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 ...

Perhaps no decade heralded the volume of historical change that the 1920s did. Women’s lives were dramatically affected by the world around them. In the aftermath of World War I, intolerance prevailed. In this atmosphere ...

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 ...

Two converging, multimethod experiments probed the hypothesis that group discussion of physical attractiveness would lead to reevaluation of initial judgments more consistent with group standards. In Study 1 participants ...

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 ...

This study examines gendered differences in perception of humor functions in 311 male and female college students. Subjects ratings on three different test instruments were obtained: Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...