Essays on Gender

In this painting, the author clearly illustrates the gender roles of the time. We can see that men are strong, muscular and have an heroic posture. And on the other side of the picture we see the women, which seem fragile, emotional and mellow. Moreover,...

In 1952, Lovable, a lingerie brand said, “A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a ten”. We are in 2018, years have passed, and a lot of things have changed. Women can be independent, go to the university, work, decide about...

An issue, which has long been swept under the carpet is gender biasedness in the early childhood setting. In a multicultural society like the Australian, gender is a topic of high sensitivity and complexity. This may be the reason why, but still not an excuse,...

Dattani’s plays, as we can see, are set in the context of the family. For the upper middle class, the family is the most important institution and the primary concern is maintaining this family and the many relationships within it. The family as an institution...

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s, “The Culture Industry; Enlightenment as Mass Deception, ” indicates that forms of popular culture and media are “geared to the larger demands of the capitalist economy” while Walter Benjamin’s, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, ”...

The depression-era in Toronto reflected a labour market that was “variegated and uneven” (Srigley, 2005, p. 104). This was challenging to a wide cross-section of individuals seeking employment, and this labour market was particularly difficult for women. Srigley describes 1930’s Toronto as a “depressed city”...

Early Latin America is a rich and complex social, political, financial, and social condition having an unmistakably Western (European) center always affected by those powers natural inside a pioneer framework. Out of a mercantilist filled drive for riches and influence emerged another culture ruled by...