Grammatical gender

Systems of Privilege and Inequality With an over arching theme of oppression, chapter two seeks to explore the different intersections of privilege, or lack thereof, as well at the effects in current society. “Towards a New Vision” by Patricia Hill Collin, “White Privilege and Male Privilege” by Peggy McIntosh, and “There is No Hierarchy of Oppression”, by Audre Lord all sought to end the belief that oppression only happens to one group of people and that oppression should be ranked.…

Gender in the Bigger Picture As a commentary on the social system of the late 1930’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston truly reflects the norms of the time period in an accurate manner. Hurston was heavily impacted by the traditions and folklores of the African American culture, which are reflected within the ideals of the novel. From the desire to create an individual culture to the relentless search for love, Hurston includes elements that she discovered as she travelled and…

The Benefits of Single Sex Education: Attended Conference Imagine attending a school full of people the same gender as you. In the classroom, during lunch and even during class breaks you are constantly surrounded by boys or girls. This is an example of what single sex education is like. Single sex education is when males and females are placed in separate classrooms, buildings or schools. This educational style took prominence during the late 18th century across the globe. However, in countries…

Women and Gender Studies is a discipline that primarily focuses on the relationship of womyn, womyn subjects, and contextualizes their relationship to the world. It has its roots in feminist activism and continuous to teach within this framework. “The binary between men and women seemed not only to be a presupposition within feminist work, but was elevated to the theological status of the ‘irrefutable’ within some feminism” (Kushamiro, 2000) What occurs within this framework is that it…

Unlike in some developing countries, there is no strong gender preference for male or female offspring in !Kung society. When Nisa’s mother gave birth to Nisa’s little brother, she told Nisa that she would kill him because she thought Nisa was too small and to young to be weaned. When Nisa ran back to the village…

Chosen Primary Identity Group My chosen primary identity group is being a male. To me, this is different than being a man due to societal standards of what a “man” is like. The male population is very interesting to me because even though they seem to be at the top of the food chain, they face many difficulties just as women do. I am positive that underneath that tough masculine physique plenty of concerns are at play. As a feminist, parts of me hate the male population for sexualizing and…

During the film Fury, which take place in the midst of one of the most gruesome periods in human history, Norman who has only been in the Army for eight weeks and is trained as a typist, must gear up and become a tank crewman. He’s portrayed as un-masculine as he is belittled by his crewman both for his lack of experience and for his reluctance to kill Germans. Throughout the film he transitions from boyhood to manhood through the completion of manhood acts and homosocial interaction, including…

Vampires, werewolves, and monsters of all kinds have been prevalent in the horror genre, but the monstrous-feminine is comparably different. Whereas male monsters shock and terrify the audience through violence and bodily transformations, the female monster is horrifying in relation to her sexuality. The horror genre has frequently perpetuated patriarchal ideologies with scenes objectifying women using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film…

Secondly, in order to show how gender inequality is harmful to society, I will point out its dangers. Some people think that pursuing gender equality is harmful to women. “Feminism Has Harmed Women by Eliminating Natural Gender Roles”, by Nicole M. Kooistra states that “Women have bought into a feminist mystique that has left them more alone and conflicted in their pursuit of fulfillment than ever before.” This mentality that women cannot fulfil themselves unless they get married, have children,…

In fact from the beginning we are characterized based on gender. In Nora Ephron’s essay “A Few Words About Breasts” she agrees stating,“we were all tyrannized by a rigid set of rules that supposedly determined whether we were boys or girls”. To put in another way men are usually the breadwinners in the world.…