Gender Relations
Essays

Horses have been an important and influential part of North American and European history. In his book, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, Alfred W. Crosby argues that horses helped to bring…

Until the 1970s and 1980s, women were largely ignored by policy makers on the national and internal levels, while neoclassical economic models assumed that the aggregate income of households would be shared equally…

Scribes in Mesopotamia have an obligation to record essential facts, to leave in writing a legacy by which posterity will remember and respect the culture. The political organization, economic and trade system, rules,…

Matthew Gutmann is an anthropologist who writes books turning his experiences and knowledge into phrases that teach a lesson that cannot be ignored. As a Professor of Anthropology at Brown University he is familiar with…

Marriage is a sanctioned union between people that establishes certain rights and obligations between those people, their children, and their relatives (Ember & Ember, 2010). These rights and obligations may include…

Spike Lee demonstrates his filmmaking prowess in his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. As with most of Lee's work, race relations are central to the story. With Do the Right Thing, Lee presents a bleak view of the nature…

Women have contributed to the history of the world from the beginning of time. Their stories are found in legends, myths, and history books. Queens, martyrs, saints, and female warriors, usually referred to as Amazon…

This is a three page paper about women in the Mediterranean or gender in the Mediterranean. In practice, the paper is a book review about Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed. It incorporates two book reviews of Ahmed's book as well as two articles that are not about Ahmed's book but which are about gender and Islam. All this is synthesized in a three-page essay.

This paper examines symbolism and gender politics in Vera Chytilova's 1966 film Daisies. The paper situates Chytilova's film in the political and social situation of Czechoslovakia in 1966--a country that had ostensibly emerged from Roman Catholicism into Soviet-style Communist modernity. This particular social context informs the gender politics of the film, and the paper investigates some aspects of Chytilova's gender politics with reference to the larger historical context of the work.

In tracing the historical etymology of the word "monster," the Oxford English Dictionary offers a primary definition of something to be stared at or marveled over (from the same root as "demonstrate") but notes the…