Gender Relations
Essays

Same-Sex Marriage: A Matter of Equal Rights

Karl Marx and Max Weber were undoubtedly two of the most important writers in the evolution of social sciences, politics, economics and history of the last 150 years and set the course for new ways in which to analyze…

¶ … characteristic features of the Basseri of Iran. Its first part will identify and classify "pastoralism" as the Basseri culture's primary mode of subsistence. He second part will show that "tribal chiefship" is…

Moliere endows his character Arnolphe in "The School for Wives" with a chauvinism characteristic of many men in seventeenth century French society. No doubt, his intention is to lampoon this character, as the play's…

"There's been a lot of academic research suggesting that men think they know what they're doing, even when they really don't know what they're doing." -- John Ameriks

Throughout history, gender roles have played a vital part in the shaping of Western society. From the changeover of colonial belief systems to the industrial revolution in the 1920's to current trends, these gender…

Although the great civilizations of pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan borrowed from each other and came to share much in common, there is no more one East Asia than there is one Europe.

Dangerousness refers to the likelihood that a mentally ill person, or criminal will participate in an act that harms themselves or others. The prediction of the dangerousness of mentally ill patients is one of the key…

This study examines different types of knowledge and how women have affected progress in these domains through a critical review of the relevant literature, including open source media such as Wikipedia, but peer-reviewed and scholarly sources as well concerning H. T. Buckle's discourse from 1858 concerning the contributions of women to the progress of knowledge. A summary of the research and a synthesis of the findings are presented in the study's conclusion concerning the contributions of women to the progress of knowledge in the years since Buckle's original discourse.

That the prisons in the United States are bursting at the seams comes as no surprise, considering that more violent crimes occur here than any other industrialized country and incarceration has become the customary way…