Female hysteria

victor shollenberger Sexual fluidity and attraction is a hard subject to touch on. This idea is very new in the grand scheme of things. So since it is such a new idea, people don’t really know where to fall with this new idea. There are so many little niches for all different types of people. The people who this article is about also come from all walks of life. So to say it simply people are confused on what to say to people of this ideology, and on how to react to this conversation of sexual…

Bordo starts off the article by discussing the general societal trends that could push women into having eating disorders such as anorexia. Western culture is obsessed with being thin and being fat is seen as the worst possible situation to be in. one reason for this is that the body is one of the easiest facets of someone’s life to control. One cannot control if their mail gets lost of if there is extra traffic on their way to work but one can control the amount of food they eat. Women impacted…

According to Woolf, who advocates the idea of androgenism in a Room of His Own, especially in the impossibility of writing as a single genus, "It is murderous to be male and female in an innocent and simple manner; the person must be masculine-woman or feminine-male. " Woolf called the women to kill the "angel in the house," saying that women must have their own room to write. In this way, liberal feminism seems to have spoken…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a critique of the gender roles prevalent at the time it was written. The female protagonist is living in the middle of a patriarchal society and is not willing to accept these societal structures. Additionally, it criticizes the Rest Cure, which was a common treatment for women at that time. Instead of taking the pain of women serious, it was often just trivialized as hysteria and treated with resting. However, the narrator of the short story does not want to be treated…

There’s no escaping the fairy tale in popular culture; a woman trapped under duress, awaiting for a man to rescue her. It’s an archetype that transcends time and continent, but whether it’s approach to gender roles is outdated is an entirely different question. Louise Bourgeois was fascinated with this concept, due to her parents tumultuous relationship and the trauma surrounding identity that pursued her throughout her life. One of the pieces that highlighted the existence of gender roles in…

their behaviors are used as a defense against men. Women’s clinging behavior is one defensive behavior that Firestone mentions. Firestone states, “Women’s ‘clinging’ behavior is required by the objective social situation. The female response to such a situation of male hysteria at any prospect of mutual commitment was the development of subtle methods of manipulation, to force as much commitment as could be forced from men.” Because men refuse to show the same commitment to women that women…

The novel The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf focuses highly on feminism in today’s times. Throughout the novel the author describes different situations in which so many women are stereotypically looked upon. Many women think that the real meaning of beauty is what is shown on television. Many women disregard their opinions and instead mold it into the views of others. The author argues that some women are being victims by; work, media, religion, sex, violence, and hunger. Beauty was once ago seen as…

Consequently, Daisy is captured, brutally tortured and raped as a result. Escaping male rule leads to a deeper aftermath. “The Filipino woman then became subordinate to a male figure: her father before marriage, her husband after marriage”.(35-36) Filipino females in commonwealth have a lesser value of social class before any man in this country. Daisy’s power came about from the publicity she gain as a beauty pageant winner. This status drawn Malcolm to Daisy like a moth to a flame. Malcolm no…

In the beginning, when the wife of Udo is killed, it creates a masculinist hysteria, for, she is the “daughter of Umuofia” – showing how women’s bodies become vessels of community honour. (Achebe 9) There is a deliberate silencing of how the faceless, nameless woman is killed. A woman is just the private property of man, and her…

In society, people are expected to look and act a certain way depending on if they are male or female. The physical differences of the body that helps determine if someone is male or female are known as a person’s sex. While a person’s sex focuses more on telling a woman and man apart physically, gender is what a person concentrates on more when determining the type of behavior that is appropriate for each sex. An example of gender is the expectation of men being masculine while women are…