Throughout history some women have engaged in sexual relationships with other women as well as desired other women. However, it has only been since the late nineteenth century that such women been categorized as a distinct type of person, "a lesbian", by virtue of their sexual int...

Throughout the play there are many references to the gender and sex roles of the characters. As described in the critical essay by Shirley Nelson Garner, the dominating male power and strange sex roles of the characters is fluent throughout the play. The ordering of the fairy, human, and natural wo...

"Sex Sells" There is a common phrase that goes "sex sells" which turns out to be very truthful. It seems like no other human act drives "buying behavior" as much ...

Homosexuality: Family and Friends Homosexuality is a part of our society and has been for a long time. Plato spoke of homosexuality in The Symposium: Those who are halves of a male whole pursue males, and being slices, so to speak of the male, love men throughout their boyhood, and take pleasure i...

The topic of gender is relevant to everyone. It is also a topic that evokes a strong emotional response. Gender is a social construct and few of us are aware of the system of rewards and punishments that have shaped our gender identity. For others who this system did not 'succeed' are...

A Feminist Voice Once upon a time, there was this book, and there was something I call my life. This book and my life are complicated and twisted-yet the struggles they share do have reason. The book I would like to share with you is inspiring, motivational, warm, sad and witty --this is the bib...

Introduction Death and desire are two of the most extreme feelings that can be felt by humans. Death and desire lie at the two opposite sides of emotions. Death, being the end of life, a feeling of fear and the final step, of going towards meeting the lord again. Whereas, desire is...

Many factors influence the works of artists. The time they are working in, the culture, and their own lives effect what they depict and how. Gender is no exception. Feminist Historians believe "that gender is an essential element in understanding the creation, content, and evaluation of art." (Ada...

The American Pie trilogy has become a huge success for teens as well as adults. The films all made a huge amount of revenue. Even though the major role of all American Pie films is sexual material, it sort of expands its horizon in the second and third films. Relationships, love and drama start to o...

Sexual identity can be described as the focal point of our sexual selves as human beings. Our sexual identity begins to develop at birth and continues to develop as we grow older. There are countless factors that can influence one's sexual identity, and these factors may lead up to the gradual for...

How Does Music Inform Our Notions of Gender? Music allows people to express their gender and sexuality in either an advert or a subtle way. The Spice Girls used the phrase 'Girl Power' which could not be less feminist in a 'We are Women, step aside men' way, 'boy Pow...

Ran Chen's A Private Life, is a monologue written in autobiographical format that reflects on the coming of womanhood in its female heroine from the time period of the mid 1970s to the mid-1990s. The novel explores the main character's individuality of existence, her desires and sexual ide...

Artemisia Gentilschi: Feminism in Italian Society Throughout the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Painting in the Baroque period evoked emotion by appealing to the senses in very dramatic ways. Artists often used religion or personal experiences and effectively translated these aspects into ...

Transvestitism In the last few decades, there has been a rapid change in social attitude towards so-called sexual problems. There has been a call for the freedom to live in the style of which one chooses, so long as no one else is harmed in the process. One area that appears little understood, ...

[...] a Devil on't the Woman damns the Poet. -- Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was not the first woman writer; neither was she the only woman writer of her day. But Aphra Behn holds the singular distinction of being the ...