Female servants were generally considered sexually available to their employers even if the latter did not prostitute them to others. The records of ex officio prosecutions in any late medieval church court reveal frequent accusations of men having sex with their female servants. In many cases, of c... ->
Limitations Classroom learning and motivation are inherently embedded in a social context. Classrooms are composed of a teacher and individual students who are likely to be diverse in many ways (e.g., ethnicity, gender, ability, SES, skills of self-regulation, goals, interests, and special needs). I... ->
Women who were actually what we would call prostitutes, engaged in sex for money (and this can often only be determined when they were working in the officially sanctioned brothels that existed in many parts of Europe) tended, as one would expect, to come from groups of low social status. (Walkowitz... ->
The urban regulation of prostitution supports both the idea of differing treatment of social groups and the idea of a universalizing discourse on feminine sexuality. The regulation affected poorer women most directly, but by applying one standard of behavior to women generally, towns threatened any ... ->
Key segments of the corporate sector, conservative interest groups, the National Governors Association (NGA), and the senior Bush administration drew both on the imagery of the age of information, and the problems inherent in a failing national school system to establish a major national policy init... ->
This paper deals with the way a male-dominated society understood women’s sexuality in the Middle Ages. It is likely that women of different social statuses entered into relationships differently. Certainly working women had different choices about refusing marriage—a “lesbianlike” behav... ->
Louis May Alcott plays with the social construction of gender and sexual attraction in her story by using the first-person narrative of an English gentleman and his incorrect perceptions and assumptions of what constitutes a lady. On a trip to see his dying sister, George Vane shares his train cabin... ->
To continue, Wharton clearly shows that patriarchal attitudes are evident in males’ socially accepted violence against women. The father, brother, and, later, the partner exert violence over women as a means of socialization and control. In many instances, a woman may not be expected to defend... ->
