Essays Tagged: "female identity"
The Silenced Body: Institutionalization of gender and gender regimes
a society where the phenomenological value and history is validated through apatriarchal order, the female identity becomes neutralized and imposed upon theconstitution corresponding to its biased and ... zed and imposed upon theconstitution corresponding to its biased and specific conditions. Thus, the femalebody becomes the silenced body, the body unable of expression, deserted by it'sembodiment, and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
gender roles
nder identity must be established. It is at birth when an infant (person) is given either a male or female identity. Once the parents have been told, it is then that society will set the example and a ... there were no women employed in these areas of work, no facilities available for women, such as no female toilets, also the general conversation between employees was derogatory to the opposite sex. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Gender Roles.
nder identity must be established. It is at birth when an infant (person) is given either a male or female identity. Once the parents have been told, the society will set the examples and attitudes fo ... there were no women employed in these areas of work, no facilities available for women, such as no female toilets, also the general conversation between employees was derogatory to the opposite sex. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
"The Passion" By. Jeanette Winterson
The book "The Passion" is a wonderful book that brings with it many themes. Female identity, gender roles, passion, love, gambling, religion and war. Passion is the main topic ... hallus. Villanelle now has a very masculine trait; this then takes her character away from male and female into an androgynous character.With Villanelle stepping away from a "woman's role" there are s ... e done, worked the boats, was closed to me on account of my sex" (p.53).Villanelle was not the only female that was not allowed to take the job she wanted most. Henri's mother was also shut out of an ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Color Purple - More than Meets the Eye
ovelist with a keen appreciation of the black experience, articulates this sense of freedom and its female identity with passion and integrity. "The Color Purple" is thus Walker's declaration of indep ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
The Potential for Change: The relationship between male/female with culture/nature
e. He offset hyper-masculinity against hyper-femininity which impacted on the construction of Irish female identity, whereby women were portrayed by the Irish Free State government against a backdrop ... reinforced by Ortner in her cultural ideology of Taoism; the yin and yang concept whereby male and female "are given equal weight". After all, woman is "half of the human race".The Irish Free State g ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
What do gender theorists mean when they claim that gender is a 'social construct'?
lar to the long standing 'nature versus nurture' debate. One's 'sex' is a biological fact; male and female genitalia. One's 'gender' is essentially the behaviour that is expected from males and female ... ndeavour to explain what is meant by socially constructed gender.Definitions of the 'male' and the 'female' come from what we learn, not what is part of our biological make-up. John Locke, for example ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality