Female hysteria

In Sophocles’ play Antigone, there is a constant battle between males and females in society. Sophocles’ use of character analogy and context of the play help the reader understand the breach between males and females. The setting of this literary work was believed to written during 441 B.C. in Athens, Greece when it was believed that men had social superiority over women. Antigone, the protagonist, played a strong, independent woman who Creon, the new king of Thebes and antagonist, had trouble…

In an attempt to give body meaning, Irigaray refuses to accept the binary of the sexed body. Patriarchy views the male and female body within a constant framework. Time-periods, cultures, and traditions shape the body with different representations. Irigaray wants the body removed from its normative constraints of patriarchy. This paper consists of Irigaray’s theory while also comparing and contrasting it to other theorists including Bartky, Anzaldua, and Daly. Luce Irigaray is a well-known…

When I hear the word foot binding, the first thing I think of is pain and bondage. Foot binding is the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep their feet as small as possible. Foot binding began in the Shang Dynasty about 1500-1000 B.C. This custom became popular during the Ming Ch’ing eras after 1368. The process of foot binding began at the age of five. Mothers were breaking their daughter’s feet in order for them to marry a good husband. According to the principles…

Before they used sex appeal to get the females to make their boyfriends/husbands to purchase their product, but now this commercial seems to be appealing to fathers and young adolescent boys. Throughout the commercial the audience witness many situations that they may have experienced at least…

and were interested in love and wine. Their one means to power was their beauty. In the play, Aristophanes presents Lysistrata as a powerful female character, however in reality her power is obtained because of the masculine role she exemplifies. At the beginning of the play, Lysistrata right away shows masculine features by discussing the war, something females…

expected outcome of females across all levels of society, including the non-royal elite. Although their is no archaeological evidence in the New Kingdom of marriage associations, Demotic documents from later periods, suggest any type of formal ceremony of marriage or the binding of a man and woman. Reflecting marriage itself to be quite informal through documentation of agreements of property ownerships, and insurance of protection and support that is provided for the female. Thus suggesting…

were given a gender identity and thought how to follow gender roles to basically fit with society’s expectations. If a baby is born a male, he is expected to act masculine and be tough, independent, rough, logical, dominant etc. If a baby is born a female, she is expected to act feminine and be gentle, dependent, calm, emotional, submissive, etc. We are taught how to act, talk and behave depending on our gender. If people don’t follow these norms, in most cases they are discriminated .…

objectively forming scientific theories, but upon further inspection it is clear to see that may scientists incorporate gendered biases into their findings. There is an entire scientific field dedicated to determining what biologically separates males and females, and what behaviorally separates men and women, generally focused on defining which group is superior. This type of science restricts findings to a binary category, forcing certain findings into categories they most likely do not…

on the child’s biological sex, which is thus, based on the child’s sex chromosomes and gonads, or sex glands. Even when a child is born as an intersex baby, without clear biological male or female parts, doctors will most often perform surgeries to make…

Halloween is a time where people can legally and normatively violate social norms, that are typically most rigid for women, based on how they should act, think, and appear, in order to maintain skewed power dynamics that makes them inferior, and thus, controlled by men and their own selfish objectives. While there are indeed gendered expectations about how men and women should dress even on a day like Halloween, that although defies social norms, fails to defy gender norms, it is problematic to…