Gender and Sexuality
Define sex.

The term sex means those characteristics, biological as well as physiological, that define men and women. Sex is better defined by categorizing sexes such as make and females. Major characteristic of sex is that its aspects do not considerably change within different societies. To further explain, specific sex related examples are that women menstruate and have breasts developed capable of lactation. Such characteristics are absent in male sex. Male sex on the other hand has testicles and carries stronger bones. Such is not the case with female sex (HO).

Define gender.

Gender is different from sex and is generally referred as socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and expectation societies that are associated with male and female sex. The gender roles are usually the construction that a society gives to male and female roles. For instance women in the U.S. earn significantly less money than male role. This is due…...

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Works Cited

Adriaens, Andreas, and de Block Adriaens. "The evolution of a social construction: the case of male homosexuality." Perspectives in biology and medicine. 49.4 (2006): 570-585. Web. 1 Mar. 2013.

Allan, Elizabeth J. "Hazing and gender: Analyzing the obvious." The hazing reader (2004): 275-294.

Fennell, Julie Lynn. "Men Bring Condoms, Women Take Pills: Men's and Women's Roles in Contraceptive Decision Making" Gender & Society 25(4):496-521. 2011.

Hooks, Bell. Feminism is for everybody: Passionate politics. Cambridge: South End Press, 2000. Vii-ix. Print.

Gender and Sexuality
In these two readings both authors look at the way various media view and determine the societal perception and response to women and women's issues. Both authors are concerned with questioning and interrogating the way women and gender are seen and perceived. There are however marked differences in their approaches and subject matter. Clover in her work Men, Women and Chainsaws views the way gender is reflected and understood though an analysis of female and gender roles in cotemporary film -- particularly the horror genre. Her analyses is more inclined to understanding the perceptions of culture, and of the female hero-victim, gleaned through the understanding of popular film. Her work is better understood as cultural critique and analysis rather than hard feminism per se.

Duden on the other hand also critiques and interrogates the way women are seen, viewed and manipulated in culture. Her analysis questions the very theoretical…...

I have often wondered why we seem to live in such an angry society, and reading these essays makes it seem much more plausible. Most of society is angry about the way they are treated, the things they have to fight for, and the difficulties they face each day. There is much more to the study of gender, sexuality, and race in America than a simple difference between the sexes. Gender, race, and religion are some of the most powerful forces in America, and most of the people are often on the outside looking in. I know as a woman and an Asian-American, that is a common feeling for me. Our society may be a "melting pot," but that does not mean that everyone receives the same treatment or the same opportunities. There are still too many differences that people let get in the way of the things we…...

Moreover, in addition to narrowing the purview of human sexuality to groups within the larger society, the sociocultural aspect examines social norm influences including the effects of external factors such as mass media or politics. These movements can assist in bring about significant and widespread changes in the social norm, such as the sexual revolution and the advent of feminism.
Overview of Theory and Practice

Theories regarding gender and sexuality date back to ancient ome and Greece. Of those that are particularly interesting is the greater acceptance of same sex relations in ancient history and culture; between men, between women, and between men and boys.

One of the earliest 'feminist' from the same era is Sappho, who has been particularly influential because of her expression and lesbianism. She is one of the few if not only female voices from the literature that dates back to Ancient ome and Greece.

In "Making Sex" Thomas…...

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References

Allen, Emily and Dino Felluga. "General Introduction to Theories of Gender & Sex,"

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Available from   Accessed 22 November 2011.http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/modules/introduction.html .

Applebaum, Stanley and Candace Ward (eds). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

(U.S.: Dover Publications, 1996).

A third reason is that members of the staff or leadership teams are barely taught to think of and use gender in delicate ways. A last reason given is that without the gender justice lens, the work of social justice organizations and the feminist movement overall will be negatively impacted.
11.) Describe the author's arguments in regards to the 3 aspects you listed in #2.

First, democracy was viewed as only existing if those that are governing were there because those who were being governed agreed with their being there. The author thought that the idea that government is in existence only for the betterment of the people, with everyone included, was not being supported by not allowing women the equal right to vote.

