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Humans are story tellers by our very nature. Since we sat in caves carving stone, we’ve entertained ourselves with stories about events, wars, romances, and most importantly, ourselves. One concept that has withstood the test of time is that of self identity. Who are we, and what does it mean to be “I”?  This question…

Pakistan has long been the subject of much controversy in the realm of human rights and progressive social movements since its formation as an Islamic Republic following a violent colonial past, which ended in the Partition of India in 1947. Therefore, when the Pakistani government legalized a “third gender” category on ID cards and passports…

The civil rights event that has caught my attention is LGBTQ bathroom conflict that is the conflict between protecting the civil rights of the LGBTQ community. The problem that is being addressed is that one who is transgender identifies themselves as a different sex than the one that was given at birth. They feel as…

The purpose of this project is to give transgender people an opportunity to identify as they please, especially when it comes to changing their names from what was given to them at birth. I am proposing this because a name is part of every person’s identity and not allowing for a specific person to easily…

Before analyzing how each stratifier of our thesis affects political view, we have to recognize how they influence one another. As gender cannot be affected by class, I will analyze how gender affects the income and social class of a person. Because social class is defined within a family unit, the lump sum of a…

For as long as gender has been a thing, it has been given a major importance over character, but the truth is that humans should look at each other as just the humans they are. The novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan takes as major influence from the roles of women in society as…

Gender refers to the roles and responsibilities assigned to men and women by society based on biological differences of being either male or female. According to Cynthia Fuchs Epstein categorisation based on sex is the most basic social divide and organisational basis of many institutions across the world. This gender divide is the maintainer of…

Through childhood and her adult life Eve had experienced a lot. At a very young age she was raped and abused by her father from the age 5-10, so she grew up angry, sad etc. Years later Eve attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where she became known as a militant feminist. After graduating she was…

Depicts the girlhood and womanhood of a non-conventional woman, Stephen Gordon, who after assuming her natural inversion during her adolescence, fights to find a place in the world. After fulfilling partially her aspirations by serving in I World War as an ambulance driver, she falls in love with Mary, another ambulance driver, and for a…

When John Steinbeck mocks feminism he is trying to show how woman in the story are dominated by a male or by a male society in general. The work is introduced by finding the fault against all women. In the times when John Steinbeck wrote the story, The Chrysanthemums, women were seen as inferior. Many…