Femininity

Jean Kilbourne’s documentary “Killing Us Softly” and article “The More You Subtract, the More You Add” and Susannah Stern’s article “All I Really Needed to Know (About Beauty) I Learned by Kindergarten” shows that ads only sell products and not ideas. But behind the rose-tinted glass, ads show that women are being labeled by marketers. This leads to stereotyping and generalizations of women. When something becomes generalized by the population it is automatically accepted as the truth. Labels on…

historically utilized as a foundation in feminist theory as it illustrates a mantra unifying women in a movement against honing their individuality. In other words, the speaker is encouraging the theme of celebrating the ever-changing elements of femininity rather than refining them. Additional oppressive parallels such as “an impossible highway” and “a burning house” further the speakers employment of rhetoric figures within the element of analogy. This technique is beneficial as it reveals the…

Traditionally, society has implemented the gender binary of male/female. This binary stays constant due to the power society places in the concept. The details of the separate categories may change a little, but the binary has stayed in place. “Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts,” (“Gender” 2552). Different portrayals of gender change how the society views the binary but never is the binary completely…

Charming Feminine Tattoos – Delicate Designs Full of Meaning Women want to feel pretty and feminine and those who love tattoos want their artwork to reflect the same thing. But the question is - what makes a feminine tattoo? There are three components to a womanly design. These are subject matter, placement, and color. For example, a woman and a man may both choose to have a similar tattoo but to make hers more feminine the woman may add girly touches and pretty colors to hers. While the man…

many aspects of our society even extend to sports. Basketball is not an easy sport and it takes a lot of power and strength. As sports commentators refer to these women with the general terms girls or young ladies, they are trying to reinforce the femininity of these women (157), which establishes a dangerous precedent. The sports world sees women as weak and not as athletes. In our society, people do not take the WNBA as seriously as the NBA. People see it as a joke and not a grounded…

Voicing the Voiceless: Subaltern Female Identity in Mahasweta Devi’s Standayani Dr.Rupali Sharma Lecturer in English, GCW, Udhampur Email id- rupalisharmaju@gmail.com Contact No.- 07298115353 When we talk about position and identity us different email as strong mode of privileged and marginalized oppressor and oppressed, or ruler and subject. But, we could find those people who are not recognized in any part of human world with their level of consciousness and unheard voices. It is the issue of…

According to the editor’s notes of Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondol, the story of “Albion and Marina” was Charlotte Brontë’s first love story (510-11). While the piece does contain many of the elements of a pastoral romance, what is more intriguing is the secondary note: “[The characters may have been] possibly influenced by a recent reading by Charlotte of her father’s didactic love story, The Maid of Killarney, or Albion and Flora” (510-11). Viewing the text through a didactic lens not…

Manbeth Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare, deals with a byronic hero’s violent attempts to gain control of his fate and his struggle with the weight and repercussions of those actions. Although a prophecy from a set of witches provides milestones of the play, it also serves as a catalyst for Macbeth’s slew of murders and quest for power. While fate and madness are large themes in this play, the question of manliness and attempt to seize it serves not only as many character’s mortal flaw,…

Being Irresistable This is chapter is going to cover the iressitability factor when attracting Mr. Right. It is important to give you some advice and pointers on how to totally become iressitable when you finally meet him. Even though you have Mr. Right in the palm of your hands already, you still need some attraction benefit to bring him along full circle. You and Mr. Right is going to be together forever, so you need to bring some spice into the relationship to it keep alive. After you…

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens the female characters of Miss Havisham and Mrs. Joe embodied rebellious female figures that deny women’s prescribed behavior at home in the society of Victorian era. The two female characters depict vivid and determining roles that refuse motherhood, marriage and self-sacrifice in different ways, but the outcome of their denial is quiet equal: both of them are punished for the refusal of their expected maternal roles in drastic, violent ways. In the…