Female

The keyword Female is tagged in the following 9 articles.

The Media's Sexualization of Female Athletes: A Bad Call for the Modern Game

October 24, 2011 - 4371 words | Women's Studies » Women's Studies

Since the early 20th century, the feminist movement has made enormous strides to improve the status of Female athletes. Prior to the movement’s achievements, Female athletes had to play in much poorer facilities, under different rules, and with stricter dress... Read Article »

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Women's Studies Feminism Women's Rights Female Athletes Media Sexualization Sports

Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" and the Roles of Men and Women

December 16, 2010 - 1922 words | English » Giovanni Boccaccio

In the society that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is set in, women generally are held in a lower social standing than men. As with most societies until relatively recently in history, women were not allowed to have a significant role in society, other than... Read Article »

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Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Men And Women Female Figures in Literature

Female Cyberbullying: Causes and Prevention Strategies

November 12, 2010 - 1960 words | Education » Bullying

In recent months, the epidemic of bullying in the United States has received widespread attention in the news media. Though bullying can be defined in many ways, researchers lean toward a definition that includes “aggression, intention, repetition and an imbalance... Read Article »

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Female Cyberbullying Cyberbullying Bullying

Obese, Female, & Nude: Epistemological Satire or Sociological Critique?

November 3, 2010 - 1601 words | Sociology » Women's Studies

Historically, Female models in photographic art have depicted an ideological construction of the Female body which women, regardless of stature, ethnicity or class, must conform to. John Berger (1972, p. 46) notes that ‘to be born a woman has been to be born&... Read Article »

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Leonard Nimoy Photography Female Models Contemporary Women Women's Studies

Female Writers in the 18th Century: The Power of Imagination

October 15, 2010 - 3923 words | English » Female Writers

Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the Female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition, and as an outlet for temporarily escaping a harsh world. In Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft focused mostly on... Read Article »

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Imagination Eighteenth Century Female Writers 18th Century Frankenstein Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Anna Letitia Barbauld

Comparing Female Characters in "Christabel" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"

February 5, 2010 - 2225 words | Literary Criticism » Female Characters

Despite both being the leading Female characters in their respective pieces, Christabel from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel and Madeline from John Keats’ The Eve of St. Agnes have many striking similarities. Throughout both poems, the two women are... Read Article »

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Coleridge Keats Christabel The Eve Of St. Agnes Gender Roles in Literature Female Character

Women as the Submissive Sex in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

January 26, 2010 - 864 words | Literary Criticism » Women in Literature

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function. Female characters like Safie, Elizabeth, Justine, Margaret and Agatha provide nothing more but a channel of action for the male characters... Read Article »

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Passive Female Characters Women in Literature Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Submissive Females in Literature Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Examining Oppression Through the Lives and Stories of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

January 5, 2010 - 5131 words | English » Female Oppression

Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of becoming a famous writer while most of... Read Article »

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Sylvia Plath Charlotte Perkings Gilman Female Oppression Women's Right The Bell Jar The Yellow Wallpaper

Female Norms and the Patriarchal Power Structure in Shakespeare's Hamlet

November 17, 2009 - 956 words | English » Shakespeare

Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the mores and norms of the society they live in. It is through this process that the established social order is perpetuated. When individuals fail to accept the beliefs of society as their own, there is... Read Article »

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Shakespeare Hamlet Traditional Female Roles Patriarchy Female Norms Power Structure