Historically‚ the treatment of femininity in literature is wide ranging. Some texts explore the feelings and responsibilities involved with typically feminine traits such as motherhood and in social environments‚ while others highlight more feminist issues such as the struggle for equality and male oppression. Authors of both sexes have made major contributions to this area in literature but it remains surprising that male writers have been able to perceptively portray women above their previously
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In Griselda Pollock’s article Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity‚ she elaborates on her beliefs that modern art history selectively celebrates normalized gendered stereotypes of females and female artists and their works1. She makes four arguments to support her beliefs based on references to works of art and literary works. The arguments are structured in a way that allows the readers to understand them through long discussions with added evidence from referenced works or personal experience
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"The Dangers of Femininity" by Lucy Gilbert and Paula Webster discusses gender roles in society‚ and Messages Men Hear: Constructing Masculinities by Ian Harris discusses specifically the gender roles of men. According to Gilbert and Webster‚ "the two-gender system mandates masculine and feminine beings who are unequal‚ giving one set social power and the other none." (41) These masculine and feminine qualities are not just determined by sex. They are defined by the certain characteristics that a
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Ivonne Marie Quinones English Comp I Essay 2 April 19‚ 2013 The True Story of History History is the story of our past‚ our family‚ and who we are. I believe history is identity because it is what makes us who we are. We all have a different stories but we all have something in common. History almost never has a happy ending‚ but it could have a better out come over time. There are memories of pain‚ suffering‚ hard work‚ and discrimination that are based in our life. I am Latin American
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The Media: Does It Shape Society ’s View of Femininity? The question answers itself. Yes‚ the media definitely influences today ’s society via messages through the television‚ radio‚ magazines‚ and billboards. It seems that in today ’s day and age to even be "noticed" as a woman one must be tall‚ skinny‚ blonde‚ and countless other things that the "average woman" could only hope for. Today‚ if one is not comfortable with who or what they are‚ they may encounter many dilemmas
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“Behind the Fair Façade” Representations of Femininity in Three Walt Disney Animated Features Bachelor Thesis Bethany Schouten‚ 3278972 Media en Cultuurwetenschappen Genderstudies Supervisor: Domitilla Olivieri May 31st‚ 2011 “Behind the Fair Façade” Representations of Femininity in Three Walt Disney Animated Features Bachelor thesis by Bethany Schouten‚ 3278972 Index Introduction 3 Methodological and theoretical Framework 4 Corpus 9 The Research:
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also mean a man who had taken no title. And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion-to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.” (13) Chapter 2 Thematic Idea: Masculinity versus Femininity Situation: The
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Journal of Undergraduate Research X (2007) Masculinity and Femininity: Do Sex‚ Race‚ and Social Class Matter? Brianne Nillissen and Caitlin Young Faculty Sponsor: Betsy L. Morgan‚ Department of Psychology ABSTRACT Little empirical research explores the intersections of sex‚ race‚ and social class. In the current study‚ we expected to find that participants would rate Black men highest in masculinity and White women highest in femininity‚ and working class males would be seen to have higher levels
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE CULTURAL DISCOURSE OF FEMININITY IN THE OFFENCE OF RAPE This article seeks to establish that the provision of capital punishment in rape statutes‚ as well as the guiding rhetoric behind it‚ is antithetical to the interests of the rape survivors‚ as it premised on the idea of rape as a ‘fate worse than death’. The equation of rape with death is purely linguistic‚ however‚ it functions as justification for a societal order that ostracizes rape victims and renders them
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of leadership and apply it to their careers after Women’s Movement which made a big change to gender roles. To what extent did Women’s Movement‚ which for instance rose labor force participation rate of adult women‚ change social attitudes toward femininity? A photograph from 1913 of a woman called Inez Milholland who was the leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Parade wearing white
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