Essays on Gender Issues Page 6

Gender Roles From Ancient to Present Times There is a natural relationship between men and women. They have their individual roles and position in the society. These roles and positions of men and women are not written in verbatim in any book of law. Instead they are manifested in the culture of the society with…

Assess the impact of gender on middle-class women’s roles at the turn of the 20th century and today?             In the traditional perspective, women are always considered to be the part of the society that is left in the house to handle all of the domestic responsibilities in the household. Women are trained at an…

Susan Glaspell wrote at a time when the borders between the private and public spheres were starting to break down. No longer relegated to the home, but not yet acknowledged in the marketplace, women were trapped in a position of liminality, pinned between the customary female and male worlds by the expectations of both. Glaspell’s…

Throughout various cultures, especially in European society, women have traditionally held the role of primary caregiver within the household. This role has been accompanied by other restrictive beliefs and expectations placed upon them. Women were tasked with managing social gatherings, maintaining the family’s reputation, cooking, and occasionally receiving assistance from their children for cleaning tasks….

Schools believe that co-educational schools are a better choice compared to single- gender schools. I don’t see any harm in single sex schools, but I don’t see any real overwhelming benefit either. Don’t think that anything is to be gained by separating the genders. People in the world are male and female. School is a…

Carmen is a depictive work that represents the social and gender issues that were present in nineteenth century France and Spain. It introduces readers to numerous aspects of life including treatment of women, prejudices towards individuals and groups, social structures, and accepted social behavior. Carmen, as both a novel and opera, is a literary work…

A Masculinist Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner An individual’s esteem of himself and thus, by extension, others’ opinion of him is determined by a simultaneous play of variegated factors. This paper is an attempt to unravel various such subtleties of a masculine identity as depicted in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled…

Modernism implies beginning of a new era – A period marked with the considerable change from the Romanticism to the whole new technological and intellectual orders of the day, which exerted considerable influence on the artists and the men of literary genius. In this period, which marked an end of the 19th century and beginning…

Introduction             Although Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” seemed to portray initially a simple suspenseful story about the horrifying tale of Count Dracula, a more insightful look within analytical perspectives would reveal the embedded meanings and concepts in Stoker’s novel. Many literary critics have explored the common themes of gender and sexuality or sensuality issues embedded within…

In her book “Gender Trouble” (1990), Judith Butler, a feminist theorist, argues that gender is not only a social construct but also a form of performance. According to Butler, gender is like a show or a disguise that individuals put on. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, this understanding of gender as a performance greatly influences the…