Composition studies

Cohabitation, I feel I have a better understanding of gender and cohabitation. The main goal of this article was to explore the possibility of gendered meanings and motivations behind cohabitation among young adults. The authors were motivated to study gender and cohabitation because all that they did know about meanings and motives to cohabit were drawn from quantitative analyses of surveys and with close-ended attitudinal questions. As stated in the article, the motivation for why young adults…

The most significant argument drawn from Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet is the harmful effects a binary view of topics like sexuality and gender could have. The most concerning aspect of the subject of binary viewership is that it applies to more subjects than what was previously listed. Society has an incredibly long history of categorization and lessening people to one of few groups, which only sets up barriers for those who do not fit into them. This process may have worked…

are all socially constructed within structures of power and privilege to benefit one group over another. The theory also argues that gender identities, differences and inequalities are socially constructed , and as it relates to gender and women studies, sex is biological, while gender is a social construction. Due to the fact that gender is constructed within a structure of power to favour men and masculinity, there exist many inequalities in society that effect women in many aspects of life.…

the purpose of this essay, it will take the meaning of ‘Euro-American’ humans) unconsciously tend to use while analysing the place of nature in the anthropological and social theory. There is no novelty in the subject, however the ethnographic case studies attempt to first understand if non-western society could provide us with new models for re-thinking nature-culture opposition, secondly if it could affect our ontological and cosmological traditional categories, and lastly to verify if the…

Carol Cohn and J. Ann Tickner both offer a feminist critique of the field of international relations. Cohn focuses specifically on the language associated with nuclear weaponry while Ticker contextualizes Cohn’s work to more broadly analyze the field; however, they would both agree that the field of international relations is dominated by a male perspective that largely ignores the female voice. For this paper, I argue that Joe Nye’s conception of liberal institutionalism manages to be more…

Wade and Ferree describe intersectionality as “ gender is not an isolated social fact about us, but instead intersects with our other identities” (2015: 84). Intersectionality, quite literally, observes the intersections within individuals’ identities; what people encounter is based upon their race, gender, sexual orientation, and more. On the other hand, Wade and Ferree define gender strategy as “finding a way of doing gender that works for us as unique individuals who are also shaped by other…

How can the nature of marriage and sexuality within the Dobe Ju/’hoansi and the Trobriand Islanders of these elements of their society help us to understand the worldview of these communities? The Trobriand Islanders are a stratified social structure which is divided into owners and workers. they believe in the idea of sorcery. When death occurs Tuma is a place where the spirits go and where babies come from. There are certain taboos and ideas that after death, no joyful activities can take…

A Critique of “What I Learned in the Locker Room” In this article from 2015 “What I Learned in the Locker Room” sports reporter Steve Almond of the New York Times argues that sports are a way we define the world, and that sports is the main influencer of being masculine. Almond also discusses conventional ways we see men such as athletic, aggressive, dominant and fearless. According to Almond, these are all key qualities of being a man in the sports world. He then moves on to his assumption…

AND DATA COLLECTION 3.0 Introduction The study methodology and procedures explains briefly the following components; research design, study area, target population, sampling techniques and sample size, methods of data collection and data analysis and the reasons that prompted to the choice of each component. 3.1 Type of study The study is comparative study which focuses on factors that causes gender in equality in labor market in Tanzania Study design A study design is the arrangement of…

Doina Musat English 254, sec: 003 12 October 2017 The Hound of the Baskervilles: Element of Surprise Arthur Conan Doyle is widely recognized as one of the most thrilling adventure novelists during the Victorian era. Through his use of linear writing style and various literary techniques, Doyle is able to captivate the world with his famous Sherlock Holmes novels. In one of Doyle’s novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, he is able to instill the sense of adventure for the reader to follow…