...Since the beginning of time, gender roles have been a topic brought up in arguments. Women in Of Mice and Men are treated like property. This shows how much women were disrespected and misunderstood. The roles of what women are expected to do in their jobs and in society were not the same as men. Everything from how they were treated in the workplace to how they were expected to act and look was just completely different. A woman’s life seemed to be just more difficult than a man's life. A woman's life and a man’s life in the 1930’s was very stereotypical and very different. Around this time, women were expected to play the role of being a housewife. Woman had goals and dreams, but they couldn't be accomplished because they had to stay home. The evolution of gender roles over the past century have changed enormously. Around the 1930’s/1940 or the Great Depression, when Of Mice and Men takes place women's rights were very slim.Women had very different behavioral expectancies than their men counterparts. While most men went to work, the women stayed home which was not much different than before. However, women often felt as though their role in the home had been enhanced, and it typically did not negatively affect their feelings . Men had to work really hard for money, because women were expected to stay at home and play the roles of housewives. “Nother time I met a guy an’he was in pitchers . . . he said he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got...
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...Case Analysis Sun Medical Systems, INC Table of Contents Summary 2 1. Situation Analysis 2 2. Problem Analysis 3 3. Decision Analysis 5 A. Maintain Status-quo 6 B. Move to a different department or organization 6 C. Verify her stories and then decide the next course of action 6 Plan of Action 7 A. Prepare for the crucial Conversation 7 Summary The objective of the case analysis to apply the SA-PA-DA-PA (Situation Analysis, Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis and Plan of Action) framework to find out the right course of action for Shabana Jabeen of Sun Medical systems. Shabana feels frustrated and stagnated at her job in spite of her division doing exceptionally well and her contributions to the growth of the division are widely acknowledged by the Management. The case analysis has been structured in 4 sections as per the SA-PA-DA-PA methodology. Situation Analysis Situation analysis is defined as a process that examines a situation, its elements, and their relations, and that is intended to provide and maintain a state of situation awareness for the decision maker. A situation analysis defines and interprets the state of the environment of a person or organization and provides the context and knowledge for planning. Examining Shabana’s situation we come across the following facts – I. Shabana has been a top student and an exceptional...
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...husband tries to accommodate her, the policeman does not arrest or fine her for the accident, and the workers at the fishmarket put product on hold for her. In the end, it is Mrs. Sen’s responsibility to make an effort. Unlike Mala in The Third and Final Continent – who was equally distraught about leaving her family – Mrs. Sen does not try to adjust. She is trapped in a cage of her own making. As in Sexy, the main characters have mirror images within the story. Here, Eliot and Mrs. Sen are quite similar. He is trapped in his life as well. The loneliness and distress that Mrs. Sen expresses are familiar emotions. He has front row seats for his mother’s sadness. Unlike Mrs. Sen, Eliot is unable to tell anyone about his plight because, again unlike Mrs. Sen, he is truly powerless. The sympathy one has for Eliot reflects harshly on Mrs. Sen as one realizes that she could try. The symmetry is evoked in anecdotes, like the parties that Mrs. Sen and Eliot experience. Mrs. Sen’s lively party in Calcutta is contrasted with Eliot’s story as Eliot is only a witness and not a participant. Lack of communication is employed once again in Mrs. Sen’s to create a sense of tragedy. Though it is unclear how much...
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...“I am a man” (59). Although this statement is only four words long, it carries the weight of a thousand words. This quote that Kino, the main character, directed towards his wife Juana shows the gender inequality this story faced. Saying something as simple as “I am a man” seems to not be a big deal. Stating your gender is not a crime, but the meaning is much more significant. This a statement of power, entitlement, and privilege. These characteristics are given to men through the culture they are a part of and community they live in. Although based off The Pearl, gender inequality has been a problem throughout time and continues to be today. It is important to understand the difference that gender makes to understand the story being told,...
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...place in a dystopian future, The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a totalitarian government under which women are harshly subjugated. Instead of accepting her current position as a handmaid. Offred longs to return to her previous life; however, in the Republic of Gilead, gender-based oppression is commonplace and often prevents Offred from achieving both her short and long-term aspirations. Similar to the painting Fair Rosamund by Arthur Hughes, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale examines how sexual oppression leads to the loss of identity, shaming of...
