These discourses also present characteristics such as physical weakness‚ and showing emotion as representative of femininity‚ and the antithesis of the warrior hero‚ and in doing so‚ create a gendered order along which men and women position
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passion‚ commitment‚ and intimacy. The second is an infatuated couple‚ one that is purely passion. Then there is fatuous which is high on both passion and commitment. The fourth is an empty relationship‚ which is pure commitment. This means that this certain type of couple does not need a big amount of passion or intimacy. The last three are all high on intimacy but differ very vaguely. There is companionate which includes commitment. Romantics which is a mixture of both intimacy and passion. And the
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mindset of the modern global society. Gender is a simple concept to understand if it is considered without previous influence from respective cultures. Gender is defined by The Gender Book as “Part of a person’s identity. Specific attributes can be gendered like behavior‚ voice‚ clothing‚ haircut‚ and social roles…We get messages about what it means to be masculine or feminine from our society. These change over
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come to believe and to perform in the mode of belief” (Gender Trouble). To say that gender is performative is to argue that gender is “real only to the extent that it is performed” (Gender Trouble). 2. There is no self preceding or outside a gendered self. Butler writes‚ “ . . . if gender is constructed‚ it is not necessarily constructed by an ‘I’ or a ‘we’ who stands before that construction in any spatial or temporal sense of ‘before.’ Indeed‚ it is unclear that there can be an ‘I’ or a “we”
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attend and watch the games. In 1896‚ Baron Pierre de Coubertin resurrected the Olympics and still no changes had made for women participants. This form of ancient sport and ceremony may have been a very long time ago and some believe that today this gendered inequality within the Olympic games is not an issue. Although women may be able to participate within the Olympic Games today‚ there is still
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Female characters do not normally go into battle or see themselves as the active partner in love. These female characters disprove the connection between femaleness and passivity‚ maleness and activity. This exceptional status marks appoint of difference between contemporary interpretations and our own. Once exceptions proved the rule because they were exceptional. Today they demonstrate that women may do things which have only been thought to be exceptional. Action also entails isolation for these
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Feminism is a branch of the conflict perspective as it looks at inequalities and associates them with gendered differences (Brym‚ pg #‚ 2014). According to the Brym textbook‚ Feminism “refers to the body of thought on the cause and nature of women’s disadvantages and subordinate position in society and to efforts to minimize or eliminate that subordination”
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stage has an element of social experiences‚ which impacts a person’s development‚ competence and confidence. The timeline consists of stages spread across a person’s whole lifespan. The stage of Erikson’s theory that I chose to examine was Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation. This stage involves early adulthood when people are exploring personal relationships (between the ages of 19-40 years old). Since I am 21 years old and currently personally involved with this stage of psychosocial development‚ I had
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Can we blame women’s inferior position in the workplace on bureaucracy? Provide a critical discussion. Many arguments have been held on‚ whether the bureaucratic organisational structure and culture has led to the inferior positions that women hold in the workplace. Two prominent feminists Rosabeth Kanter and Kathy Ferguson bring out two arguments surrounding this argument. Rosabeth Kanter holds the position that it is not bureaucracy that causes women to have inferior positions in the workplace
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GAD 301 GENDER ANALYSIS – CRITICAL CROSS- CULTURAL APPROACHES Course leader: Haldis Haukanes Literature: Books: Connell‚ R.‚ 2009. Gender. Cambridge‚ Polity Press. Chapters 1‚3‚4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7 Articles and Book Chapters: Annfelt‚ Trine. 2008. The ‘new’ father: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies. In: Melby‚ Ravn and Wetterberg‚ Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Bristol: The policy Press‚ pp 119-134 (15 pages) Arnfred
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