Sex ratio

Calvin Klein is a brand known for their sexually provocative jean and undergarment advertisements (Haig, 2011). “The first ad to violate the taboo against depicting buttocks and penises in mainstream ads was Calvin Klein’s 1983 ad for underwear, in which the model’s penis outline was visible.” (Lambiase & Reichert, 2002, p. 224). While Klein’s ad for Euphoria perfume is not as sexually explicit, visually as their 1983 underwear ad, it does have a sexual undertone. The advertisement, featured in…

Issues of gender is very important to adolescent literature. Gender is the first thing people generally look for when reading a book. Readers look for a character that they can associate with, or imitate. When reading adolescent literature, knowing the gender of the characters in the story, gives readers assumptions about the characters themselves without even knowing their background. Even if the author decided not to formally establish or intentionally state the gender of their characters, the…

In the early seventeenth century, and throughout the course of Shakespeare’s career, who a woman was revolved around a man. A woman could assume one of three roles: virgin, mother, or widow. Women were expected to be pure for their husbands, bare his children, and otherwise be absorbed by him. If perchance she did outlive her husband, her respect would die with him while also granting her brief financial freedom, however subjecting her to social rejection. This societal development was linked to…

1 The Songye Tribe & the Kifwebe Mask By Whitney Chester Morgan State University Kifwebe Mask 2 The people of the Songye tribe can be traced back to the 16th century. Their history is closely related to the Luba with who they are related to by common ancestry. People of the Songye tribe are well known for their unique masks that they wore which were referred to by the term kifwebe. This mask was unique because it stood out and was a prominent part of the Songye…

“Will Women Still Need Me?” by Barbara Ehrenreich in the “The Writer 's Presence A Pool of Readings Eight Edition” page five hundred ninety eight. This is an argumentative writing that author claimed that is an issue in between both sexes; man and woman. This topic immediately made me pondering for questions like: Is that anything wrong with the relationship in the current society? Is author has a personal relationship or marriage issue, therefore she questioned about the need of man in woman’s…

Causes to barriers in sexual communication can be attributed by negative beliefs about sex. Negative beliefs about sex stem from the gender socialization, media and religion. The messages delivered to individuals about sex is how they form their personal beliefs and therefore, how they communicate about sex with others. Women and men are socialized differently and “past research often explains gender difference in sexual behavior according to differences in social norms” (Maas et al., 2015, p.…

this decision as it is much harder for a female to live on the streets. Not to mention that there are so many more shelters and programs to help homeless women get off the streets than there are for homeless men. Yet I rather feel that no matter my sex, gender, or the way in which I express it, I would have just made the best of this horrible…

The portrayal of women in a newsroom is interesting to watch in movies about journalism. Often times, women are shown as minor roles throughout the movies. If a woman is put into the movie as a main character she is often doing something that hurts her reputation. A man could also be shown as superior to a woman. This creates interesting viewpoints of shows as the directors of movies show a strong male lead. Because this scenario is true in so many movies about women journalists it could hurt…

They mostly talk about men being obsessed with the female body and sex. Most popular music portrays that men only want women for sex and don’t look at them as partner in life or someone to have a relationship with, rather something for their personal enjoyment and not a human being with needs and wants. It also frequently portrays that women have accepted this and want to please their man and take pride in being an object for sex. It’s horrible, but none the less what our society knows to be…

This essay will be analyzing the issue and the on going controversy surrounding the topic of, women in the music industry and how they are objectified and overtly sexualized to help sell records or to make music videos more attractive to mass audiences. The essay will look at real life textual examples from both the past and present, of how women are being presented in the music industry, in both positive and negative lights, examining the similarities and the differences of different periods of…