Androgyny

Popular music has been played a vital element in everyday life, including rock, country and pop music which similarly perpetuate gender stereotypes and sexuality in the society. Gender defines the sociological categorization of human being and their characteristics as manly, womanly, or by associated terms (Clayton, Herbert & Middleton, 2011). Gender stereotype refers to the personality characteristics the perceivers believe that it subjects to the activities by the specific groups of people…

The third layer primarily deals with the construction of identity based on gender and sexual preference, and is closely related to Quentin Crisp, whose character is of enormous relevance to the art piece’s message despite the fact that he only appears explicitly in the music video. Having already made the acquaintance of Crisp in 1985 during the filming of The Bride, Sting and he met several times in New York over the course of the production of “… Nothing like the sun” (Erwe 2011). One really…

homosexuality or recognizing erotic from homoerotic imagery. Furthermore, because advertisements are not strictly pornographic but present an abstraction on the human form, a portion of the advertisements message is left to the recipient’s imagination where androgyny and eroticism can coexist and fulfill the receiver’s specific desires. This applies both to advertisements featuring a single androgynous model or those featuring two or more wherein the receiver may choose to fabricate a…

coined some twenty years later. Foucault gives root to the social derivation of homosexuality believing that homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality, only “after it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul” [4]. The theorists believe that the homosexual had been an aberration, and had then become a species, justifying itself with a new…

In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or What You Will, femininity plays an essential role in the major themes of this drama. Femininity derives from the traits that people perceive of one another. Femininity poses questions like; ‘What does it mean to be female?’ or ‘What lengths do females have to take to be perceived in a likely standing as their male counterparts?’. Shakespeare’s idea of femininity plays a role in each of the themes which are; Love, Gender, and Deception. The main characters that…

Because every successful movement needs to recognize all differences, and define those differences to hold the truth for all the people, for individuals regardless of the ingroup or outgroup, the feminist movements must focus on authentic inclusion in order to avoid distortions of difference/experience,to promote diversity and intersectionality, and to be truly successful. Methods I began by reading a collection of essays by Audre Lorde in her 1984 book Sister Outsider, to sense an enunciated…

Combining the the visuality of Bowie’s Glam, it’s ostentatious androgyny and narcissism, and punk’s anti-establishment attitude allowed these gays kids an ego. Though Strange’s strict door policy was considered totalitarian by some, it meant that beyond those doors, ‘heteronormative’ societal norms were shunned. The club…

The Hippie era has come to end and the days of self awareness have arrived. Instead of focusing on love to all, many Americans were indulging in their own self pleasure. According to Alfred Kinsey’s research,” Americans sexual behavior deviated from their widely accepted norms” (Escoffier 1). Wilhelm Reich added to Kinsey’s research with the remark that he, “believed sexual repression overwhelmingly distorted psychological development “(Escoffier 1). To further societies receptivity of…

As far as women themselves, have come a long way in gaining equality. Although women are not exactly equal to men, they can play and take roles of men. There is always that saying “if he can do it, I can do it better. Women have fought for their rights in many things they are apart of today and for their beliefs in what they feel and think is right. They have fought for their oppression, to be equal to men and now have gained many opportunities in playing and being male roles. Women fighting…

Women in Ancient Greece lack the rights that the female gender have grown in to today. The men during this time are blatant about their sexism, expecting the women to remain submissive to their husbands, take care of the children and household duties, and be as modest as possible. There was no free-will involved as they were married off without a say and their lives consisted of them as the subservient wife. Dionysus changes this, taking the women as his worshipers, also known as his “Bacchae”.…