This two-part exploratory study utilized a social cognitive theory framework in documenting gender portrayals in teen movies and investigating the influence of exposure to these images on gender-based beließ about friendships, social aggression, and roles of women in society. First, a content analysis of gender portrayals in teen movies was conducted, revealing that female characters are more l...

Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

The 150 top-selling video games sold in the U.S. across nine platforms were content analyzed to study representations of female bodies. All human females in the games were captured via screenshot and body parts measured. These measurements were then compared to actual anthropometric data drawn from a representative sample of 3,000 American women. The results show that female video game characte...

Although Doris Lessing's “The Golden Notebook” is regarded as a feminist novel by many scholars, it also mostly criticised due to the overt male domination upon various female characters. Moving away from purpose focusing on experiences and struggles of these different women characters, Lessing emphasises significance peeling off all socially constructed labels recognising distinctive true iden...

An analysis of six characters from a Chinese television drama reveals socially meaningful patterns of variation in rhythm and final lengthening. Two measures of rhythm, the syllabic PVI and Varco∆S, reveal the three female characters to be more “stress-timed” than the three male characters; smoothing splines analysis, meanwhile, shows that the women do more lengthening of utterance-final syllab...

Empirical tests described in this article support hypotheses derived from evolutionary theory on the perceptions of literary characters. The proper and dark heroes in British Romantic literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries respectively represent long-term and short-term mating strategies. Recent studies indicate that for long-term relationships, women seek partners wit...

"When they set Shakespeare’s Richard III into one night and eliminate most of the male characters, Italian actor playwright Carmelo Bene’s or Terrible Night a Man War (1977) Flemish dramatist Peter Verhelst’s (2004) turn Richard’s story an intimate, private tragedy. This article argues that, influenced by ideas concepts developed theorists historical avant-gardes, both practitioners condense, f...

Sangam literature is the epitome of Tamil literature. It has internal and external distinctions. Among them, Pulavar’s called blissful life one same person who united by similar love as Agam. The characters in this are Characters. He their speeches statements. Characters that make up claim categorized Kalavu Karppu. Tolkappiyam (Tol. 1445 - 1452) states these include ten listened to claims Hero...

Increasingly, health communication practitioners are exploring the use of narrative storytelling to convey health information. For this study, a narrative film was produced to provide information about the human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer prevention. The storyline centered on Lupita, a young woman recently diagnosed with HPV who informs her family about HPV and the availability of...

In Malaysia, literary texts produced in English remain a challenging terrain, especially among Malay writers who must cautiously negotiate between their identity, religion, and cultural globalization. For instance, Che Husna Azhari’s works, her notable short story Mariah, have received tremendous scholarly attention recently. Mariah has been criticized from several viewpoints, such as the playw...