Femininity

Thesis: Why did standards of beauty for the female body begin reflecting the narrow, Eurocentric image that is prevalent in both Western and Eastern cultures today? Source 1: Cvajner, Martina. “Hyper-Femininity as Decency: Beauty, Womanhood and Respect in Emigration.” Ethnography, vol. 12, no. 3, 2011, pp. 356–374. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048143. In this research account, the author relates her experience with a certain group of outcasted USSR immigrant, working class women in a conservative

/That no compunctious visitings of nature /Shake my fallen purpose.”(Shakespeare, 1.1.5). Lady Macbeth asks for her to be ‘unsex’, wishing for her femininity to be released, then goes on to mention how she might

the ideal characteristics of femininity throughout the nineteenth century” (610). Formally, the Victorian Era followed the reign of Queen Victoria in England from 1837 to 1901, but the era is not so rigidly set. The ideologies, values, and mores associated with the Victorian Era were present before Queen Victoria, and then followed into America and also lived sixty years past its recorded date of death. In the United States during the 1950s and 60s, the idea of femininity was still being explored, just

Femininity in Antigone Gender roles persist throughout all human history. The time of the ancient Greeks were no exception. As shown in the play Antigone, males and females have very different places in society. Men are in charge, and women are submissive to them. Women take care of the men. They give emotional support and heirs. They are never supposed to question or oppose their male superiors. Women are disposable baby-makers because, as Creon says, “there are other fields just as fertile” (585)

In “Arab American Femininities: Beyonf Arab Virgin/ American(ized) Whore,” author Nadine Naber interviews Arab American women in order to argue against the falseness of the notion of ‘good Arab girls’ and ‘bad American(ized) girls.’ Many of these women are heavily influenced

in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is rich with many different themes: supernatural, justice, revenge, hypocrisy, sin, man and the natural world, just to name a few. But one particularly strong theme present in this novel is feminism and femininity. For hundreds of years, protest literature has been a viable way of critiquing a social, political, or religious injustice. Nathaniel Hawthorne was not different in that regard. What makes Hawthorne different than other protest writers is how original

Jane Austen, one of the most well-known 19th century novelists recognized today continues to captivate people with stories of love and romance through the transformation of her novels into film and television. All of her novels are about women dealing with romance, courtship, and marriage during a repressing period. Most of her characters and stories revolve around the lives of the upper class. It centers on the values, rituals, and manners of high society in England during the Regency Era. Her most

To the ancient Greeks, Love and Sex were just as important as to any culture. While their concepts of what is love and sex and there purposes differed from our modern Western concepts of the same topics, they were also similar in many ways. One can study Greek literature and art and find plenty of evidence to support arguments about how the Greeks felt about love, sex, and homosexuality, it is often a one sided description provided to us from our ancient sources. Nearly all we have left to us is

The crisis of masculinity created the needs of femininity. Through the “othering process”, men were reminded to be masculine. Being an organizational man, who went to work and provide food and money to the family, became another gender norm for males. On the other side, women dyed their hair blonde, kept

In the texts The Sun Also Rises and The Stranger, women and their femininity play a large role in the story, and share many similarities, but also many differences. In The Sun Also Rises, women are portrayed mainly as strong and powerful, having control over their male counterparts. The Stranger on the other hand has less representation of female characters, and the main female who is portrayed differs in many ways than those in The Sun Also Rises, but there are some similarities. The main female