Religious studies

There are many issues of gender and sexuality in A Passage to India: the novel includes an “alleged sexual assault on a British woman by an Indian man” (Childs 1999: 348), and the intimate, homoerotic, relationship between Fielding and Aziz, plays an important part. As Childs states, the novel analyses issues of control and resistance in terms of gender, race and sex (Childs 1999: 348.). Colonisation has, as mentioned above, been described as an example of the survival of the fittest, where…

While Abbott’s, “Flatland” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” both illustrate critiques towards gender roles, such as women being treated unfairly, and man’s role being superior to women, these authors reveal numerous approaches and techniques toward the narratives’ critiques. Due to the methods and techniques to critique gender roles throughout these two texts, it supports the authors main theme of a typical gender role during the Victorian period. Additionally, Rosemary…

The Hound of the Baskervilles Book vs. Movie In Victorian England lies one of the greatest authors in the mystery genre, the father of the detective story, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of his best works, was written in 1902. It is in the perspective of Dr. Watson, who is working along with Mr. Sherlock Holmes to try and solve the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. However, in 2002, one hundred years later, David Atwood directed a…

For all that, feminist theorists are more interested in theorizing than in tensions evoked by the body. Gender is done or constructed by the person and others in his society. Contrary to this established idea, Judith Butler, in her book Undoing Gender, sees that gender can be done by resisting and escaping from the clutches of the social norm through which gender is recognized. She argues: “I may feel that without some recognizability I cannot live. But I may also feel that…

Gender representation in film is a reflection on gender roles and ideas in society, and with every change and constant in these socially constructed differences it is subsequently seen in film. By looking through the sociological perspective the contrasts in the films beauty and the beast (1959) and Maleficent (2014) can be understood by looking at events in society and the creators of Disney films in addition with applying symbolic interactionism and sociological concepts and theories from…

For example, when power is captured at the micro-level of society, this captures how power in institutional and cultural practices produce individual domination (Sawicki, 1991, p. 22). Although Foucault has been extensively criticised for making few references to women and to the issue of gender in his work, Foucault’s focus on the relations between power, the body and sexuality have made a significant contribution to a feminist critique of essentialism (Diamond & Quinby, 1988, p. 167). However,…

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson the author of “Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept,” examines the concept ‘misfit’ through a feminist materialist perspective. She see’s it as something that emulates the shift from a more deviating analysis on disability, towards a material meaning using the relation between a body and its outer surroundings. The argument being made is that through observing lived experiences of disability located in a place and time, while simultaneously viewing…

Introduction Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory talks about how organizations can achieve high levels of communication in multi-cultural situations. His concept narrows mainly on the interrelation existing between personal relationships, culture, and values. Hofstede approach used the factor analysis approach which looked into organizational culture and then placed it in culture and relationships and human values at the center. There are six key parts in the six dimension approach; cross…

CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Change must always be embraced by the top brass, in order to be wholeheartedly accepted and adopted by the lower echelon of the company. Moving forward, we believe that Kurt Lewin’s model of change management may be very relevant in addressing the cultural and leadership challenges at Ford, Toyota, and VW: In our analysis, this model is best exemplified by the following observations from the three manufacturers: • Employees at Ford were not ready for the changes proposed…

faced by a baby is their home and the people in the home. Parents are often the most significate one that affect the children as children learn sex-typed behaviors by recognizing with the parents of the same sex (Suar and Gochhayat, 2014). In many studies, we found that parents always have different attitude towards sons and daughters (Howell-Martinez, 1982). As mentioned before, parents will provide different toys, clothes and cartoons to boys and girls. More than that, parents may give…