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    Traditional gender roles have existed for many centuries. Throughout the history of humanity among various cultures and eras‚ there are pieces of evidence and traces of unfair treatment of women. Women have a role of a wife waiting for her husband to return from the war‚ a mother of the conquering hero or a great scientist‚ or a daughter who is destined to marry the prince of another country in order to consolidate the alliance between the two countries. Life of a woman was determined by the man

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    committed in the 1920’s‚ why does Fitzgerald focus his attention so much on prohibition and gender roles? The era of the 1920’s was a time of prosperity and corruption throughout society. Some wealth was gained through honest work while other wealth was earned through greed‚ organized crime‚ and other illegal acts. In Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ he displays multiple accounts of prohibition‚ gender roles and organized crime and shows how they were present in everyday life. Due to the 18th amendment

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    Background of the Research Gender refers to the social roles and status difference between man and woman in a society (Anderson: 1988). Discrimination refers to unfair treatment of a particular group over the other. Nature has divided human beings into two halves with responsibilities best suited to them and stated the rights of both. Gender discrimination is the practice in which any one side is prejudiced. Mostly females are prone to gender discrimination. Inequality based on gender is a bitter social

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    In the "Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚" by Gabriel Garcia‚ the difference between gender roles of women and men are widely expressed and play a key role throughout the entire novel. It shows how gender roles are actually not as innocent as they seem‚ and in the novel they even can lead to an entire town being culpable in the murder of a man who could be completely innocent. If it wasn’t for the way society unreasonably expects girls to be virgins and guys to defend their honor to the death‚ Santiago

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    traditional gender roles; Disney states that a woman will only be able to thrive in society if she conforms to her prescribed gender roles. A “bad girl” is characterized as being violent‚ aggressive‚ worldly‚ and often monstrous; whereas‚ traditional gender roles favor a “good girl” who is identified as gentle‚ submissive‚ virginal‚ and angelic. In the opening scene‚ Alice is deemed the “bad girl” because she is confident‚ curious‚ educated‚ which does not fit into traditional gender roles for females

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    Kramer produced socially conscious films displaying the ills of society. Through Ship of Fools‚ he critiques the gender roles imposed upon women. This feminist movement became an essential component of the decade’s rights revolution. The era sharply criticized gender roles and traditional relationships. Furthermore‚ the 1960s had a sexual revolution that liberated women from the role of procreator. For example‚ in 1960 “the pill‚” an oral contraceptive for women‚ was released. This contraceptive

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    Eyre‚ as a means to question a gendered system of values and the role and functions women played in a society that was clearly male dominated. The titular character of Jane Eyre is meant to portray the negative consequences being controlled and suppressed by social norms can have on women. The class and age differences between the two characters serve as both an exaggeration and commentary on the extreme binary logic of Victorian gender relations. In Esther Godfrey’s article “Jane Eyre: Governess

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    high-income nations still continue to face challenges because of their gender‚ and those in low-income nations often remain thought of as property. From a symbolic interactionist perspective‚ gender is an issue that is based on many underlying historical concepts‚ and it continues to contribute to world-wide poverty. As symbolic interactionists view social problems using a microlevel perspective‚ they see that gender roles are learned behaviors taught by individual socializing agents in each society

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    Part one Gender roles of diverse cultures have differed immensely throughout history. The evolution of gender roles first began in the Paleolithic Age and then began to transform with the transformation of the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age. Women in Mesopotamia‚ India‚ Greece‚ China‚ and Rome were not treated as equals and viewed as inferior to men. Cultures like Egypt and Persia had similar laws for women and treated them with more respect out of any of the other cultures.

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    point out John Henry’s love for the doll Frankie gifted to him and how often he plays with it (17‚ 18‚ 23‚ 27‚ 28‚ 31). Playing with dolls is a behavior typically scene as feminine. In furthering her presentation of John Henry as existing outside of gender norms‚ when he imitates the performance of “The Vagabond King‚” John Henry chooses to imitate the heroine of the play instead of a male character (9). John Henry‚ in the second act‚ puts on Berenice’s hat‚ shoes‚ and carries her pocketbook (85). Also

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