann Tickner's article, "The Gendered Frontiers of Globalization", explaining that it shows that women have been severely disadvantaged by globalization. However, it also does far more than this; in a carefully balanced and nuanced text, Tickner analyses both the pros and cons of globalization for women.
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"Therefore, the result is an article that gains credibility for its dispassionate analysis. It cannot be rejected outright as merely another neoliberal apologia for globalisation, nor as yet another vitriolic (and thus presumably biased) attack on globalisation. This dispassionate..."
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Gendered Language and On-Line Power Relations, 2000.
An analysis of gender from a linguistic perspective as it is affected by electronic technology in the modern university classroom setting.
2,802 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 134.95
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On-Line discourse today consists in large part of adult users who are essentially "mapping' power relations in terms of gendered language use as they are understood in off-line contemporary society onto computer mediated forums. This paper examines the relationship between gender and language in the medium of the online classroom discussion forum. It also looks at possible contrasts with gender identities in future generations of Internet users.
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"The students using the online class forum are in a peculiar position, in that they are the last part of the only group in technological history for whom the Internet will be an indispensable tool in terms of future occupations, but for whom the Internet was not an educational tool learned and familiarized in childhood (learned simultaneously with the acquisition of written language). That computer and Internet use including online messaging is now used by and marketed to very young children, future generations of online users will grow up with a different understanding of identity in online culture. As children use the Internet as an educational and social forum, they will have a greater innate recognition of the power relations inherent in language use, and ways in which to manipulate these linguistic power relations in order to steer online communication."
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A Gendered Career - Women and Technology, 2008.
A look at the argument that modern technology has had an effect on gender roles.
2,602 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 126.95
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This paper argues that the appropriation of new technologies has had a great impact on the changing face of the female gender role. The paper uses the arguments presented by Ruth Schwartz Cowan in her article, "More Work For Mother" as a starting point to discuss domestic technologies from the early twentieth century to those of today. The paper also refers to an article and book written by Christine Frederick (1883-1970), one of the earliest women to merge the public sphere of business and the private sphere of the home as well as other scholarly articles dealing with the domestic sphere. The paper concludes that the literature demonstrates that, in the beginning bearing children was practically the main occupation of women, but as time progressed and medical advancements were made, this duty, instead of being an addition to a woman's resume, remains a headliner. Living in the 21st century most Americans no longer fully support the idea that we should divide labor by gender but the belief that women, not men, are primarily responsible for the care of the home is still not uncommon.
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"In today's society being a homemaker has in many ways returned to what it originally was. Housewives of the 21st century are often of the middle to upper-middle class, enjoying nannies and maids. Those who aren't in this economic division but are sill homemakers also may rely on much of what Christine Frederick so strongly preached about, scientific home management. With busy schedules and constant activities housewives of today have a lot on their "to-do" lists. What I am finding as I begin to enter the career world is that there is a great divide between women who choose to stay at home and women who choose to pursue careers. It has now become a statement of self worth as if women who remain in domestic arenas have let down the grand progressive movements of feminist. "
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The Gendered Geography of Fear, 2005.
How gender identities are determined by the fear of public urban spaces.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 100.95
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The subject of the paper is gender and geography. The paper argues that gender identities are determined by the fear of public urban spaces. In order to maintain the patriarchy women are convinced that there is something to be afraid of. Men on the other hand build identities as aggressors or protectors. The paper examines how it is not just the physical environment that determines spaces within cities, but also social, political, ideological, economic and cultural factors.
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"Spaces within cities are not just determined by the physical environment. Social, political, ideological, economic and cultural factors are just as important. This is what Tracey Skillington is saying in The City as Text when she uses the term "the city as text". Skillington argues, It was by way of a complex system of symbolic interaction that meaning was socially constructed and politically mobilized, that certain cultural codes of interpretation were mediated through the symbolic features of discourse on the city to justify the system of cultural and political authority as it is (Skillington, 1998:458)."
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Gendered Space and Transgendered Negotiations, 2006.
A look at the negotiation of gender roles in a public washroom in Toronto's gay community.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 85.95
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In this essay the author employs an understanding of social order and social organization that draws heavily upon the concept of meaning as being socially constructed. In particular this essay explores the negotiation of gender roles in an alternative public space. The essay draws upon the author's discussions of the subject matter with a gay male acquaintance and his critique of the heterosexism that fosters institutional reflexivity.
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Gendered Experience in the Workplace, 2006.
A personal account of gender discrimination in the workplace.
1,632 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 86.95
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This paper recounts the personal experience of a male employee of one of the El Pollo Loco fast food chain stores The author explains that he was chosen to be promoted to assistant manager at the store he worked at over his friend and female co-worker who was equally qualified for the position. The author also discusses the insight he gained from the experience concerning the ways women are discriminated against in the workplace.
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"Sexual discrimination is a reality in the workforce. Despite many recent and well- publicized advances of individual women in business, and some prominent examples of female leadership of once male-dominated corporate entities, in the everyday experience of most workers, common workplace relations remain 'gendered' in terms of leadership. Gender constructs that favor promoting males to positions of leadership still affect the perceptions of managers, and their employees. I know this from my own personal experience, even though I am male."
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Gendered Institutions and the Political Science Curriculum, 2002.
An argument for the inclusion of feminist theory in a political science curriculum.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 42.95
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This paper argues for the inclusion of feminist theory in a political science curriculum by expanding on the way gender structures political and social institutions. Certain concepts that are foundational to political science are described, and then elaborated with feminist perspectives of gender. Ultimately, issues of equality are contingent upon an understanding of more complex relations of critical analysis and traditional assumptions in political science.
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Problematics and Solutions of a Gendered Masculinity, 2001.
This paper examines the problems of masculinity in society and how to reform.
1,210 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, AU$ 67.95
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This paper looks at the problems that arise from a male's sense of extreme masculinity. The author discusses how society influences male behavior, and how people need to become aware of gendered masculinity, and educate adolescents about the roles of the sexes.
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"Without this understanding of the gendered male, it becomes nearly impossible for a person to value change as a worthwhile endeavor. Masculinity, as a historical and social construct, is only subject to substantial change through intentional means. These means can only come about through a certain level of consciousness. An awareness of a gendered ?masculinity? and the problematics associated with its obtainment, as well as the desire to change it are all necessary agents in the process of social change. ?As men become gender aware, they can use their considerable social power to work in the opposite direction, toward positive social change.?
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