Browsing by Subject "gender roles"
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(2019-05-29)Machismo is a commonly practiced ideology within the borderland communities of Texas. Attached to this practice are dominating performatives that oppress Latinas and Latinos. Such practices cause the LatinX community to ...
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The Witcher series, by Andrzej Sapkowski, has recently become an international phenomenon. On top of its international pop-cultural success, one of the most interesting aspects about the series is the political landscape ...
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(1986)This study assessed the relationship among men's social skill, attitudes towards women, and levels of verbal and physical sexual coercion. Levels of coercion may be viewed as a continuum with voluntary sex on one end and ...
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(1997)Always the Aunt Jemima. Always the submissive servant and comforting mammy. At least these are the portrayals of African-American women that the media often glorify. As society's primary informant, the media, especially ...
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(1991)Women lack freedom. They lack the freedom to be their individual selves, since society and tradition dictate their obligation and obedience first to their parents, and then to their husbands. Women have no long-standing ...
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(1998)In recent research, validity of Big Five personality measures has been questioned. Specifically, the question of social comparison targets needs research. When persons evaluate themselves on personality dimensions, implicit ...
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(1986)Women go through a complicated process when making their career decisions. The central issue of this research is to investigate some potentially powerful factors that might differentiate women who have chosen non-traditional ...
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(1998)A meta-analysis was conducted across twenty-seven studies using the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2; Martens, Vealey, and Burton, 1990) administered to participants in both aerobic and anaerobic sports. The ...
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(1998)Two of the most pressing problems facing today's rapidly growing population of refugees are dealing with the consequences of their past traumatic experiences (PTSD symptomology) and adjusting to a new culture (acculturation). ...
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(1983)Eighteenth-century histories, essays, criticism, and poetry suggest that certain basic attitudes toward women prevailed. have categorized and described three of those attitudes: 1. Women are merely "fair nymphs" (the ...
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(1995)Film and literature provide a vehicle for the exploration of the issues facing women during the Occupation. Many of the ambiguities of the period are personified through female characters, characters that simultaneously ...
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(1998)The following paper is an analysis of the ways in which Coventry Patmore's image of female perfection, the Angel in the House, and the ideals which it embodies have affected literary works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century ...
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(1983)This study investigated men's attitudes toward intelligent vs. unintelligent women and women who do vs. do not initiate dates. Subjects were 209 male introductory psychology students. Each viewed one of four videotapes ...
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(1986)There is a common myth that many women follow a traditional sexual script in which they say no to sex even when they mean yes. According to this myth, women offer token resistance to sex in order not to appear promiscuous. ...
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(1995)A study was done exploring whether women are treated differently than men during their architectural education. Thirty male and female 4th-year environmental design undergraduate students of Texas A&M University were given ...
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(1979)William Styron, author of four novels—Lie Down in Darkness (1951), The Long March (1952), Set This House on Fire (1960), and The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)—uses Freudian psychology in his works. His female characters ...
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(1984)The present study examined the social comparison and self-reward patterns of seventy-three fifth grade male and female children. Motivation was assessed using the Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Orientation scale and perceived ...
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(1995)In the last ten years, much attention has been focused on the issue of sexual harassment. During the mid-1980s, the Supreme Court ruled on the issue for the first time, and discussion about the ruling and sexual harassment ...
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(1996)How are males and females portrayed in full-length animated features? This research analyzes gender portrayal in five Disney films released in the 1990s: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Snow White and ...