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...“Most people in Western cultures grow up learning that there are two and only two sexes, male and female, and two and only two genders, feminine and masculine” (Spade and Valentine – 3). For most cultures all around the world, this is their case. People have grown up learning strictly about these distinctions; people are labeled as male or female according to the sexual organs they were born with and must identify as feminine or masculine with their looks, without there being an in between or even a slight glimpse of a change occurring in society. It could be that they choose to turn their backs on these issues because of their culture, religions, and/ or personal beliefs or people are just not well informed of what these titles carry. For someone that does not struggle to conform with society’s ‘acceptable way’ of gender it is no issue to fit in when it comes to that part of their lives. However, to a transgendered person, for example, fitting into a certain gender/ sex is an everyday struggle. Sex and gender have become the main distinction all over the world; it would be very hard to get rid of this. Personally, I do not believe that there will ever come a day where the existing gender binary completely disappears but I do believe that changes may be done to it over time. In an issue like gender binary, nurture ironically beats nature. People are not born hating homosexuals, transgender people, bisexuals, etc., that sort of hatred is acquired throughout the years and growing...
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...Rhetorical Strategies in Butler’s “phylosophe” and Brook’s “Honor Code” Judith Butler and David Brooks both use the similar method of telling a story at the beginning to convince their audience that what they are saying is true. Judith Butler, a philosopher, in a youtube interview, “phylosophe” (2007), argues that society has a severely deep fear relating to gender norms. Meanwhile, David Brooks, a columnist, in “Honor Code” (2012), from The New York Times claims that the education system is to blame for the increase of males failing each year, not the males themselves. While Butler tells an anecdote, Brooks uses an allusion which both are stories that get the audience involved, appeals to pathos and logos, which is when the author tries to affect the audience’s personal feelings and tries to persuade the listener through deductive reasoning, and uses tone, the attitude of the speaker and the effects it has on the audience. Butler begins by...
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...immunity to love between goddess and mortal. Of course, this fall of Aphrodite does not go unnoticed by mythological interpretation, and there is a lot to explore. The story of Aphrodite may fall under many stereotypical interpretations, such as structuralism, social charter, and gender analysis, but she sometimes challenges them just as well. A look at structuralism using motifemes has a curious twist when it comes to the goddess of love. The main example of a motifeme pattern is as follows: the girl leaves home, the girl is secluded, the girl becomes pregnant by a god, she suffers, and finally she is rescued and gives birth to a son. After reading about Aphrodite and Anchises, this pattern is almost familiar, except for one very interesting turn of events— the gender roles are switched. This is where Aphrodite challenges the interpretations of myth just a little. When Aphrodite finds Anchises, he is secluded at home. When he realizes that it was in fact a goddess who he impregnated, he suffered in his panic. Aphrodite calmed his worries, rescuing him, and gives him a son, Aeneas. In this way, her story has followed many other popular ones with similar patterns, only in her own way. Vladimir Propp argues that the presence of these motifemes makes it easier to organize and therefore appreciate the story. When we as readers can find similarities to...
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...Reader Response for story “Boys and Girls” I was inspired after reading the story “Boys and Girls”, although I am a male, but I still can feel the emotion of the character in the story, because the story “Boys and Girls” happened in 1960-1970s, however, the gender discrimination is more serious at that time in China. I was born in big city in China, and I am only child in the family. Even I am a boy; I already realized the gender difference and discrimination. I think in China lots of women have similar story just like the girl in the “Boys and Girls”. China is a traditional country; when I was a little boy, children are usually raised by the elders in the family before they go to primary school, because parents are very busy, they need to work every day. I was raised by my grandparents too, I am only child in the family so I cannot feel gender discrimination in that time, until I got on the primary school, my best friend in class is came from countryside, his situation and living environment is very different with me. He was raised with his older sister in his grandparent’s house; he could feel his grandparents treat he better than his sister. They grandparents usually offer he the better food and clothes than his older sister. When he made mistakes they would not blame he much but not his sister. And his older sister’s mother dislikes him and his mother, he was confused, till his mother told his, his aunt is jealous because...
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...George Chauncey’s “Why Marriage, ” and Riki Wilchins’s, "Time for Gender Rights"” the texts explores the struggles for equal LGBQT rights, and teaches us a lesson about a philosophical concept built on ideals of freedom, equality, and human dignity on LGBQT community. These articles show statics of how throughout our history, there has been a long history of denying basic rights to certain people, but by coming out it is even necessary for atheists and humanists. However, by coming out, it transforms the transgender society. Most LGBT community experiences anti-LGBT language and harassment related to their sexual orientation and gender expression, and they often feel unsafe. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people...
