Violence in Public Schools The recent violence on school grounds (including elementary, middle school and high school violence) has created a climate of fear in American public schools, and the literature presented in this review relates to that fear and to the difficulty schools face in determining what students might be capable of mass killings on campus. Television coverage of school shootings leave the impression that there is more violence on

Gender Equity in Education Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sports (Michael a. Messner) Chapters One, Two, Three & Five Women and men are clearly different, in ways far beyond mere physical composition, as Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus discusses in deep detail. But, the author (Messner, 2002) of Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sports also wonders: where children are from, how children "do gender," how the American Youth

Women and men are two parts of the human race. Men are important to society just as women are. However, because of the social structure of many cultures and society, men appear as the dominant, superior sex. This leads to the belief that men must control women, dominate them in order to be seen as 'real men'. Katz explore in his novel the need to remove such belief systems and

Gender When Unraveling Is the Best Approach Everything is connected. Pull one thread as gently as possible in any attempt to explain the fundamentals of any society and this is abundantly clear, for in trying to unravel any of the important concepts or practices upon which society and culture are built and one finds that everything else begins to unravel as well. While "unraveling" might initially seem to be something that one

Popular Culture and Gender Identification In the United States and throughout the world the popular culture has both reflected and created the identity of the individual and that larger population. One of the most important aspects of a person's identity is their gender. This is a socially constructed label that is applied to someone, most often based upon their physical sex. However, there are many cases wherein a person's gender identification

Berrington, E., Honkatukia, P. (2002). An Evil Monster and a Poor Thing: Female Violence in Media. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 3(1): 50-72. Berrington and Honkatukia examine patriarchal constructs of British news media using case of Rosemary West as an example and comparing by way of contrast to the Finnish reporting on Sanna Sillanpaa, another female "killer." The ways in which media representations of these two women differed