Essays on Gender Diversity

Gender differences or similarities are not openly discussed throughout the series. Hogwarts is a mixed school were everything seems to be divided equally, everyone takes the same classes, they wear uniforms, play Quidditch in mixed teams, have mixed staff. Hogwarts is shown to be non-sexist because it shows both great witches and wizards working in...

“War? Don’t speak to me of war! My daily life is battlefield enough.” [1: quote from Cynthia Cockburn 2004, 43] Feminist theorisation on war, militarisation and peace has foregrounded a “continuum of violence” in women’s lives.[footnoteRef:2] Rejecting simplified binaries of war and peace, prewar and postwar, feminist scholarship argues that women continue to experience violence...

Over decades ago, many empires were built upon a patriarchal system, in which men have control of power over women. Under the patriarchal society, women had no voice and defined as weaker and inferior (….). Even though Shakespeare lived under the male-dominated society, his depiction of women was not influenced by its standard. He portrayed...

Women, be warned: Men can despise you and simultaneously lose their minds over you. In Antony and Cleopatra (1623), Shakespeare criticizes the role of women in society through the lens of Cleopatra, who is a woman fully aware of her social status as both weak and powerful. Weak in how she is objectified as the...

Abstract Gender differences in health have always been an interesting topic of discussion. Women have always outlived men, but complained of more pain. Throughout many studies, we see that many females have reported more limitations in healthcare and physically diminished faster than men (Murtagh and Hubert, 2004). These differences can additionally be seen in older...

The controversies over the uniqueness, role, position, and rights of the woman over the years has often been centered around vague, conflicting and evasive perspectives of men and the society. Can the world’s negative perceptions of the woman be changed? Can they be identified as different but not inferior nor superior? Women have not been...

During WWII, the US government employed women in factories to support the wartime economy, including jobs that were typically performed by men during peace times. The government then released a series of posters to celebrate women’s contribution to the war. This poster, “Victory Builders”, was published first in New York City in May 1944 upon...

Explore the potential subversion and challenging of gender norms in at least two films from the module. Are these films and character types repeating old patterns or are they breaking out of traditional frameworks? Precisely, how does this work in the films in question? After watching the two films I will discuss in this essay,...

Discussion My question for my extended project qualification is “Does J.K Rowling support of discourage gender stereotypes and typical gender roles?”. To begin with I thought that this question would be quite one sided and that I would struggle to find research that opposed my point of view. However this wasn’t the case. When I...

In this essay, I will be discussing the different challenges women faced to participate in the rock industry because of their gender and how it affected them. It is an industry that has always been seen as being male dominated which many, now famous female rock musicians, have experienced on their ladder to fame and...