We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The ideals surrounding sex and gender are perpetual. Arguments are still debated today regarding whether gender is a socially constructed idea, or whether the female and male sexes are naturally submissive and dominant respectively. […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The purpose of my investigation is to find out how television programmes like ‘The Simpsons’ influence the way children behave. These programmes manipulate people’s ideas of gender because they show Stereotypical male and female […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Although women have always played central roles in the consumption of America’s popular culture, their most significant role has been the largely passive one of providing popular culture with its major images. That is, […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In this essay I aim to examine how ideological and cultural assumptions and standards of femininity influence the construction of racial identity with regards to black feminine identity. As Cuomo and Hall identify, the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Looking at the representation of war, terror and international relations, feminist scholars such as Enloe and Cohen have suggested we look beyond the politics of diplomacy and foreign policy to consider how international politics […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The aim of this research was to investigate opinions about gender roles in cultural context. A short interview was conducted with a White female British Students on her opinions about gender roles. The following […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Gender performance refers to the ways in which men and women are expected to carry themselves in society. It reflects the stereotypical ways of thinking and behaving which we believe we must adhere to. […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Construction of one’s gender often starts at birth, and perhaps even before. John Bowlby (1953) says that the preparation is the very beginning of gender construction. It is even possible to find out the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Women are now in more paid work than previously with a rise of 2. 25 million in female workers between 1969-89, compared to a rise of only 0. 5 million men. More recently about […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The period in Spain between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed what has come to be known as the greatest era of Spanish history. Not only did Spain see the peak of its power […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Gender refers to the psychological and emotional characteristics of individuals. Defined broadly, gender includes such aspects as personality traits but also involves psychological makeup, attitudes, beliefs and values as well as sexual orientation and […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are set of eight goals agreed in a meeting held at the United Nations World Summit on social development in Copenhagen in the year 1995 to assist in the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The main issue of this study was to compare men seeking women and women seeking men via personal ads. There were 40 ads that were been analyzed, 20 of them were men seeking women […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Throughout ‘Hero and Leander’, Marlowe presents an ambivalent attitude towards gender, where the boundaries normally found in male and female stereotypes are explored and often ridiculed. Traditional perspectives of gender become subverted and Marlowe […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy David Morley’s article ‘The framework of family viewing in Great Britain’ attempts to interpret the way in which families consume media, in this case through television. The main principles of the text appear to […]