Second, democracy was seen as a system where everyone was able to express their ideas as well as their concerns in order to dictate their own individual likings.…...

Gender and Sexuality in the Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Science fiction, more so than any other literary genre, explores the question of 'what if' in a future-directed scenario. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin features a fictional country called Karhide on a planet called Gethen that lacks a concept of what we would call gender. Beings on the planet are not divided into male or female. In creating such a world, the author highlights the extent to which false gender stereotypes permeate our own consciousness. The people of Gethen only engage in sexual intercourse for reproductive purposes and the same person can fulfill either the male or female function. The unisexual beings unite during a period called 'kemmer' and alternate gender during each period of 'heat.'

Having non-reproductive sexual desire or being only one gender (like the visitor and emissary from Earth Genly Ai) is…...

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Work Cited

Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace, 1987.

In addition, the eseache note that the elatively small sample size in thei study did not allow sepaate genetic analyses fo males and females (Coolidge et al.).
Envionmentalism (social influence). A ecent study by Wallien and Cohen-Kettenis (2008) analyzed psychosexual outcomes of gende-dysphoic childen at 16 yeas and olde to detemine childhood chaacteistics elated to psychosexual outcomes based on vaious social influences that may be expeienced duing the timefames studied. In this egad, this study began with a cohot of 77 childen (mean age=8.4 yeas, ange=5-12 yeas); at follow-up about 3-1/2 yeas late, 54 of these childen (mean age=18.9 yeas, ange=16-28 yeas) wee still available and amenable to continue paticipation in the study. Of the oiginal 77 subjects, 54 subjects, o 27% (12 boys and 9 gils), wee found to be gende dysphoic (the eseaches defined this cohot as the "pesistence goup"), and 43% (desistance goup: 28 boys and 5…...

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references for cross-sex roles in make believe play or persistent fantasies of being the other sex

4) intense desire to participate in the stereotypical games and pas times of the other sex

5) strong preference for playmates of the other sex

B. Persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriate ness in the gender role of that sex. In children, the disturbance is manifested by any of the following: in boys, assertion that his penis or testes are disgusting or will disappear or assertion that it would be better not to have a penis, or aversion toward rough-and-tumble play and rejection of male stereotypical toys, games, and activities; in girls, rejection of urinating in a sitting position, assertion that she has or will grow a penis, or assertion that she does not want to grow breasts or menstruate, or marked aversion toward normative feminine clothing.

C. The disturbance is not concurrent with a physical intersex condition.

A complete act of sexual intercourse cannot occur with an unaroused male, but can occur with an unaroused female. That is simply biology. Sex may be far superior when a woman is aroused, but even desperately unwilling and unaroused women can physically engage in sex. That scenario, at least for heterosexual situations, is not the same for men. A certain level of arousal is needed for men to be able to engage in a certain level of sexuality. Moreover, a reflection that this arousal is necessary, whether in an ad for Viagra or in an ad for a product like the KY Yours and Mine, does show at least a tacit acknowledgment that male arousal is important to male satisfaction. If most women require some type of digital or oral stimulation to climax, it is clear that male arousal is not a critical element for female satisfaction. However, it…...

In fact, they allowed her to play, and then seemed to structure the entire game around keeping the ball away from her, except for allowing her to actually score; in an action that the observer was forced to conclude was intentional. Two of the men playing that game asked the author for her phone number after the game. No groups of men allowed the author to join the game and continued playing the same type of rough-and-tumble tackle football that they were playing prior to her request.
The third experiment involved the author changing a flat tire, with her male companion standing by and not helping. No female drivers stopped to offer assistance, nor did they seem to react to the author changing the tire. Four male drivers stopped to offer assistance. Two of them continued on their way when the author assured them that she had it under control.…...

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References

Aguinis, H., & Henle, C. (2001). Effects of nonverbal behavior on perceptions of a female employee's power bases. The Journal of Social Psychology, 141(4), 537-539.

