Many people think that boys in our culture today are brought up to define their identities through heroic individualism and competition, particularly through separation from home, friends, and family in an outdoors world of work and doing. Girls, on the other hand, are brought up to define their id...

The central focus of this intriguing story is the development of an individual consciousness towards an apparent form of insanity and eventually into a state of total psychosis. The story begins as we encounter the thoughts and feelings of the main character; a woman who is seemingly ill and possib...

Video in the Home – A critical discussion of "Behind closed doors: video recorders in the home" pp327-336 Ann Gray (1987) Media studies a Reader This article outlines the role of gender in authority and use of home technology, specifically the home video recorder, or VCR. In ...

Women have always held power as a result of fertility. Often, society's patriarchal rules and structure struggle to take this power away from women. In A Handmaid's Tale, the elite in society recognize the power that fertile women hold and completely govern them in order to take this powe...

Many people think that boys in our culture today are brought up to define their identities through heroic individualism and competition, particularly through separation from home, friends, and family in an outdoors world of work and doing. Girls, on the other hand, are brought up to define their id...

Many people think that boys in our culture today are brought up to define their identities through heroic individualism and competition, particularly through separation from home, friends, and family in an outdoors world of work and doing. Girls, on the other hand, are brought up to define their id...

Virginia WoolfAs a woman writer during the Victorian Era in England, Virginia Woolf was oppressed by the patriarchal society where women's intellectuality was condescended without any question. In the excerpt taken from one of her writings, readers can clearly see her attitude towards the female rol...