Can masculinity be applied to genders other than male? This is a question posed and answered in Judith Jack Halberstam’s Female Masculinity, published in 1998. In this book, Halberstam discusses the appearance and characteristics that are applied...

How do gender roles instilled by society impact those that are forced to abide by them? This is a question posed by many gender theorists, as our society tends to impose these roles strictly. According to this theory, these roles are damaging...

Throughout most of human history, it has been difficult or even impossible to change social classes. Those born into poverty tended to remain there as slaves or peasants, and wealth tended to remain concentrated in the hands of the hereditary...

The opera-box is an essential part of social life in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. There are scenes in operas of every city the characters go to, including in London, Brussels, and Paris. For an author that is obsessed with performance, it is...

Winston Churchill said that ‘the truth is incontrovertible’. This statement construes ‘truth’ as an absolute concept, where there is only one truth, and anything else is by definition a non-truth. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Thackeray’s ‘Going to...