O'Sullivan, L.F., Hoffman, S., Harrison, a., & Dolezal, C. (2006). Men, multiple sexual partners, and young adults' sexual relationships: understanding the role of gender in the study of risk. The Journal of Urban Health. 83(4): 695-708.

Gender Norms and Sexuality

As she explains to the reader: "I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked. I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one" (idem, 173).
The young woman who was actually full of energy and eager to live with more intensity than what life offered her in the quite almost deserted Thornfield Hall, during winter, has fallen for the first stranger she met because he offered her the first occasion to feel more alive than her only companions at Thornfield ever offered her. Of course, she is unaware of her feelings yet, but a certain distress from her usual routine is already in place.

Mr. Rochester will soon befriend the strange creature he found on his grounds…...

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Works Cited:

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Published 1850.Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Nov 23, 2005

Bronte, Charlotte. Villette. Published by Oxford University Press, 1902

Ciolcowski, Laura E. Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette': Forgeries of Sex and Self. Studie in the Novel. Vol. 26. 1994

Teachman, Debra. Understanding Jane Eyre: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood Press. 2001

Extrasensory perception -- also known simply as ESP -- is something that scientists have been studying for decades. Brownstein (2011) notes that until recently discussion and testing of ESP has centered on the human experience. He claims that there hasn't been any type of examination on the physical conditions that are independent of human beings, however, without which, "ESP would not be possible as a human faculty" (p. 73). Brownstein (2011) claims that sensing another's feelings is independent of reading people's minds and seeing other people's activities. In order to show how this sensing of other's feelings can work, Brownstein (2011) attempts to show that there is a foundation that has nothing to do with human experience for all of the types of ESP aforementioned. There are our senses, of course, (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) and the fact that we all have physical capabilities (even though they do tend…...

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References

Brownstein, D. (2011). On the physical basis of ESP and telepathy. The journal of spirituality and paranormal studies,34(2), 73-83.

Myers, D.G. (2009). Psychology in everyday life. Worth Publishers.

Sex Gender Sexuality
Sex, gender and sexuality are issues that have been thoroughly explored in various field including criminology, psychology and sociology. The research has revealed important facts related to how sex, gender and sexuality are viewed in society. The purpose of this discussion is to explore Sex, gender and sexuality from a sociological perspective and evaluate the implications for criminology.

Sex, gender and sexuality

According to an article entitled "Sex, Gender and Sexuality," "medical and scientific definitions of male and female are still incomplete. Interestingly, sex is still defined by the gonads. Stedman's Medical Dictionary (2001) defines female as "denoting the sex that bears the young or the ovum" and male as "denoting the sex to which those belong that produce spermatozoa." omen who have had oophorectomies are still considered female. Similarly, men with azoospermia are considered male because, according to the definition, they belong to the sex that normally does produce…...

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Works Cited

Clark H. (2007) Judging rape: Public attitudes and sentencing. Australian Institute of Family Studies. 17-25. Retrieved from;   / newsletter / n14pdf/n14_5.pdfhttp://aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs 

Honkatukia, P. (2001) Rough sex? Understandings of Rape in Finnish Police Reports. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology & Crime Prevention, 2001, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p15-30

McCabe J., Tanner, A.E. & Heiman, J.R.. (2010) The Impact of Gender Expectations on Meanings of Sex and Sexuality: Results from a Cognitive Interview Study. Sex Roles 62( ae), p252-263,

"Sex, Gender and Sexuality." Retrieved from;  http://www.genderandhealth.ca/en/modules/sexandsexuality/gss-intersex-issues-02.jsp?r=

Race, Gender, Sex - Rollin' the Rs
I wrote this to try to mirror some of the youthful feel of the book because that's what comes across. It is a REACTIONARY piece, not just an intellectual representation of the contents. That is what the assignment asks for. I tweaked it to read a bit better here and there but I think this is what was requested. The full assignment request said: "Read Rolling the Rs by Zamora Linmark and write a reaction paper on it. And talk about how does it deal with the issues of race gender and sexuality?" This does that in an appropriate way.

