Femininity

Boats are used in a subtle metaphor for women and sexuality in Beowulf. The boats Beowulf sails upon are described with surprisingly sensual language that stands out from the rest of the poem’s descriptions. The author writes of the “foam at her neck”, “her curved prow”, and his intention to “ply the waves”, all of which seem sensually coded. It is a small detail that boats, graceful and powerful objects, use female pronouns in Beowulf, but it is interesting. Using feminine pronouns mixed with vague

Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart describes the colonization of the Ibo tribe by a group of white missionaries. The text details the life of Okonkwo, a successful yam farmer with many wives and great power in his village, from his early adulthood up to his untimely death. In the beginning, Achebe presents the readers with Ikemefuna, a young boy from the neighboring Mbaino tribe, sent to Okonkwo’s household as punishment for murdering an Umuofian woman. Ikemefuna integrates into the family rapidly

by the Plastics, who are the most popular girls at North Shore High: Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. The pressure put on Cady by society causes her to struggle to decide what her priorities should be. Mean Girls criticizes the traditional notions of femininity that are expected of women, as they are not required for them to be successful and accomplished. Consider the scene when Cady first goes to Regina’s house, closer to the beginning of the movie. During this scene, the Plastics collectively walk up

Chandrakala Sunwar ID: 1303082 1 ECTS5001 Cultural Identities: Gender, Race & Media Chandrakala Sunwar, FSH (1303082) Framing images of feminity Chandrakala Sunwar ID: 1303082 2 Women both on and off screen have been portrayed in a manner that represent some feminist preference. Specifically, the feminist ideology is reproduced and represented in the manner in which female are dressed both on screen and off-screen. In a review of past period of time

article’s main focus is on the how the addition of female soldiers has redefined what it means to be a soldier and how this has changed the military as an institution. He also analyzes the agency available to women in the military and the role their femininity plays in their lives as soldiers. Badaró studied both male and female soldiers of varying ranks in the Argentine Army, most of whom were cadets or young officers at the Colegio Militar de la Nación (CMN), the only officer academy of the Argentine

masculinity to be a gendered niche that patriarchy must create for itself out of the markedly, fixedly feminine sphere (an idea or hypothesis I am seeming to create in my own work). Thus Robert decides instead not to appropriate those qualities that femininity possesses for a greater masculinity, but instead enters

I argue that class plays an important role on femininity of Katniss. The circumstances of Katniss’s lower class transform her into a masculine woman whereas the upper class of the Capitol expects her to perform the emphasized femininity by focusing on appearance and body care. Leading her life in a conflict to survive in District Twelve, Katniss’s lifestyle might be masculine. However, the excerpt mainly shows that Katniss also performs femininity situated on class. The representation of

Woman have always been held up to certain standards when it comes to their femininity; standards that can determine their success. In an essay called “Pink Think”, Lynn Peril expresses her own opinion on this mindset, shedding down a negative light onto the ideas and outlines created in pink think. Peril ends up mocking and pointing out the realistic ideals about the pink think mindset as well as expressing that pink think never had an intended purpose. Throughout Peril’s essay, she ridicules the

aphorism 59 of Minima Moralia, Adorno characterizes “the feminine character.” What is he up to here? Is this an accurate portrayal of the feminine? Is this account feminist? Is it misogynist? Aphorism 59 of Minima Moralia, seeks to establish that femininity is a product from the dominating nature of the masculine. Adorno emphasizes that the feminine must be discarded in order to end the humiliation. Depending on the reader this aphorism can either be seen as feminist or misogynist. Through this interpretation

In today’s society men are constantly reminded of what it is to be a man. What divides men and women are the characteristics they might possess of masculinity and femininity. To be distinguished as a man with feminine qualities would be considered an insult. In order to avoid such an insult men oftentimes go to far lengths to achieve societies idealized form of masculinity. Masculinity and its characteristics have changed throughout our continuously developing society. One dominant feature that continues