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- 101: Women As News Anchors
- ... news. The textbook, Gender, Race and Class in Media had a few chapters relevant to my paper. Larry Gross wrote a chapter titled, "Out of the Mainstream: Sexual Minorities and Mass Media." He discussed various stereotypes in our society that lead to stereotypes in all areas of our lives. I found some of my sources from Oasis, and also used a couple of magazine articles that were relevant to the subject. I focused on the questions that I ...
- 102: A Review of "The Outsiders Club" Screened on BBC 2 in October 96
- ... the main themes that were aired. SEXUALITY AND DISABILITY Morris (1989) writes "once we first become disabled we are usually denied any form of sexual identity." It is certainly true that among the many negative stereotypes of disability some of the most commonly held views are that disabled people are non-sexual, or sometimes asexual beings, or that they are likely to be attracted only to each other. THE OUTSIDERS CLUB ... relationships. I do however consider that the Outsiders Club does not meet the needs of disabled women, and their vulnerability is not fully understood by the club's organisers. References Longmore, P. K. (1987). "Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures." . Oliver, M. (1996). Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice. London, Macmillan. Rae, A. (1984). Refusing to be the Outsiders. Spare Rib 145 . p. 18-20. Shakespeare ...
- 103: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... 132. 10. Kenneth G. Butler, "Footbinding, Exploitation and Wrongfulness: A Non- Marxist Conception", Diogenes (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies), Fall 1985, Vol. 13 1: 58. 11. Barbara Garlick, Suzanne Dixon and Pauline Allen, Stereotypes of Women in Power (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992) 122. 12. Davin 28. 13. Howard S. Levy, The Lotus Lovers: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Footbinding in China (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus ... Davin, Delia. "The Custom of the Country". Times Literary Supplement. April 24, 1992. p.28. Feng, Jicai. The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994). Garlick, Barbara, Suzanne Dixon and Pauline Allen. Stereotypes of Women in Power (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992). Goody, Jack. The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Jaschok, Maria. Concubines and Bondservants (London: Oxford University Press, 1988). Ko, Dorothy ...
- 104: Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
- ... as "holding tank" and "scared". Also by impersonal words, such as "progeny". Most Canadians do not, as this says, envy the Americans and think of America as a "candy store". Richler is attacking some typical stereotypes of Canada and Canadians by exemplifying them. Moses, who is Richler's voice in the novel, exhibits many autobiographical characteristics: English speaking resident of Montreal, raised on Jean Mance street. He has a strong religious ... Canadian culture. The Gursky family and their diverse interests, life-styles and undertakings allows Richlers readers to grasp many parts of Canada in many different time frames. This in turn allows him to satirize the stereotypes of Canada, its people and their culture. Adding to idea of corruption, which enhances this satire, are the filial relationships occurring in this novel. The fact that all these relationships are unsuccessful and non-cordial ...
- 105: Animal Farm 7
- ... Storytellers have used beast fables since the story was invented. Something that has remained popular for so long must be somewhat effective. The representation of people as animals reduces their characters to the most basic stereotypes. The reader doesn t have to waste time in trying to figure out the character s personalities. In short, their inside is represented on the outside by their own physical being. One of the first and most obvious of Orwell s stereotypes is exemplified by the pigs. They represent the government officials and political figures. A great number of people would find that a quite suitable representation. Politicians have always been reputable as dirty, dishonest, and simply ...
- 106: Affirmative Action: Public OPinion vs. Policy
- ... white majority. Sniderman and Piazza says that the opposition of egalitarian polices like affirmative action lead to a negative stereotyping of minorities. Among the randomly selected sample, one-half of them were asked about black stereotypes— they are irresponsible, they are lazy, they are arrogant. These questions were the immediately followed by a single question about affirmative action in employment. The other half of the sample was asked the same question about blacks, but they were immediately preceded by the question about affirmative action in employment. The data show significantly higher percentages of negative stereotypes about blacks for the sample getting the affirmative action questions (Sniderman and Piazza 1993, 97-104). Sniderman and Piazza (1993, 109) concluded that "affirmative action is so intensely disliked that it has led some whites ...
- 107: Stereotyping Lord Of The Flies
- ... of the Flies and plays such as Romeo and Juliet. Stereotyping leaves a great repercussion on individuals as well as on society. Stereotyping is when we separate ourselves from others who are different from us. Stereotypes are impressions of entire groups of people. They are more powerful and dangerous than individual impressions because they involve the false assumption that all members of a group share the same characteristics. When you take ... do our hair, the people we hang out with, this all adds to our uniqueness. This diverseness should not be discriminating towards anyone. The way we do in school also adds to the list of stereotypes. Some kids feel they have to do poorly in order to avoid names such as "brain", "browner", or something that can be as complimenting as smart or intelligent. On the other hand, some kids would ...
- 108: Lacan
- ... do and what does she desire they have two choices. They can be the phallus for the man become what man desires. They can play a role try to live up to one of the stereotypes of femininity that men create and find desirable. This is how women try to play the game. By actually being what she is not. Being that essence that society defines as being desirable to men ... the anxiety that maybe being a man isn t enough. More simply men reinforce their masculinity by fixing women in place by giving them identities by imposing upon them sexiness and all of the other stereotypes men impose on women. Women is lack in a masculine world. The point is to cover that lack by a masquerade. To talk about the way women pretend to be the phallus to be what ...
- 109: America and Affirmative Action
- ... being in question and stigmatized in this country. When racial categories were created, simply being labeled a minority carried with it quite a slanderous stigma. Even to this day Black Americans combat lingering racism an stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency toward violence, sexual prowess, etc.... The idea that affirmative action policies introduce stigmas that did not already exist into the life of minorities seems nonsensical. To those who claim that this ... minority will always doubt that he or she deserves to be there, I propose that affirmative action will only accomplish the continued exclusion of Black Americans from participation within American society and thus further ingrain stereotypes and stigmas. Another reason that the stigma critique of affirmative action confuses me, is because the discussion is always limited to race and gender based affirmative action policies. Where is the discussion about athletes and ...
- 110: The Need For Affirmative Action
- ... how can we legitimately claim that the playing field is level? In fact not using affirmative action will only accomplish the continued exclusion of Black Americans from participation within American society and thus further ingrain stereotypes Another reason that affirmative action confuses me, is because the discussion is always limited to race and gender based affirmative action policies. What about year after year the athletes that are admitted to all the ... hard have the same requirements as the whites but don't get the job because we are not white. You and I both know that to this day Black Americans feel the lingering racism and stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency towards violence, sexual prowess, and so on. Maybe when all of this unnecessary and pointless stereotyping is gone we can do away with affirmative action but until then it must continue ...
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