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    GENDER ROLE PORTRAYAL AND STEREOTYPING IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE As part of the growing process of children‚ reading of different types of children’s literature helps them in developing the much needed communication and language skills (Fitzpatrick‚ 2009). However‚ whether fortunately or unfortunately‚ that is not all this literature does for these young minds; it either shapes their minds positively or negatively according to how it draws to them the picture of gender roles and differences in the

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    distress; the woman in this case mainly being used as a plot device‚ and showcasing the brave nature of our hero. However‚ in Sembene’s “Xala”‚ the female characters; Awa‚ Oumi‚ N’Goné‚ and Rama represent show much more‚ even if their own societal roles function to‚ again‚ define the male character‚ in this case their husband/father‚ El Hadji. Through their personal behaviors‚ dress‚ and interactions with others‚ Sembene crafts these characters to be symbolic representations of the stages of evolution

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    Alex Hummel World Civilization 1 Lysistrata When Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata he gave a new perspective on the role women played in Greece. He empowered women during a time when women had very little say in society. Of course strictly fictional‚ Aristophanes writes about how women could end the Peloponnesian war. After years of war‚ Lysistrata comes up with a plan to bring peace. Through her knowledge and wit she rallies the women from Greece to deploy her plan. Lysistrata stays calm

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    Oscar Wilde inverts conventional gender assumptions‚ and accepted norms. He was one of the first writers of the 19th century to move away from melodramatic plays and adopt a sense of realism to his writing. He uses comedy to be able to lightheartedly mock and critique power structures of Victorian England. The ridiculousness of how Lady Bracknell upholds Victorian traditions and moral conduct‚ yet at the same time assumes the role of a father is what makes gender role reversals comedic in The Importance

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    The Role of Women in “Hamlet” As in many biblical stories‚ history has proven time and time again that it is women who have always corrupted humanity. Ever since the shift from the ancient societies women have been depicted in a negative light though out many different stories. Women have been depicted as the race that has ruined innocents and corruption in religion. Whether depicted as innocent or conniving‚ women always seem to corrupt man through different methods. It is as inevitable as death

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    Setting including time period and location can have a direct effect on how genders roles are perceived. I believe that this is true in both fiction and in real life when the times are good and the country is stable people will fall into the age old mindset that men are the rulers of the household‚ country and any establishment of power while women are the homemakers‚ the healers and the bearers of children. This is because people are afraid of changing anything lest their comfort and stability be

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    Sociologists argue that the expectations we have of males and females are not based on any natural‚ biological differences between them‚ but‚ are the result of the different upbringing in different cultures. In ‘Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies’‚ Margaret Mead describes three New Guinea tribes: The Arapesh‚ The Mundugumor and the Tchambuli. Among the Arapesh‚ the ideal male adult has a gentle‚ passive and cherishing nature and resembles the feminine type in our culture. In relationship

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    Gender and gender roles play a center role in Trifles as they dictate how the characters behave‚ emphasizing the differences between men and women in this time period. The men are labeled as the workers/investigators who are dominant in this society while the women are subordinate/lower status individuals that are confined to the home and feminine concerns. Mr. Hale even claims that he “didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much of a difference…” when referring to Mr. and Mrs. Wright (1108 Trifles)

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    overall change to the new place. Genders have different roles and expectations to meet in each of these cultures. Depending on where one is born‚ he or she will adopt the gender characteristics of that region compared to one that is born on the other side of the world raised with different standards. Males are usually expected to be independent‚ hard-working‚ and problem solvers. On the other hand‚ females are sensitive‚ caring‚ and are

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    Greek theater served as an important aspect in history‚ this is because of the views of culture which were explained in it. Plays commonly referenced important cultural views such as; political‚ social‚ and religious themes. They offered new ways to view things‚ and helped to form what we have come to know as the base of Greek culture. Athens a city-state in Greece began a long on-going war with Sparta‚ the powerful city-state of southern Greece’s Peloponnesian Peninsula. Religion‚ politics and popular

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