Women's studies

sexual harassment toward female military personnel. Do to the underreporting of sexual assault, and harassment the exact number of victim is unknown. As Bostock et al. (2007) noted in a research on sexual assault, a survey conducted by the National Women’s Study (NWS) over the phone with approximately 4,008 participants found that 13% of women in the United States have been raped, with about 6 out of 10 being raped…

roles are detrimental towards Western women’s movement towards equality within both the public/private sphere. Chapter 1 discusses biology and differentiation of sex through hormones, chromosomes, genes and reproductive organs[23]. Oakley states the belief of emotional instability in women as the result of hormones, lacks…

our gendered identity, our politics, and our choices” (Anderson, 105). A feminist approach to biblical studies can help reconstruct women’s identities in the text and see how the identity of the reader is affected by the way women are portrayed. Analyzing the ways in which women are excluded from the text and identifying the construction of gender are two methods of conducting biblical studies from the feminist perspective. These methods of analysis allow readers to see the social implications…

underestimated and relatively invisible in the economy. Thus, Monk and Hanson (1982) as a group of feminist geographers started to investigate towards not just men’s but women’s participation in the…

By taking women’s studies 101, my diversity requirement for the Community College of Baltimore County, or CCBC, will be fulfilled. In addition to fulfilling a requirement, I am taking this course because learning about different perspectives has the ability to enhance cultural enrichment, augment creativity, and cultivate diversity throughout multiple aspects of life. When studying various viewpoints it is natural to have fears about how new ideas may conflict with your beliefs, values, or…

Question 3. Why is the concept of “work” necessary for us to understand gender relations in cultural context? How does work relate to gender roles and attitudes? Understanding the concept of “work”, gives an idea about how the responsibilities, the control over the sources and the power are distributed between the genders, and how the arrangements such as who works for the survival of the families, who cares for the children, are made. The work is related to and may determine the family…

I came to the conclusion that Women’s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings by Janet Lee and Susan M. Shaw is my strongest source to support my thesis- the history of gender inequality in America and the analysis of how factors such as ideology, ethnicity, race and sexual orientation have effected the process of closing the gender gap. The over all problem Lee and Shaw are trying to address in their writing is what women’s gender studies is by examining historical and…

endorsement in elementary-school-aged children. Sex Roles, 67(7/8), 422-434. doi: 10.1007/s11199-012-0184-9 Patterson (2012) explores children’s self-perception of normal gender behavior and how that manifests in interactions with others. Many studies of children have shown that low self-perceived gender typicality is associated with less gender stereotype endorsement (Patterson, 2012). This can have many positive outcomes for children as they mature: less stress when viewing themselves as…

By engaging with the historical knowledge of such disempowered women, Spivak expands the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in…

is almost exclusively associated with South Asian culture in both popular and scholarly discourse. Studies in this area demonstrated that, in South Asia, machismo represents “four images of the dominant idea of manhood in the South Asian society. These images…