The Red Tent Gender Roles

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant illuminates one of the greatest testimonies to women’s strength: childbirth. On a creative level, Diamant did something extraordinary. She took a small passage from the Bible about the character Dinah, and made her story into an unforgettable testimony to women’s strength and power. Overlooking women’s role in Biblical life is easy because there is practically nothing written by or about women. Even though Diamant’s story is fictionalized, there is truth in showing that women did exist, that there was a very important role played by women of that time period, and in showing the power and strength of women in a way that can never be

Thus, the rescue and adoption of Moses is a women's rebellion, staged in a feminine

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

In present day all around the world, society has certain expectations for the actions and behaviors of males and females. There are many factors in our everyday lives that contribute to the gender norms that society has set. This essay will discuss how situations in life can play a part in how people treat other people based on their gender. It is believed that males are the leaders of our world, but in present day woman can do as much as men can do. From The Journal of Marriage and Family, Hu states, “Differentiated gender roles in adulthood are rooted in one’s gender role socialization. In order to understand the persistence of gender inequalities in the domestic sphere, we need to examine the gendered patterns of children’s housework time.”(2015, P.1). Gender roles are society’s expectations of the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females that they must be taught. These roles define how females and males are viewed in society, their household, and workplace. In The Journal of Sports behavior by Hardin, he states, “Although gender role differences from biological and “Natural” exists in popular consciousness, research has long demonstrated that instead, many are long time socially constructed… Individuals understand their gender because they are given names and treated in particular ways, such as dress in pink for girls and blue for boys, that reflect social construction of gender. Bandura's social cognitive theory is key in understanding the factors in socialization”(2009, P.3). Bandura's theory of of social cognition is that behavior, environmental events, and cognitive factors are the main keys that shape attitudes and actions of an individual. Although, gender roles play a very big part in our society, specific genders are treated differently while dealing with peer influence, media influence, as well as employment.

There are many hidden and sub-surface meanings in life. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is no exception to that fact. As the title of the novel suggests, the novel is about the rise of a new generation that breaks away from the societal conventions of the previous generation. Though The Sun Also Rises seems to be simply about the rise of a new generation, a closer look at the relationship between Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley suggests a queer relationship produced out of gender role nonconformity. Their relationship enables one to see the blurring of the lines that divide the conventional gender roles.

Your _____ depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that released either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system.

Things Fall Apart is a literary novel written and published by Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, or Chinua Achebe, in the 1959. Chinua was born on November 16, 1930 into a Nigerian village named Ogidi. Things Fall Apart is based in Nigeria around the year 1890. The book addresses topics including, “Nigeria’s white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people” (SparkNotes Editors). The book also contains several controversial topics involving, Christian missionaries being labeled, “foolish”, the subject matter of death and suicide, and the physical and verbal abuse that the women received. Chinua well portrays the “macho” and chiefly attitude of the African men in the Ibo society. But the question is, how exactly are women treated within the society? The well respected Okonkwo is a prime example on exactly how men treated women during this time period.

She gives a concise introduction and comprises each section by main character. There are four sections in these chapters which are divided as victors, victims, virgins, and voice. Frymer-Kensky explains that the sections represent, “four discourses to which these stories address themselves.” (xvii) Tikva explains that the “‘woman as victor’ stories are tales about heroic women who become saviors” (xvii); yet, they are more broadly encouraging stories for a people challenged by disadvantageous circumstances. Similarly, while the “women as victim” stories are “tales of women who suffer at the hands of the men in power” (xvii), Frymer-Kensky maintains that they also illustrate Israel’s experiences as “marginalized” and “vulnerable,” “battered by her enemies” (xxi). The group of stories that Frymer-Kensky calls “Voices (of God)” include narratives of women who “appear as oracles,” serving as “the voice of God’s decisions” concerning the history of Israel (xviii-xix). These, too, have broader application, Frymer-Kensky argues. For “just as these women, not politically powerful themselves, are privileged to know the will of God, so too Israel, small and marginal between the great empires of the world, is nevertheless the bearer of God’s word” (xxi). Finally, in the category of “Virgins,” Frymer-Kensky discusses stories concerned variously with “marriage, intermarriage, ethnicity and boundaries with non-Israelites” (xix). Consequently, they address “the complex issues of identity and survival” (xix) and “define the borders of Israel” (xxi). Because her aim is to discuss “the meaning of the women-stories as a group and … the concept of ‘woman’ in the Bible” (xxvii), Frymer-Kensky does not discuss every woman who appears in biblical texts. She even avoids such “greats” as Eve and Miriam, whose shadows the author explains may inhibit our appreciation of how other women’s stories shed light on Israel’s

