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Women In China Role Of Women
1,587 wordsEven since the dramatic post- 1949 changes in China regarding the role of women, China has remained paternalistic in it's attitudes and social reality. The land reform, which was intended to create a more balanced economic force in marriage, was the beginning of governmental efforts to pacify women, with no real social effect. Communist China needed to address the "woman question." Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power, capitalism was examin...
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Women In China Role Of Women
1,562 wordsEven since the dramatic post- 1949 changes in China regarding the role of women, China has remained paternalistic in it's attitudes and social reality. The land reform, which was intended to create a more balanced economic force in marriage, was the beginning of governmental efforts to pacify women, with no real social effect. Communist China needed to address the "woman question." Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power, capitalism was examin...
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Men And Women Masculinity And Femininity
970 wordsHolly Devor acknowledges that there are certain characteristics assigned to both males and females. These characteristics are classified according to the traditional roles of men and women in a patriarchal society, asserts Holly Devor. Devor states that many aspects of masculinity and femininity are the result, rather than the cause, of status inequalities. There are many examples of gender stereotypes in society today. For example, one very influential source is the media. Magazine advertisemen...
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Child Sexual Abuse Violence Against Women
1,956 words... al family relationships and they see the sexual abuse as secondary. Child sexual abuse is not seen as a crime but as a family problem. Thus this approach is not victim oriented, instead it focuses on the functioning of the family. This approach also displaces the responsibility of abuse from the abuser to the whole family, and most frequently to the mother. The dysfunctional family model looks at every one in the family as equal, but there is no equality between parents and children. Like th...
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Gender Inequality Theories Of Patriarchy
1,515 wordster> Assess the claim that gender inequalities in the domestic and occupational divisions of labour are best understood with reference to the concept of patriarchy. You should illustrate your answer with reference to a range of feminist perspectives. Introduction Western female thought through the centuries has identified the relationship between patriarchy and gender as crucial to the womens subordinate position. For two hundred years, patriarchy precluded women from having a legal or...
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Primal Scene H 2
795 wordsAccording to Kristeva's theory, in order to become a subject in the symbolic realm it is necessary to reject / abject that which gave us our existence - namely, the mother. Moreover, within patriarchal cultures women are reduced to the maternal function and therefore women, maternity and femininity are affected along with the maternal function. This misplaced abjection is one way to account for womens oppression and degradation within patriarchal cultures. For Kristeva, the process is helped alo...
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Vanessa Ewing Feminism In Mainstream Hollywood Cinema
1,202 wordsMainstream Hollywood cinema has for decades represented an erotic realm by using language and images of our patriarchal culture. It has satisfied and reinforced the masculine ego and repressed the desire of women. Feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey's essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' published in 1975 has proved to be one of the most influential articles in the whole of contemporary film theory. Mulvey's essay is heavily invested in theory. The essay makes use of Freudian psychoana...
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Esther Greenwood Socially Constructed
1,753 wordsIn Sylvia Plaths novel The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood seems incapable of healthy relationships with other women. She is trapped in a patriarchal society with rigid expectations of womanhood. The cost of transgressing social norms is isolation, institutionalization and a loss identity as woman. The struggle for an individual identity under this regime is enough to drive a person to the verge of suicide. Given the oppressive system under which she must operate, Esther Greenwood's problems with wom...
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Bodily Harm Margaret Atwood
1,054 wordsMargaret Atwood in her novels, short stories and even poetry uses a similar style of writing. It is a style that is not only distinctive but also effective. Her sense of description is one of her best talents. It allows her to create pieces of work that constantly reinforce her themes of political chaos and the effect that a patriarchal society has on women. As a feminist writer, much of her work deals with how men not only empower women but how they manage to hurt each other. Using parallelism ...
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Protect Her Chastity Relationship With Hamlet Women
1,866 wordsThe domination of women through patriarchal expectations is common throughout Shakespeare's works. An examination of Ophelia, Hero, and Desdemona portrays their victimization through male centered forms of power. These patriarchal power structures classify women as walking wombs who must remain virtuous until marriage. The pressure from these expectations leaves women weak and vulnerable. As long as they appear subservient to men, they are considered good. However, the more women try to represen...