Rolling the R's is little bites in big mouthfuls. It's an indication that size matters even if largeness itself means little about who will prevail. The little people (the young ones) in the story take on very big challenges and, ultimately, they fail in ways…...

Carol Christ talks about women creating and publicizing the concept of a 'Goddess' and the popularity f the Goddess concept for women, particularly given that the male 'God' has been created by a male populace who has created God in his image and often used Him to penalize women. Carol likewise discusses how all aspects of women that were condemned because they were seen to be earth bound -- such as birth, menstruation, caring for the living and dying -- are elevated by some feminists today into ceremonies that promote their life-giving and unique contribution. Carol too notes that, even thoguh taboos against female characteristics (such as menstruation) persist in some religions today, the woman of today is less likely to allow herself to be knocked down and more likely to see God as a Goddess too, either within or from without herself or to be both internal and external…...

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Woman is no longer dependent on man. She has become a creator. And, therefore, just as man did and does, she too has created God in her own image.

Source

Christ, Carol P. "Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections (1978)." In Theorizing Feminisms, edited by Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger, 211-19. New York: Oxford, 2006.

These people put across extremist beliefs and are unforgiving to anyone that they consider to be corrupt.
Sexuality is a taboo topic in Afghanistan, with people within the country's borders considering that something as inoffensive as hair should not be shown in public. The fact that Setara's scarf slipped and revealed her hair in front of a large audience infuriated most people in the country and influenced them in starting a campaign meant to harshly penalize anyone who expressed the slightest intention to act against Afghan tradition. For most people in Afghanistan, Setara broke the boundaries of modesty at the time when she started to dance. The fact that the country accepted to have the "Afghan Star" show might have influenced some people in believing that conditions have changed and that the masses were no longer willing to discriminate. However, reality was particularly harsh for Setara, who was subjected to…...

Yes, there are many essay topics in literature that can be debated from opposing viewpoints. Some examples include:

1. The role of fate vs. free will in Shakespeare's plays
2. The moral ambiguity of the protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
3. The portrayal of gender and sexuality in Virginia Woolf's works
4. The effectiveness of satire in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels"
5. The value of studying classic literature vs. contemporary literature

These topics can lead to interesting and thought-provoking debates, as they allow for different interpretations and perspectives on the themes and messages presented in literary works.
6. The impact of historical context on....

1. The impact of belief in an afterlife on mental health and well-being

2. The cultural and historical development of beliefs in an afterlife across different civilizations

3. Near-death experiences: exploring the similarities and differences in accounts from individuals of different cultural and religious backgrounds

4. The role of technology in shaping contemporary beliefs and understandings of life after death

5. Cross-cultural perspectives on reincarnation and rebirth

6. The relationship between belief in an afterlife and attitudes towards death and dying in modern society

7. The intersection of science and spirituality in exploring the concept of life after death

8. The portrayal....

Certainly! Here are a few lesser-known but interesting essay topics on Julian Barnes:

1. The role of photography and visual art in Barnes' work
2. The influence of classical literature and mythology in Barnes' writing
3. Barnes' exploration of memory and the nature of personal identity in his novels
4. The significance of music and musicians in Barnes' novels, such as in "The Noise of Time" and "The Sense of an Ending"
5. The portrayal of aging and mortality in Barnes' work, particularly in "Levels of Life" and "Nothing to Be Frightened Of"
6. Barnes' engagement with contemporary political and social issues in his novels, such....

1. A Comparison of Realism in the Works of Balzac and Zola: Analyzing the depiction of society and human nature in their novels.

2. The Influence of Social Class on Character Development in Balzac's and Zola's Novels: Exploring how societal structures shape the behavior and decisions of their protagonists.

3. The Portrayal of Women in Balzac and Zola: Examining the role of gender and femininity in their works and how it reflects the social norms of the time.

4. The Use of Naturalism in Zola's Works and its Contrast with Balzac's Realism: Analyzing how Zola's focus on determinism and environmental influences differs from....