Essays on Gender

How are gender roles learned? Gender itself refers to the socially constructed attributions that a given society considers appropriate for men and women and the outward expressions of what society considers “masculine” or “feminine. ” In many ways, gender, in response to changing generational attitudes and societal norms and expectations, is neither innate nor necessarily…

Throughout history, humans have always sought ways to predict the gender of their unborn child. Ancient wisdom suggests that specific signs may indicate a baby’s gender, such as craving sweets or having a slower heart rate for girls, and consuming salty foods, an active baby, or carrying low for boys. However, scientific progress has made…

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In Thailand, there has been an increase in the number of transgendered females, leading to the recognition of a third gender role known as ladyboys. These individuals are also referred to as “kathoey” or “sao praphet song” in the Thai language, which translates to ‘second kind of woman’ (Winter 2008, 47). A transgendered female is…

Is It Inherently Negative? Egalia’s Daughters My first reaction to Egalia’s Daughters, by Gerd Brantenberg, was something like “ WHAT is this ” . I was instantly really baffled, and had no thought what this writer was composing approximately. In fact, I felt as though I opened the book to the center of a narrative,…

Response to Compliance is Gendered Dean Dean Spade outlines the difficulties trans-gendered individuals have in advocating for their rights to safe spaces and gender inclusive policies. As most trans-gendered people experience some form of abuse and/or trauma, and are unwelcome in many high schools and street outreach programs, their disenfranchisement often turns into a vicious…

Another big factor that seems to determine if behavior is normal or abnormal is age (Dammar Hansel, 2013). Classification of Abnormal Behavior Behavior is classified as abnormal and normal. Situational factors can make those classifications different. Based on a person’s views and beliefs abnormal behavior can change. Normal behavior for a one year old is…

In the 20th century, women are given much more freedom than they were in the 1890s. In the past, women were not as liberated as men and were not privileged to have proper education or the right to vote, nor were they allowed to be outside of society’s expectations. The short story The Story of…

Dr. Strangelove: Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. – A textual and contextual analysis In 1964 with the Cold War at its peak, the Vietnam War about to get underway and the Cuban Missile Crisis still prominent in the minds of its audience ‘Dr. Strangelove: Or how I Learned to…

Synthesis on Language and Gender Hegemony is a concept that has been use to describe dominance of one group over the other. There are also several processes by which a dominant culture maintains its dominant position; they can use the institutions to formalize power, the employment of a bureaucracy to make power seem abstract (and, therefore,…