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Virginia Woolf Patriarchal Society
1,211 wordsWorld Literature Both Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours based on the novel of Michael Cunningham are two brilliant masterpieces that narrate against the oppression of the human soul and for the celebration of diversity. Both works carry a nostalgic mood, heavily overlaid with the sense of memory. Mrs. Dalloway mostly takes place before World War I, and the rest of the novel focuses on vivid moments in memory that define lives and relationships. The Hours, although it takes place in t...
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World War Ii Dark And Gloomy
1,198 wordsAs a poet Sylvia Plath has been renowned for her style of writing and the power she evokes from her ideas in her poems. The themes of her poems tend to be of a negative nature with war, death and the problem of patriarchal societies as such topics. One of Plath's most famous pieces of poetry is Daddy. The poem focuses on Plath's father, a man who left her at an early age resulting in a burning hatred on her behalf for him. Daddy is an example of Plath's dark and gloomy work and also displays her...
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World War Ii Femme Fatale
2,526 wordsFilm Noir Almost every critic has his own definition of film noir, and a personal list of film titles and dates to back it up. (Schrader 2). The United States of America emerged from World War II drastically different from when they entered. The American society had changed in every aspect, even the American ideology differed from earlier ages. These changes had cultural impact, and in the middle of these confused times there occurred something previously unseen in the magical world of celluloid...
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Child Sexual Abuse Childhood Sexual Abuse
3,936 wordsUntil very recently around early part of 1970 s, the sexual assault of children within their families was rarely openly discussed until the emergence of the second wave of feminism. Incest has been variously defined. The definition that will be used here is a wide one, which includes sexual assault of a female child by a male member of her immediate family (father or stepfather) or extended family (brother, grandfathers and uncles) and / or trusted family friends. These men are in generally in a...
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Male Dominated Society Place In Society
4,388 wordsAlthough Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre to represent a modern woman, she fails to do so for Jane is forced to accept her role as a woman in the Victorian patriarchal society, which defines her character and determines the outcome of her life. Jane lives in a world and in a time where society thought women were too fragile to ponder. Women at the time have barely any rights at all and are not allowed prominent positions. Male dominance is the biggest obstruction at each stop of Janes journey thr...
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Beatrice And Benedick Appearance And Reality
1,197 wordsDiscuss The Importance Of Noting In Much Ado About Nothing Noting, or observing, is central to many of the ideas in Much Ado About Nothing. The word nothing was pronounced as noting in Elizabethan times, and it seems reasonable to presume that the pun was intended by Shakespeare to signal the importance of observation, spying and eavesdropping in the play. As a plot device, these occurrences propel the action and create humour and tension. The perils of noting incorrectly are portrayed and this ...
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Women In Society Women Of The Time
1,000 wordsIn the myths of the Centauromachy and the Amazonomachy, the Greeks found a manuscript for moral and disciplinary guidance in their dealings with the women of the time. By assigning the women of Greece hybris, Greek men targeted the women of Greece to intense programs of subjugation and social retribution in order to prevent the emergence of Centaurian or Amazonian traits, which would destroy the patriarchal nature of Archaic Greek culture. Generally, Greek myths tend to exemplify gender profilin...
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Women Were Evil Mother To Another Husband Odyssey
609 wordsPatriarchy in The Odyssey Women were always looked upon as inferior to males since the very beginning of time. This method, called patriarchy, was much displayed in Homer s Odyssey. The Odyssey favored the male specie, and viewed the men as more dominant than the females. For instance, Odysseus wife, Penelope, had been probed by the suitors while Odysseus was gone. Penelope s son, Telemachus had left her and his homeland of Ithaca to go to try and find his long-lost father, Odysseus. There was a...
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Soap Operas Female Characters
1,730 wordsPortrayal of Women in Soaps By doing a textual and feminist analysis, the specific issue we examined in our study is how womens characters are portrayed in soap operas, specifically Days of Our Lives, and how their behavior is affected by the patriarchal system. The feminist and textual analysis were done through the viewing of Days of Our Lives on three consecutive Fridays. We also read related articles that gave us a better understanding of our research topic. The combination of our viewing, r...
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Gender Roles Quot Line
1,326 wordsDeborah Pope The fearful, gloomy woman waiting inside her darkening room for the emotional and meteorological devastation to hit could be Aunt Jennifer, who is similarly passive and terrified, overwhelmed by events that eclipsed her small strength. " Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is, however, an even clearer statement of conflict in women, specifically between the impulse to freedom and imagination (her tapestry of prancing tigers) and the " massive weight" of gender roles and expe...
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