The Second Sex

offspring.” In order to seek for a mate, Puts tells us that women were competing to be the most attractive ones because more physically attractive women demand greater male investment and other direct and indirect benefits. Miller et al explain: “The sex that invests less in offspring (typically males, who minimally invest sperm, compelred with females, who minimally invest eggs, gestation, lactation and other care) should devote proportionately more mating effort to short-term…

Sex was ubiquitous. Hollywood blondes Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Masfield were the sex icons. Growth of male magazines Playboy and Esquire offered ostentatious/pretentious sexuality epitomized/personified by Bettie Page-‘the pin-up queen of the universe and her explicit pictures led to anti-ponographic hearings of 1955 (Halliwell 42). Double image of women as a devoted housewife and glamorous diva was less a paradox than a duality in the 1950s. Media interest in the body shape/physique…

Sex verification in women’s athletic events has been heavily criticized by many since the beginning of Olympic competitions. In April 2011, new policies to regulate who could and could compete as women in the Olympics were enacted before the 2012 Olympics in London. These policies focus on female athletes, often intersex women, with naturally elevated androgen levels, a phenomenon known as hyperandrogenism. Since doping with testosterone is known to increase athletic performance, the policies…

The last essay question, number seven, is contained in Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics, on page 309 in Political Ideologies (Festenstein and Kenny). In an attempt to answer, and prove sex is a status category with political implications, Millet described, in what, amounted to a pioneering effort on her part (P.I. p. 309). The feministic view of sexual politics, and the power members of the male gender held over females. It is the power relationship, Millet attempts to explain politics and…

Gender Stereotypes in She’s the Man The movie She’s the Man can be described as a feminist film without it actually referencing to feminism. This movie is based off of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and in the movie it has a girl dress up as her twin brother to make it on a soccer team to prove she is just as good as the boys. The scene that causes the main character, Viola Davis, to dress up as her twin brother, is when her girls’ soccer team was cut from the school’s program because not…

improvement, create new identities and enter male-dominated areas. After the implementation of Title IX, written by U.S Representative Patsy Mink and passed by Congress in 1972 which states that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in,…

When we are born, we are assigned our biological sex and from then on, we are already prescribed a particular course of development. The gender roles that are established as influenced by the patriarchy that exists today. When the doctors see the formation of a penis and label the individual a male, the doctor has stated that male is expected to the main contributor of his household. He is supposed to hid his emotions and be aggressive to establish his dominance. When a doctor acknowledges the…

motherhood and even after the help “[she] was tardy… and did little cleaning and [only] some inept cooking” (21). The duties that Mary Dempster is failing to complete are very stereotypical female jobs and are even described as being strictly feminine. The second incident to which female responsibilities are brought up are when Amasa Dempster is humiliated in the town for “looking after the domestic affairs” (21) in which his wife is supposed to be completing. Consequently, the village “grew…

Zayra Calderon once said, “You have to have the drive to tackle something a little bit bigger than you”(Ross 129). Sex-integrated sports means that sports teams are made up of both genders. Many people believe it is too dangerous physically and socially for girls to participate in boy sports. Often times there are girls who have a passion for sports and an athletic ability that deserves to be shown off, even if it means playing with the boys. Girls deserve the equal opportunity to play among the…

Structural functionalism, theorizes that as a whole society regulates the functions of its members based solely on the needs of the organization. This can be related to many different types of environments for instance, sports. Sports teams such football are set up around the needs of the team, different positions are required throughout the structure of the game play for proper function; quarterbacks are needed to lead the team and plan the movement of the ball in forward progression, linemen…