Gender Relations
Essays

EXAMINATION OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND THEIR AFFECT ON WOMEN'S ROLES FOR KOREAN AND JAPANESE FEMALE STUDENTS

The original Star Trek series contains a surprising amount of social commentary. The multiracial, multiethnic makeup of Starfleet itself is testimony to Gene Roddenberry's optimistic conception of the future of race (or…

This paper examines the notion that there is still a heavily patriarchal society alive and well and looks at all the different ways that form of patriarchy manifests itself. The paper also explores the various ways that genders are impacted by expectations and other such constructs of society, and how unnatural many of them are, particularly the motherhood myth.

Nietzsche's Woman is by turns simply a reflection of common attitudes of the time, although he occasionally sees her in a more sympathetic view. In a modern light, the understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy has often…

Sandra Cisneros and the Cultural Construction of Latin-American Womanhood

From a feminist perspective, the foundations of contemporary psychology and therapy are a scandal. The origins of the contemporary therapeutic relationship are based on Freud's "talking cure" for "hysteria" -- and it is…

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Gills, Dong-Sook. (2002, May). "Globalization of Production and Women in Asia."

This paper examines the impact of World War Two on gender roles in Germany during and after the war. The paper focuses on three separate areas: ideology, egalitarianism, and trauma. The first is exemplified by Nazi ideas about gender, and offers primary source citations from Alfred Rosenberg and Leni Riefenstahl. The second is examined through the inclusion of women in the German war effort, as a means of examining how 70 years later Germany could produce Angela Merkel. The issue of trauma is covered by considering the mass-rapes that occurred on the German eastern front at the war's end--with an estimated 2 million victims--and examining the effects through a consideration of the East German intellectual Christa Wolf (who was 16 years old in 1945).

Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, and then was jailed as a Chinese dissident who made what he called his "final statement" before beginning his jail term.