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    works‚ Penguin Books Australia Ltd‚ Ringwood Australia. Freud‚ S. ([1905]‚ 1977)‚ First Essay: Sexual Aberrations in Three Essay on the Theory of Sexuality and other works‚ Penguin Books Australia Ltd‚ Ringwood Australia. Freud‚ S. ([c.1938]‚ 2003)‚ Femininity in CLS2950: Freud and Feminism 2003‚ Course Dossier Minsky‚ R. (1996)‚ Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader‚ Routledge‚ London‚ UK.

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    obvious gender differences are in advertisement and employment. When it comes to the issue of tourism and advertisement‚ the way men and women are depicted in tourist advertisements are based upon people’s presumptions about masculinity and femininity. Because of history depiction of males as the one’s whore are more likely to travel‚ and women who travel as being improper‚ (Enloe 208) the majority of tourist advertisements are directed at men. This is apparent through the use of sex appeal.

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    I know that in my personal life I have been shunned for not being masculine enough. Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she was two and a half years the argument that she used to convince her father to bring her to the fair was “Take me‚ Daddy… I’m the prettiest!” (Walker 368). She feels that the most valuable thing she has is her beauty. The next example of her femininity

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    broadcasted while modeling in a swimsuit. Although beauty pageants‚ such as the Miss Universe and the Binibining Pilipinas‚ as a whole supposedly celebrate beauty and femininity‚ empower women‚ and give equal importance to women’s intelligence and physical beauty‚ they actually only highlight a narrow-minded or limited standard of beauty and femininity‚ reduce women to the status of commodity‚ and emphasize only on physical beauty. The purposes‚ then‚ of this paper is to show that through beauty pageants

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    theories cannot nor should not be easily labeled as overtly feminine since de Beauvoir did not identify with the plight of the woman outlined in her novel. A point that Professor Zerilli emphasized during her lecture was that assigning and defining femininity to females limits the the feminine role in society. To me‚ the perspective Zerilli presents during her lecture mirrors the sentiments of Frantz Fanon in Black Skin‚ White Masks. As both Fanon and de Beauvoir discuss their respective topics in the

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    black"(pg.575). Cixious’ use of the terms dark and black signify that women have been left out‚ cut off from the "normal" forms of language and communication. Women have been kept in the dark as if they were a secret to the rest of society. Their femininity and sexuality have been ignored and undefined in "men’s" language. By far the worst of all‚ women have been taught to be their own enemies. This is what Cixious wants to destroy and break up. Her second aim is to foresee the unforeseeable and to

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    concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity by providing a divide. Men are looked at as the bread winners and the providers‚ they are generally stronger which are the qualities of masculinity. Women are looked at as the softer type‚ the ones that take care of everyone and provides comfort and take care of everyone‚ that is the qualities of femininity. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute

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    Wigman denies performing femininity. Unlike the conventional female dancers‚ she makes grotesque movements. For instance‚ as sitting on the floor‚ she holds her ankle and stamps her feet on the ground. It seems like an evil witch gets ready to aggressively devour her prey. Besides her dance‚ a wacky mask erases any emotion from her face‚ and a series of explosive sound generate fear and tension in her stage. Wigman decides to be a witch rather than to perform femininity. No one knows how old she

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    There are a couple factors that determine gender identity; like genetic factors‚ environmental situations‚ psychosocial factors‚ and even sexual hormones. “Gender identity is almost always consistent with chromosomal sex.” (Rathus‚ S. A.‚ Nevid‚ J.S.‚ and Fichner-Rathus‚ L. 2005). From the moment sperm fertilized an ovum‚ our destiny to be a girl or a boy is chosen. Usually at this point; 23 chromosomes from the male donor and 23 from the female come together and combine to make a “zygote”. Starting

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    use. What is gender? What is sex in biological terms? Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not? GENDER: is the range of mental‚ physical and behavioral characteristics that distinguish between male “masculinity” and female “femininity”. SEX: how the organisms are classified as either female or male based on their reproductive organs and functions. Yes I feel that gender and sex are the same thing for the most part reason being is that both state that a person is identified

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