Dinah tells her story because of her fear that her tragedy will not live on, and will mean nothing. Dinahs story, in the Bible, is a footnote in the Bible, while the stories of her mother's, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah live on, although the Bible misrepresents the powerful women in Dinahs life. She holds on to her memories, as an anchor so that when faced with a fresh start and a new life, she is afraid of moving on, as Dinah is still living in her tragic past. Childbirth/midwifery

A Raisin in the Sun is the story of a lower-class African American family living in poverty in the south of Chicago. The family seeks to move into a white middle-class neighborhood. The son of the family feels an entitlement to the money that they derive from the insurance pay off. The mother buys a house with a portion of the money, set aside $3000 for the daughter’s education and give the rest to the son to the manage. The son is conned of the money by his street acquaintances, and the family is informed by one of the white neighbor afraid of interracial relations they might not be welcome in the neighborhood. This paper will look at the role of the female characters in the play and their role in transforming water into a patriarch.

The play, “The Red Count,” which features a play within a play where people of Russia in 2013 are preforming a play about Alexei Tolostoy, a 1930’s Russian playwright who was a favorite of Stalin, also features a number of female characters who play a crucial role in the plot. Among these important characters are Putin’s wife, Lyudmila, Anna Chekova, Anna Akhmatova, Alexei’s current wife, Ludo, and Alexei’s ex-wife, Julia. These women are often seen in an unfavorable light and treated poorly by their male counterparts, but the reader can admire their strength and independence. The complexity of this play leads to complex characters, and each of these women are unique and portrayed in a different light than the other women. In the 2013 play, Lyudmila is a strong-willed and sympathetic character and Anna is talented but used, while in the 1930’s play, Akhmatova is seen as disrespected and unreliable, Ludo is superficial and submissive, and Julia is bold and has a strong sense of self.

“I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent,” (1 Tim 2:12). Throughout the course of history, it is obvious women were essential to and played a key role to the patriarchal society as the housewife. While reading The Bible, the patriarchal society is clearly evident in these times as shown in several cases such as Queen Vashti; however, the Virgin Mary, Elizabeth, and Mary Magdalene combat the ideals of the patriarchy. The Gospel of Luke offers a compelling account combatting the patriarchal society in the Christmas story showing that not all women were and should be succumbed to the standards of the housewife.

She took care of Ruth May when she was sick. When the red ants came and started to eat away at the village, Leah was concerned about her family while Rachel just wanted to escape. The same thing happened when all the women in the family left Kilanga. Leah was more interested in the Congo and her family than Rachel was. Rachel just left without a second thought to her mother of sisters.

Society determines how males and females should think, speak, dress, and interact. Gender roles are expectations of how a person should think, speak, and dress based on our sex. In most cases, it is the woman’s responsibility to take care of the house, which includes cleaning, meal preparations, raising and taking care of the children. Compared to the men who take care of the more physical activities, such as handy work and physical labor. Although the intensity of gender roles has changed, it still exists. In Aritha van Herk’s novel, the Tent Peg, these gendered classifications become very apparent in how each gender of characters views themselves within society but also how the male and female characters view one another.

The rigidity of gender norms and gender roles is analogous to those in the New Testament and provides insight on how the society present in the story uses religion to present women as a monolith. Due to biblical expectations, women are constrained from making autonomous decisions, thus forcing them to follow a moral code. In the bible, women are groomed to become child bearers and “pure” wives (Titus 2:4-5), an idea shared in the book. This promotes them as having no sense of self-ownership, which objectifies them as characteristics, not humans with nuanced emotions nor ideals. An example of this is Purisima del Carmen. After she got married, Purisima’s teaching career ended quickly because of