military conflicts and [the] pursuit of American Indians. Jane [was] a transgressor. She is a woman‚ yet she dresse[d] in trousers and [rode] shotgun on the stagecoach. She knew from the beginning that she will be lost[;] [a lost wanderer] between femininity and masculinity. She wrote unsent letters to her imposter[‚] darling daughter. These letters collected all together formed a diary; [one which] showed Calamity Jane as a transgressor. This answered Dr.Toulgui’s [overarching] question[:] “Did
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rebuke a man. These two forms of sexism open the question of how a woman deals with this sexist society. The paper will speak about these forms of sexism and what women use to navigate through our society focusing on the gender strategy of emphasized femininity. Benevolent sexism “the attribution of positive traits to women that‚ nonetheless‚ justify women’s subordination to men” (Wade and Ferree 2015: 147). There is this widely held belief that women are delicate flowers that need to be protected. Benevolent
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Leah Fraser English 422 March 30‚ 2014 Favorite Essay Working Title The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is arguably one of the most universally popular young adult science fiction novels of the decade. It is read by people of all ages and has been translated into twenty-six languages. It is easy to write off The Hunger Games as merely another trend in young adult fiction‚ but it is much more significant than that. There are many ways to interpret the novel‚ but one aspect of it that is impossible
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referring to then as her pistols: “Well‚ I shall have one thing at least to kill time with in the meanwhile…my pistols‚ George” (1‚ 796-799) Tesman shows he has anxiety about the fact that his wife Hedda does not conform to the traditional ideals of femininity of the time. Pistols are viewed to most as dangerous objects however Hedda sees them as just toys; this is very similar to the way that her lethal manipulations are solely for her own amusement. Hedda is unaccustomed
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nothing without a woman or a girl” (Brown)‚ this is true for both Lady Macbeth and Bianca. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew‚ Lady Macbeth and Bianca are both female characters who struggle for power in a man’s world‚ one rejects femininity and the other exploits it. Lady Macbeth consciously attempts to reject her feminine sensibility and adopt a male mentality by calling upon murdering spirits That tend on mortal thoughts‚ unsex me here‚ And fill me from the crown to the
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she could do it herself. The relationship between gender and power is key to Lady Macbeth’s character. She is a masculine soul inhabiting a female body‚ which seems to link masculinity to ambition and violence. According to Caroline Cakebread “… femininity is not an attribute to be equated with power and ‚ in the murder of Duncan‚ feminine attributes lead to virtual erasure in terms of power politics. “ . Lady Macbeth is a crafty woman‚ power is for her manipulation to further her supposedly male
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Laura Walker 10/20/2014 Rhetorical Analysis of ‘What’s Wrong with Cinderella’ By Peggy Orenstein Using personal experience‚ Peggy Orenstein‚ discusses the impact businesses such as Disney and Mattel have on reinforcing gender roles. The fact that she is a mother discussing her own struggles gives the piece a more casual and personal tone. She is speaking to those like her. Having a conversation with the readers causes the piece to be well-rounded. While she does not address the reader directly
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Maholtz Theory essay Friday 9 Sept. 2011 Femininity and masculinity in the early 30’s Femininity and masculinity or gender identity refers to the degree to which people see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or woman in society (Burke 1988). Femininity and masculinity are ideas imposed by society based on stereotypes that may change over time. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the author talks about how femininity and masculinity where defined in the early
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II: Battling for supremacy - The Retrosexual versus the Metrosexual. One theory that has been used to account for the construction of identity is the conception of Binary Opposition. Frequently‚ when the notion of binary opposition is considered‚ the use of ‘Other’ is manifest. “Otherness is a fundamental category of human thought... it became to contrast “Good and Evil‚ right and left‚ God and Lucifer” (de Beauvoir‚ 1949; 17). The ‘Other’‚ therefore‚ is utilized to provide empowerment to particular
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namely Melanie Snyder and Wayne "Woody" Kunz. These two characters both struggle with different aspects of their personal lives; in Wayne Kunz’s case‚ he is in constant battle with his manhood‚ whereas Melanie Snyder has somewhat renounced her femininity. Her very appearance when we first see her in the story is quite strange‚ because she is seen dressed in her brothers’ clothes which mask her feminine side. Both of these characters in this story are representative of many persons today whose identities
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