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    African-American Pimps

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    In the academic literature a pimp is defined as ‘one who controls the actions and lives off the proceeds of one or more women who work the streets’ (Williamson and Cluse-Tolar 2002). But this gender-neutral language belies the gender and racial stereotypes usually applied to the figure of the pimp. Pimps are almost always seen to be men who exploit female sex workers; in film and popular literature‚ pimps are often African—American men. Clearly‚ however‚ pimping can be performed on and off the street;

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    The essentialist assumptions concerning women’s gendered position subject them to differential treatment from the criminal justice system (Jewkes‚ 2004: 111). This is because the law was written for men by men‚ without recognition that women may have the ‘same criminal potential’ (Short‚ 1989‚ cited in Knelman‚ 1998: 9). The image of violence that is maintained within society is based on male violence‚ hence‚ society struggles to conceptualise violence committed by women (Shaw in Dobash et‚ al.‚

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    Sweetland‚ & Qing Zhang‚ (eds.). Gendered practices in language. 339-354. Stanford‚ CA: CSLI Publications. MeGloin‚ Naomi. (1990). Sex difference and sentence final particles. In Sachiko Ide & Naomi McGloin (eds.). Aspects of Japanese women ’s language. 23-41. Tokyo: Kuroshio. Miyazaki‚ Ayumi. (2002). Relational shift: Japanese girls ’ nontraditional first person pronouns. In Sarah Benor‚ Mary Rose‚ Devyani Sharma‚ Julie Sweetland‚ & Qing Zhang‚ (eds.). Gendered practices in language. 355-374. Stanford

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    of sports‚ men were given more competitive roles‚ while women were directed to the supportive roles for men where they would be much less involved in the game. From a sociological point of view‚ this contrast in gender roles would imply that these gendered meanings are legitimized at that point of time.

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    by Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes. Forbes. (2013). Web. 26 Nov. 2013. Patmore‚ Coventry. The Angel in the House. Project Gutenberg. 1 May 2003. 41. Web. 15 March 2012. [ISBN: N/A. Total pages: 106] Wood‚ T. Julia. Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on Views of Gender. Gendered Lives: Communication‚ Gender‚ and Culture Chapter 9. (1994): 31-39. Print. 25 Nov. 2013. Woolf‚ Virginia. “Professions for Women.” The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English. 5th ed. Ed. A

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    In the article titled‚ “One Word‚ Two Words‚ Pink Words‚ Blue Words” by Debuk‚ the concept of gendered language is addressed. The article discusses the gender-marked patterns in language used everyday‚ the consequences that result from these patterns‚ and proposes a solution for these consequences. While the ideas proclaimed in the article are sound‚ there are some issues one could bring up in regards to whether or not the suggested solution would merely reinforce the problem‚ a fact that the author

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    Halloween Gender Roles

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    Halloween costumes are definitely gendered and marketed to a specific gender‚ and it is rare to come across a gender neutral costume and never is it seen that a boy is wearing a princess dress on the packaging. It is also very common for Halloween costumes to separated into boy and girl sections at stores or on websites. If the costume is sparkly‚ has a dress or skirt‚ and described as “cute” or “sexy” it is geared to girls‚ even if occupations that do not have these gender differences in uniforms

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    Transitioning on from the perspective of a communications graduate‚ we move on to see how gendered roles are portrayed in Disney Princess movies and how they affect young children‚ from the perspective of a psychology graduate. Katie Lopreore‚ the psychology graduate from Middle Tennessee State University‚ writes about how the influences of the Disney Princess films shape children through their gendered characteristics‚ in her journal Gender roles portrayals of modern Disney royalty: stereotypical

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    King Horn Gender Roles

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    bold lad‚ tall‚ fair and strong”. (Hays‚ p.7) This description suggests that even the enemies of the story‚ the Saracens‚ consider him to be too attractive to be outright murdered. We also see his love interest‚ Rymenheilde‚ forgoing traditional gendered expectations. She is a strong character‚ and perhaps could even be considered an unusual portrayal of a woman for the time in which it was written‚ although it has been suggested that the reason for her being so headstrong was due to her being overcome

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    getting one from a family member. Many of these nails salons are in white middle and upper class neighborhoods because they want to cater to them and make more money. The white women that go to these nail salons do not realize what they are doing. “Gendered service practices intersect with dominant representations of the Asian model minority in ways that uphold the racial and class privilege of white middle-class and upper-class customers white reinforcing notions of Asians as a laudable but still marginalized

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