p129) Patriarchy indirectly opposes this source of the meaning with male leaders moderating their control with their own male qualities. However‚ this thinking needed a stern control over the attribution of suitable behavior for each sex‚ signifying that gendered meanings “exist primarily as constructions of particular societies.” (Valerie Traub‚ “Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare” p129)One display of this control contained in both plays is the orderly arrangement of female sexuality‚ a classification distinguished
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Emily Blanzy The Relationship between Postfeminism and Power Politics Margaret Atwood’s‚ Bodily Harm‚ details the descent of a Canadian woman named Rennie from normalcy to physical‚ emotional and psychological disturbance. Rennie undergoes a partial mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer‚ suffers the disintegration of her romantic relationship with Jake and finds herself entrenched in the political upheaval of the Caribbean island St. Antoine. Rennie lives rather apathetically;
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fortifying our own perspectives about gender roles but also help shape people into a gendered being. Therefore‚ boys are raised to conform to male gender role and girls are brought up to fit the female gender role. In a ‘Western Society’ for example the US or Europe‚ education becomes an integral part of a child’s livelihood from a very young age. The influences from education that condition children into specific gendered beings cannot be ignored as school time accounts for most of a child or teenager’s
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serious workers outside the home; if women are taught that it is their job to take care of relationships with men‚ they may be blamed for breakups; if women are economically dependent on men‚ they may stay with abusive male partners; if women prefer intimacy with women‚ men may harass or violate them. What I’ve left off the list is the issue that both women and men in my classes have the most trouble understanding -- or‚ as I see it‚ share a strong unwillingness to understand -- sexist language. I’m
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inequality‚ and sexual harassment. The concept of gender in relation to the division of labor in the workplace‚ and in relation to issues of power and control is an unfortunate‚ groundless stereotype. Suzanne Tallichet notes that the gendered division of workplace labor is rooted in flawed ideology of innate sex differences in traits and abilities‚ and operates through various control mechanisms. (Tallichet 1995: 698) These control mechanisms are primarily exercised by men over women
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was a “spatial dimension to their constructions of gender categories”. Julia Hendon‚ who conducted research at the Maya site of Copan‚ Honduras -- specifically in a sub-area of Copan known as Las Sepulturas -- notes that typically the most female gendered area of the houselot was the hearth‚ which is known mainly through ethnographic and ethnohistoric data. Hendon argues that because women’s duties included food preparation and the grinding of maize‚ that the hearth area would be primarily women’s
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Bryant-45099 Part VII.qxd 10/18/2006 7:22 PM Page 266 26 THE SOCIOLOGY OF LOVE‚ COURTSHIP‚ AND DATING ERICA OWENS West Virginia University T he question of “What is love?” has piqued curiosity and engendered frustration for much of history. The exasperated answer that you “just know” when you are in love is reflected in the body of sociological literature on the phenomenon. Sociologists do not seem to agree on a uniform definition‚ although there are several competing but
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interpretations. In reference to the drama text “The Shifting Heart” written by Richard Beynon‚ interpretations such as Gendered Readings‚ Power In relationships and lastly‚ representations of the Australian Stereotyped Society groups compared to the Italians‚ can all be the result of the reading strategy of using Personal context to relate to the characters. An interpretation such as a gendered reading can be built up through the use of the reading strategy of personal context‚ which is relating in certain
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expectations and perceptions of Army spouses (69). She begins by discussing what these gender roles mean by arguing that the spouse roles that exist within the army are culturally constructed‚ and these roles are not expected of men which proves they are gendered (Harrell‚ 70). She goes on to argue that these roles are culturally constructed because there is nothing preventing men from filling the role of officer’s spouse (Harrell‚ 70). Harrell then progresses through a brief history of Army spouses and how
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without dictating which kinds of possibilities ought to be realized.” (viii) “Gender Trouble sought to uncover the ways in which the very thinking of what is possible in gendered life is foreclosed by certain habitual and violent presumptions….What worried me most were the ways that the panic in face of such [minority gendered and sexual practices] rendered them unthinkable” (ibid) - influence of French Feminism‚ poststructural theory‚ but Butler discusses how the two come together in her
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