Our culture instilled in us the idea of sex and gender. Sex being the biological and physiological that helps define whom is a woman and whom is a man, and Gender which consists of socially established roles, behaviors, activities, attributes, and way of living that society deemed appropriate for men and women. Since the inception of this idea, society has differentiated and manages both categories. It is severely instilled in our daily life in a subtle manner- from our birth to our death, we are branded by either being a man, or a woman. We are constantly reminded by the way we dress, speak, act, presentation, as well as stories including religion. Various religions teach the story of Adam and Eve in the bible where Eve ate the forbidden
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The images we consistently see from these various types of media shape our view and expectations of women’s behavior and interaction. Significantly, it becomes societies’ rule as well as the cultural rule that is expected by the mass. The results produced by the idea that women’s sexuality was a men’s possession created the ‘sexual revolution’ which inspired sexual self-determination. During that revolution, representation of women in the media became extremely sexualized where female values were based on sexual appeal and behavior. Still, many women “create their own sexual materials and claim their sexuality for themselves” as well as “[reconciling] one’s sexual fantasy with one’s feminism” (Hunter College pg.30). Examples vary from pornography (openness to all body types), and artists like Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, and Beyoncé. Women overturn conventional media beauty standards, and they shape the perception of popular heroism belief through their own interpretation of reality. According to Hunter College, “women writers… had to create new and woman-centered ways of thinking about heroism” (Hunter College pg.39) in other words they introduced a new concept of heroism. Women were depicted as not accepting their fate passively instead they think, choose, …show more content…
Women were conditioned from birth. A baby’s first word is dada. Language is a way to demonstrate societies’ value and understanding of the world. It plays a role in shaping gender. Through different phases of time a word’s meaning changes and new concepts develop. It reveals the continuity of traditional gender ideas through hidden implicit sexism. For instance, firefighter, nurse, teacher and so forth. It is obvious that this battle would include self-examination. A person’s biggest enemy is themselves. To overcome and challenge sex and gender, it is imperative for women to understand the “internalization of the social conventions that oppress them” (Hunter College pg. 60), and to change “how women understood their identity both as women and mothers” (Hunter College pg. 59). Women need to transcend their own belief as being an object, and the other (the second
The images we consistently see from these various types of media shape our view and expectations of women’s behavior and interaction. Significantly, it becomes societies’ rule as well as the cultural rule that is expected by the mass. The results produced by the idea that women’s sexuality was a men’s possession created the ‘sexual revolution’ which inspired sexual self-determination. During that revolution, representation of women in the media became extremely sexualized where female values were based on sexual appeal and behavior. Still, many women “create their own sexual materials and claim their sexuality for themselves” as well as “[reconciling] one’s sexual fantasy with one’s feminism” (Hunter College pg.30). Examples vary from pornography (openness to all body types), and artists like Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, and Beyoncé. Women overturn conventional media beauty standards, and they shape the perception of popular heroism belief through their own interpretation of reality. According to Hunter College, “women writers… had to create new and woman-centered ways of thinking about heroism” (Hunter College pg.39) in other words they introduced a new concept of heroism. Women were depicted as not accepting their fate passively instead they think, choose, …show more content…
Women were conditioned from birth. A baby’s first word is dada. Language is a way to demonstrate societies’ value and understanding of the world. It plays a role in shaping gender. Through different phases of time a word’s meaning changes and new concepts develop. It reveals the continuity of traditional gender ideas through hidden implicit sexism. For instance, firefighter, nurse, teacher and so forth. It is obvious that this battle would include self-examination. A person’s biggest enemy is themselves. To overcome and challenge sex and gender, it is imperative for women to understand the “internalization of the social conventions that oppress them” (Hunter College pg. 60), and to change “how women understood their identity both as women and mothers” (Hunter College pg. 59). Women need to transcend their own belief as being an object, and the other (the second