Gender studies

How does gender limit our abilities to act? When we as a society categorize ourselves base on genders we limit our abilities to act politically and in our personal lives. In Julia Serrano’s piece “Why Nice Finish Last” Serano talks about rape culture, and stereotypes with our society. She has spoke and studied about transgender and queer issues. In Roxane Gay’s piece “Bad Feminist”, Gay talks about views on feminism in society, and what the meaning of a “bad feminist” is. Gay has her worked…

Introduction According to Froehlich (2011), 'social roles for men and women are often perceived to be pre-determined in the Early Modern period' (p.37). Elizabethan and Jacobean England was governed by a strict social order, and gender roles are one of the most notorious examples. Women in particular were imaged as predisposed to vices, sensitive and orderly. These ideas are explored in two dark tragedies, The Tragedy of Macbeth (1623) by William Shakespeare, and The Tragedy of the Duchess of…

The subversion of gender roles in Macbeth is what sets the play apart from other plays of its time. One of the main themes is that nothing is what it looks like on the outside, and the topic of gender is at the forefront. In an age when men were supposed to be strong, aggressive, and decisive, and women passive and subordinate, Shakespeare makes a submissive man and his dominant wife the two main anti-protagonists. Throughout the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth find themselves constantly…

It is possible to say in both novels, women experience mistreatment because of patriarchal societies that they live in. This is apparent in their treatment and weaker position in marriage and their lack of rights. The use of violence against women shows their powerlessness and inferiority to men. This can be seen in “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” through Tess’s own experience of marriage with Angel Clare. as women are seen to have a weaker position not only in society but also in marriage, this is…

As suggested by Sierra et al. (2015, p. 40), Princess Mononoke recreated some complex archetypes of female characters and their connection with nature. The portrayal of of San and Lady Eboshi ‘reflect subconscious anxieties about women in positions of power’. Napier (2001) also argued that Princess Mononoke film has had ambiguous archetypes and icons; ranging from the notion of the emperor’s characteristics to the traditional symbolism of feminism, to create a new vision of a Japan’s history.…

universal, god- given and natural which is denied by many theories and has explored the origin of patriarchy by radical feminist, social feminist. The origin of patriarch in South Asia was from the Brahmanical period – the division of caste , class gender slowly led to…

“Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Thought” by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson takes a disability studies approach to redefining how we think of identity in a feminist context. Written in 2002, this piece neatly falls into what could be classified as a staple of Third Wave Feminism, in that it takes a more intersectional approach, considering not only how disability factors in with an individual’s sense of self, but also how it interacts with other areas of a person’s life. Specifically,…

term “patriarchy” has been used to describe the social system of men holding the power and authority. Since the 1960s, feminist are working hard to spread the awareness of how patriarchy system related to the inequality treatment existing in both genders (Cranny, 2003). It is argued that different sectors in the world such as labour force, education, politics and more has been undergoing a domination of male, known as “hegemonic masculinity”. Since this phenomenon of hegemonic masculinity has…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss Women’s issues as revealed in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez Every culture has their own ‘norms’ or standards that defines them. Norms that may include certain problems that the certain culture has grown used to as this particular novel has shown readers internationally. Every culture has problems, in a way that makes a culture, a culture. The culture that is concealed in the lines of Chronicle of a Death Foretold starts in…

most shocking, poor gender representation. It follows Odysseus’s journey home to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope. Penelope is an interesting character in this story, especially in the third part of Simon Armitage’s translation. In the first two parts of the translation, readers get to know Penelope through her performance of a woman: poised, graceful, and caring. She shows a different side to her character that requires more analysis to grasp a better understanding of how gender is portrayed in…