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    Femininity In The 1800s

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    Society should have been against the functions of femininity in the 1800s as well as the early 1900s because it cultivated the grounds for discrimination within society and had a negative effect on women’s health‚ behaviors‚ status‚ and rights. Regardless of a woman’s social class‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ level of education‚ or position of power‚ gender prevailed due to societal ties placed on gender. During this time‚ women had to meet society’s standards of being a woman while also portraying the

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    Femininity In Friends

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    For discussion section this week‚ I decided to complete assignment option A. I watched a an episode of the television series Friends. While watching there weren’t too many stereotypes shown‚ but I did notice a large general one about femininity by the end of the episode. In this episode‚ two of the female characters (Rachel and Phoebe) are taking a women’s self- defense class. When they tell one of their friends (Ross)‚ he tells them that they are not entirely in a state of total awareness‚ “Unagi

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    Femininity In Odysseus

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    Temptresses use their feminine charms to reveal Odysseus’s promiscuous acts as well as his hubris. Calypso‚ a temptress in the epic‚ is a nymph who is “imprisoned” on the secluded‚ beautiful island‚ Ogygia. In Book IV‚ Odysseus is washed ashore on Ogygia and is there for seven years‚ continuously being tempted by Calypso. “True enough‚/ Calypso the lustrous goddess tried to hold me back‚/ deep in her arching caverns‚ craving me for a husband”(Homer IX. 33-36). Calypso’s attempts to make Odysseus

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    Femininity In Hamlet

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    Shakespeare conveys women to be subjected by views of purity and dependency on men in order to reflect the continuous struggle women go through in order to be treated equally in our everyday society. After her husband dies‚ Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother‚ immediately marries her brother-in law‚ Claudius. Moving quickly on from man to man without much mourning for her dead husband‚ Gertrude is dependent on the men in her life and can only live her life through another. She never questions Claudius’s reason

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    Throughout history the denotations of masculinity and femininity have been much debated. The literary devices used in the historical drama “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe helps demonstrate how Okonkwo and traditional Umuofian culture define masculinity and femininity by providing insight through the eyes of someone who belongs to that specific culture. In their eyes‚ how they differentiate men and women is normal and the proper way to live. Even though we may find some of their ways absurd‚

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    Sandra‚ Lee Bartky “Femininity as Disciplinary Regime.” our society women are often pressured and conditioned to conform to traditional feminine standards. In the past fifty or so years women have begun to find modes of resistance against these cultural constraints. Bartky theorizes about the properly feminine subject by stating that it is to embody the proper feminine qualities of character and behaviors. According to Bartky the properly feminine woman must be sure to never appear sloppy or loose

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    English Comp. II 1 November 2011 Trifles Analysis Susan Glaspell wrote the play Trifles in 1916. The play/story emulates the author’s thoughts on discrepancies concerning preconceived notions of gender. According to Dictionary.com the exact definition of trifle is “Something of little importance or value”. The title of the play suggests that the concerns of women are too often considered minute and negligible affairs‚ irrelevant to a male dominant society. The issue in question is the circumstantial

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    Femininity In Hamlet

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    When reading the play Hamlet‚ it sometimes seems that everything occurs because of a woman.  However‚ there is a problem with that assumption: the women are a little too passive to cause anything.  Certainly‚ the men’s feelings towards the women shape the events of the play‚ but that’s not exactly because of the women.  Instead‚ it’s the basic relationships between the men and women‚ the relationships of husband and wife‚ of brother and sister‚ father and daughter‚ and especially mother and son‚

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    Femininity In Othello

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    Mother‚ sister‚ daughter‚ aunt‚ and grandmother all are titles for women in people’s lives. What are their purposes in their lives? Over centuries‚ women have matriculated through the hierarchy of respect and authority societally. Through some literature‚ they can be looked at as symbols of strength. But‚ for Shakespeare‚ especially in Othello‚ women are viewed as worthless‚ gullible sex symbols. Three authors in their article state Revisiting Shakespeare and Gender‚ “For Shakespeare‚ as well as

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    Susan B Anthony Analysis

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    the viewer’s perception‚ it is evident that good is more prevalent in today’s society and more people choose to be good rather than evil. People can see that mankind chooses to be good through the actions of leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ and Urvashi Vaid. Martin Luther King Jr. is the first of many people who makes it easy to believe that mankind is good. Dr. King is well known for being the leader of the civil rights movement in such a way that avoided violence at all

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