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...Overview There are several types of factual moving image productions. One of these is a news broadcast. A news broadcast is a programme in which informs the audience on the current events happening around the world today. Examples of a news broadcast would be: BBC news at six, Good Morning Britain and ITV News. The general objective of a news broadcast is to educate and give information to the viewers. The audience profiling for a news show, ‘News at Ten’ for example, would be: working class, due to it being on so late in the evening (A person who works would not have enough time to watch news broadcast in the afternoon). However, a news show broadcasted in the early morning could be targeted at students due to their early schedules. The gender profile for a news broadcast wouldn’t be any in particular. Overall, the audience profile for a news broadcast varies, there is no one designed audience… it is for anyone and everyone in general. Millions of people tune into a fly-on-the-wall show every single week. A fly-on-the-wall programme is something in which the public can watch to keep up with someone’s (normally celebrities) life. Examples of this...
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...The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex by Marte Rognstad A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the MA Degree Spring Term 2012 Marte Rognstad The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex Marte Rognstad http://www.duo.uio.no Trykk: Reprosentralen, Universitetet i Oslo Abstract This thesis presents an exploration of the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex mainly in light of the theories of Judith Butler. The focus will be on how the two novels challenge the traditional concept of gender and gender categories, and in what ways the novels can give us new perspectives on the concept of gender. The theoretical focus will be on Judith Butler, more precisely her idea of gender as performance, and her deconstructionist approach to identity categories. I will present Butler’s proposal for a “new feminist genealogy,” and through my investigation of the representation of gender in Orlando and Middlesex I will show how both novels take on a “Butlerian” understanding of the concept of gender. By looking at various issues related to gender explored in the two novels, and pointing to similarities and differences between the two works, I hope to show how the protagonists, Orlando and Cal/lie, break down and transcend the fraught...
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...CEDAW in Kyrgyzstan: a movement towards justice On 18 December, 2009, the world will celebrate 30 - year anniversary of the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). To mark Convention’s 30th birthday, Kyrgyz women’s organizations launched a nation – wide collection of stories, testimonies and reflections about changes which CEDAW brought into lives of Kyrgyz women. The six selected stories, written by the NGOs and women selves were included into this brochure. UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides fi nancial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. UNIFEM focuses its activities on the over-arching goal of supporting the implementation of existing commitments at the national level to advance gender equality. In support of this goal, UNIFEM works in the following thematic areas: • Strengthening women’s economic security and rights; • Ending violence against women; • Reversing the spread of HIV and AIDS among women and girls; • Achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. ActiveArt is co-founded by long-term art-collaborators Tarot Couzyn and Orla O’Flanagan. They work in partnership with local and national groups, to create innovative and participatory community art. Over the past 6 years they have worked in South Africa, Ireland and the Kyrgyz Republic creating art for egalitarian social and political...
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...positive quality that female writers have is that they can describe their character’s feelings and minds very well. Most of the time they can express feelings with their pens far better than men. Kegan Gardines believes that these differences in experience will be apparent in the writing. She gives examples of the characteristics of women’s writing that differ from men’s writing: “recurrent imagery and distinctive concept … for example, imagery of confinement and unsentimental descriptions of child care” (178). As for men’s writing, “male fiction often splits characters into disjunct fragments, while female characters in novels by women tend to dissolve and merge into each other (185). Finally, she states, “female identity is a process” (179). Gender influences development of...
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...Whittaker, Helene. (1995) Renowned professor of classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Helene whittaker is known for mainly being concerned with the Greek Bronze age. She wrote about the Gender role in The Odyssey, specifically focusing on the women's role and how women's treatment by men can be indicated as sexist. They are usually identified by their looks and treated based on how their physical appearance is, and whether they have power over any men. She makes it clear that throughout Odysseus’ journey to the underworld, he spots and gets a glimpse of different variety of women. She says that throughout the Odyssey, they do not state anything about the women’s accomplishments in their lifetime, but only about their important son's, good looks and pleasingness, and their affairs with gods. She also talks about how women are known for their action and activity towards their sons and husbands, but never for the action and deeds of their own, or how they are, nor what accomplishments they did for themselves. Helene states that it seems in the book Odyssey, the only achievements women could achieve was being pretty and attractive to they eyes of the men. She proves throughout her paper that even Homer made it sound as...
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