Clitoris

I endeavor to analyze what I have understood of identity and discrimination from Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer winning book Middlesex. Middlesex has developed my understanding of what I know of gender, gender identity, cultural and immigration identity, and race and discrimination but I will focus on gender identity as Middlesex concreted my view on the matter. Middlesex is a narrative told by the protagonist Cal/lie, a hermaphrodite who is raised as a girl until his adolescence when he decides…

The film Hysteria (Wexler, 2011) takes place in Victorian England when Hysteria was known to be a disorder caused by a women's overactive uterus. Dr. Dalrymple was an older man who owned a practice specifically to treat women of Hysteria. The treatment of hysteria was to realign the women's uterus, which is really just bringing women to orgasm. Dr. Dalrymple had two daughters in the film, whose names were Charlotte and Emily. Emily was very supportive of her father and studied pathology, while…

Every culture develops rituals of initiation into adulthood. These rituals could include retreats, individual reflections, or physical examples like getting a tattoo or cutting hair. Some cultures in particular, may have more drastic measures of initiation. For example, circumcision is a surgical procedure in which the child is transformed into an adult. An initiation ritual that has stirred up quite the controversy is female genital cutting, as it is not a traditional ritual that most people…

Anabolic steroids come with several serious side effects as well. In men, they could develop; prominent breasts, baldness, shrunken testicles, infertility, impotence, and prostate gland enlargement. Women may develop; a deeper voice, an enlarged clitoris, increased body hair, baldness, and infrequent or absent periods. Not only do steroids have many physical effects, but they also have several mental and emotional effects. Steroids affect your brain, making the user more aggressive than normal.…

During the 19th century, middle class women’s behavior and roles were being portrayed in a certain way with the idea of the cult of domesticity. The cult of domesticity was created to give limitations to women in the private and public sphere. Women’s role was mainly in the home as caring for her family and participating in house work. Also, women had little interactions with the public because of the cult of domesticity. The cult is based on these four virtues of principles “piety, purity,…

men, androgenic steroids can: Reduce sperm count. Shrink the testicles. Cause you not to be able to father children. Enlarge the breasts. In women, androgenic steroids can: Increase body hair. Make skin rough. Decrease breast size. Enlarge the clitoris. Deepen the voice. In both men and women, androgenic steroids can cause: High blood pressure, heart attack, or stroke. Higher levels of bad cholesterol (LDL) and lower levels of good cholesterol (HDL). Liver disease and possibly liver cancer.…

the first time, you get thirty lashes. If a second, branding on your right and or left cheek. If a third, cutting off your ear. And if a fourth, castration, if you were male. If you were female, (depending on the master’s ghastly creativity) your clitoris was removed. By this time, the Africans decided to be a bit more creative and sleek by poisoning their master’s food, burning down barns and successful plantations, and assassinating people. This mainly materialized during harvest season,…

Intro and Thesis: In the Reading of “A Living Call” by Rafael, Luévano he depicted in Mexico the hundreds of women who have gone missing or have been murdered by men. The main cause of this is globalization, which created that NAFTA put our factories in Mexico for cheap labor. This caused women to go to these areas for jobs, but live in slums outside of the factories. Another cause is the lack of law enforcement, because most are dealing with the drug trafficking which causes them to oversee…

Non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia or NCAH is a disorder that affects both men and women from late childhood through the rest of their lives. Compared to its sister form, classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia, it is non-life threatening. The Mayo Clinic, a service that gives people medical information and helps set up doctor appointments, defines NCAH as “a collection of genetic conditions that limit your adrenal glands' ability to make certain vital hormones.” These vital hormones…

The contemplation of my childhood sex-education brought back many conflicting recollections. I was born in 1966, the year Masters and Johnson wrote their book “called Human Sexual Response, which summarized their research on individuals who readily experienced orgasms during sexual activity” (Matlin, 2012, p. 288). This book was almost as revolutionary as the two volume manuscript called the Kinsey Reports, written by Alfred Kinsey in 1948 and 1953, which attempted to explain the sexual behavior…