Sean de Lacy Professor Dinolfo May 3, 2001 Hamlet once stated, “Frailty, thy name is woman”(qtd. in Starr 225). An idea that women are weak is not a new idea to society; it is one that has been examined and documented by sociologist all over the world. Sociologists have studied the idea that men control society and women are submissive to men. This form of social organization in which males dominate females is known as a patriarchy (…showed first 75 words of 1514 total…

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