. For instance, if a lady were to approach another lady and her actual name was Diane, then of course it may not seem attractive. However, if it was changed from Diane to Dominic then it would sound manly. According to the book entitled Journey of the Early Republic said that, “young girls with deep voices and masculine names (“Hero,” “Clyda,” “Georgian”), who dream of and engage in masculine behavior—shooting muskets, playing with swords, fighting nobly in battles.” This shows that not only changing their names to become masculine, but changing their voices to sound deeper is attractive because if a masculine woman were to have an adorable and soothing voice then that may not seem as attractive.
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The journal called Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education mentioned that, “the implications for gender identities and understandings of gender. Related to these theories of the individual as disembedded from society are those in which gender is detached from structural biology. Halberstam 's (1998) conception of female masculinities is informing, as well as being challenged by, feminist educationalists ' work.” It is challenging for them because they would have to gather data and support with facts in regards to the concept about female masculinity and thus creating experiments would be challenging in figuring out the causes and the facts in regards about gender identity. Moreover, the journal stated this, “However, we maintain that her work on female masculinity raises similar challenges around the notions of choice-making, agency and self-making (in this case, regarding gender performance/ identification), and of the self as freed up from the material (in this case, from sexed bodies).” This shows that the main challenging part is to have critical thinking involved and to make crucial decisions and based off their study of using sexed bodies to have a deeper understanding about the masculinity presentation and its …show more content…
The film called The Aggressives which is a biography about different kinds of women who favor in dressing and acting as men. These women cover some of their body parts so that way they officially look like they have a male’s body. For instance, in the video it showed that the women would cover their breasts by using a bandage in wrapping their cleavage so that way it shows that they have no breasts. There may be controversy with their family once they found out that they did not want to be feminine anymore but gay. The lady in the video said this “being masculine is not how you dress, but what how you feel on the inside.” Since all the women in the film decided to not dress feminine was because they realized who they were, they felt on the inside that they were men. Her saying that, met that even if the female were to dress manly but if inside themselves they felt that it wasn’t who they are then them dressing manly is pointless. She is basically saying that you have to understand yourself and if you realize that you being a woman is not who you are, then you can go ahead and change yourself. The lady in the film said, “She never dated a female until she was 18.” When she dated a female, then her partner helped her realize that she is attracted to females and not males. People that have to go through
Likewise, women want to feel that they have …show more content…
The journal called Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education mentioned that, “the implications for gender identities and understandings of gender. Related to these theories of the individual as disembedded from society are those in which gender is detached from structural biology. Halberstam 's (1998) conception of female masculinities is informing, as well as being challenged by, feminist educationalists ' work.” It is challenging for them because they would have to gather data and support with facts in regards to the concept about female masculinity and thus creating experiments would be challenging in figuring out the causes and the facts in regards about gender identity. Moreover, the journal stated this, “However, we maintain that her work on female masculinity raises similar challenges around the notions of choice-making, agency and self-making (in this case, regarding gender performance/ identification), and of the self as freed up from the material (in this case, from sexed bodies).” This shows that the main challenging part is to have critical thinking involved and to make crucial decisions and based off their study of using sexed bodies to have a deeper understanding about the masculinity presentation and its …show more content…
The film called The Aggressives which is a biography about different kinds of women who favor in dressing and acting as men. These women cover some of their body parts so that way they officially look like they have a male’s body. For instance, in the video it showed that the women would cover their breasts by using a bandage in wrapping their cleavage so that way it shows that they have no breasts. There may be controversy with their family once they found out that they did not want to be feminine anymore but gay. The lady in the video said this “being masculine is not how you dress, but what how you feel on the inside.” Since all the women in the film decided to not dress feminine was because they realized who they were, they felt on the inside that they were men. Her saying that, met that even if the female were to dress manly but if inside themselves they felt that it wasn’t who they are then them dressing manly is pointless. She is basically saying that you have to understand yourself and if you realize that you being a woman is not who you are, then you can go ahead and change yourself. The lady in the film said, “She never dated a female until she was 18.” When she dated a female, then her partner helped her realize that she is attracted to females and not males. People that have to go through