Androgyny

Chronicling the fate of the House of Atreus - a bloodline destined to beget suffering and bleed until it is bled dry - the closing moments of Aeschylus’ Oresteia depict, more optimistically, the very best of what Aeschylus hoped society could be. Yet to ignore the issues of gender and sexuality - the binary opposition and conflicting gendering of its two female ‘heroines’ and their subsequent inversion of societal norms, for example - is to confine the text and its characters unnecessarily. It…

feminists were left in confusion and anger when Allen Jones called himself a feminist, while others viewed his artwork as a representation of female sexuality. Allen Jones’ controversial sculptures document a sexual culture and his paintings blend androgyny, resulting in a representation of equality…

Both Some Like It Hot and White Chicks incorporates the idea of androgyny, simultaneously being a male and female, as Brandon French describes (On the Verge of Revolt, 138). For example, the main characters’ transformation as women show that masculinity and femininity exist as a “sliding scale”. In Some Like It Hot, masculinity…

According to Robert Kimbrough in “Androgyny Seen Through Shakespeare’s Disguise,” he writes, “[by] refer[ing] vividly and amusedly to male characteristics, organic as well as behavioral...reinforce[s] the dramatic illusion that they are so much women that they must make the conscious efforts…

In a nation that is characterized by a strong survivalist orientation, all residents may be less likely to tolerate attitudes and behaviors that deviate from the societal norm. In a nation that is characterized by such notion, majority of its residents, for example Muslims in Muslim nations, tend to have views against homosexuality. Homosexuality is not viewed as a societal norm and not falling into the gender binary views. It’s the religious leaders from these nations that are more likely to…

Is fashion based upon gender roles and culture? Does it really matter on the way you dress? Well fashion is different in many ways. In many countries fashion is based on culture. Fashion is expressed in the way a person is dressed in public. Gender roles and culture has an effect on fashion. Fashion is influenced in our life styles. As time has passed by in American culture, it has changed in many ways. In the past decades, students used to dress formally to go to class, but now students have…

The rise of Queen Hatshepsut, the woman who became the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. Her reign was said to be the longest of any other woman before and after her. Not only did she lead her country for years but it flourished. This paper will go through Queen Hatshepsut the woman, from queen to pharaoh, and obliterated from history. Before she was the considered the greatest women in history, Queen Hatshepsut was just an ordinary woman and daughter of a king. Queen Hatshepsut reigned…

Thawing the Snow Queen; Feminism in Science Fiction Here’s the truth, women hate being society’s puppet; so Joan D. Vinge snipped her strings in the novel The Snow Queen. This author made Science Fiction into a tool. The genre allows controversial issues to be stripped and placed into a different setting; it probes the reader to reflect on his or her own beliefs--maybe even challenge those perceptions. Which is why Feminism could ripen under the pages of its wings. That ideology of equality…

In the contemporary approach to literature and culture there is an opening of a new way of thinking about old concept by rethinking of sex, gender and sexuality. It assumes that sexual identity is fluid not fixed and critiques gender and sexuality. Sex and gender do not mean the same. Sex is the biological or anatomical construction that defines between the male and the female. Gender is often regarded to be the natural or innate expression of biological sex. A female is gendered feminine and a…

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