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The Presentation Of Gender-Based Sexuality Scripts In Sex Education Films, Patricia Anne Drew
The Presentation Of Gender-Based Sexuality Scripts In Sex Education Films, Patricia Anne Drew
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The manifest purpose of sex education films is to transmit factual information about sexuality to schoolchildren. However, films additionally contain covert messages informing students of proper and improper sexual roles. Films can reinforce patriarchal gender-differentiation within the sexual realm or, alternately, films can promote commensurate, non-patriarchal gender scripts for sexuality. This paper researches the ideological gender messages set within and transmitted by sex education films. Although sex education films represent only a small part of the sexual culture, the trends revealed in the films may indicate general parameters of US sexual culture.
The data set for this content analysis consisted …
Just For Money? : An Exploratory Study Into The Motivations Of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance
Just For Money? : An Exploratory Study Into The Motivations Of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance
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Women working as nude dancers have been depicted both in academia and popular literature either as victims of patriarchal exploitation and economic oppression, or as empowered women choosing the most profitable form of work out of the limited options provided for them. This study explores these opposing motivational factors for the entrance and continuance of nude dancing, integrating the theoretical framework of Sex Positive feminism with Strauss and Corbin's (1990) grounded theory approach. Sex Positive feminism asserts that sex work is neither oppressive nor exploitative but rather can be a consensual and legitimate avenue resulting in an increase in women's …