Copyright © The British Psychological Society Reproduction in any form (including the internet) is prohibited without prior permission from the Society 579 British Journal of Social Psychology (2006)‚ 45‚ 579–597 q 2006 The British Psychological Society The British Psychological Society www.bpsjournals.co.uk The influence of biological sex‚ sexuality and gender role on interpersonal distance David Uzzell1* and Nathalie Horne2 1 2 Department of Psychology‚ University of Surrey‚ UK
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Showalter‚ Chopin’s stories and other feminist writers of the time‚ were written during a period in which women writers were able to “reject the accommodating postures of femininity and to use literature to dramatize the ordeals of wronged womanhood.” Do you think Chopin’s and/or Gilman’s stories reject the “postures of femininity”? What “ordeals of wronged womanhood” are being dramatized in these stories? The events of American history are very much connected
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Simplicity and Femininity in Modern Fashion; Defined By Minimalism CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Outline of the Study Modern Fashion is an industry that is dominating other industries and growing into a large collection of artists who come together to present the world with their art‚ in the form of unique and extraordinary designs and ideas. The fashion industry gained acceleration in the second half of the 1900s‚ when different designers came forth with their extraordinary work and their contributions
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Kira Obermeier Intro to Women ’s Studies December 15‚ 2005 Final Paper But Was She Really Lucky? " but I had begun to notice that I was now on the other side of something they could not understand. I didn ’t understand it myself." And so begins the quest for reason and explanation in the case of Alice Sebold ’s rape. As she delves further and further into her story we can find many things discussed in the course of our semester in this class. Why was she raped? Why did her family and
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present king to fulfill his destiny. Deciding to put aside her natural femininity‚ she goes on planning the necessary killing and screams‚ “You spirits / that tend on mortal thoughts‚ unsex me here‚ / and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / of direst cruelty” (1.5.38-41). Judging from this statement said to encourage her evil thoughts‚ Lady Macbeth is wishing that spirits or the supernatural come and take away her femininity and replace it with cruelness or‚ in her mind‚ manliness. Later on
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hospital ward is one of sexual repression and inhibition. This is exemplified in the Big Nurse as well as in Nurse Pilbow‚ who is frightened of the patients’ sexuality. It is frequently emphasized that the Big Nurse has large breasts‚ the mark of her femininity‚ but she tries to conceal them. Everything about her and the ward is sterile‚ cold‚ and lifeless‚ from the Big Nurse’s manner down to the white starched uniforms of the staff. The first thing that McMurphy notices about the ward is that the Big
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artificial- done by the society: male and female have to have different appearance and behavior. Lorber claims that‚ “Individuals are born sexed‚ but not gendered‚ and they have to be masculine or feminine” (57). So‚ for separate persons masculinity or femininity is their individuality. Throughout her writing‚ she states that‚ sex is biological characteristics that we have from our birth and gender is are some characteristics that we form to identify our sex and when sex is identified through gender‚ social
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Marshall Article Summary Elizabeth Marshall‚ an associate professor of education at Simon Fraser University‚ contends in her article “Borderline Girlhoods: Mental Illness‚ Adolescence‚ and Femininity in Girl‚ Interrupted‚ that Susanna Kaysen’s popular memoir is an accurate depiction of the characteristics which mark female adolescence. Marshall points out that the adolescent time period for a girl is defined by “historically and culturally bound gendered pedagogies” (118). It has become normal
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Sex is more direct‚ if you have male parts‚ then you are male but if you have female parts you are female. How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Gender and sex are the descriptions of the concepts of masculinity and femininity. If we indicate that we are the gender of female then we are indicating that we act femainine such as paint our nails or use make up. But if we are indicating that we are the sex of male then this means
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The Great Gatsby is a magnificently written story about the loss of love‚ the problems of American wealth‚ and the reality of life. With these themes in mind‚ it is important to remember that in our complex reality‚ not all men are only sexually attracted to women as some would commonly assume. The character of Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby can be characterized as sexually ambiguous and emotionally insecure. On the one hand‚ Nick Carraway is a person who came from an upper
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