Gender and Literature: A Systems StudyUniversity Press of America, 2001 - 396 Seiten Gender and Literature: A Systems Study addresses the notion of gender as a "social construct," and presents evolutionary reasons for human psycho-behavioral differentiation along the lines of sexual dimorphism of the reproductive and the related functions, which produce the main genders of femininity and masculinity, corresponding roughly with the functions of procreation and competition, respectively. These two gender-oriented poles of human behavior are intermingled in the individual mind to produce a mixture of gender traits that underlie personality and behavior. A statistical model of the overlap of the masculine and feminine traits generates eight specific gender types: the feminine woman, the womanly women, the womanly man, the androgynous man, the androgynous woman, the manly man, the manly woman, and the masculine man. Characteristics of each type are offered together with examples from a wide range of literary texts. |
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... male animals results in the elimination of aggressiveness and temper usually associated with maleness ( which was precisely the reason for castrating the male animals in the first place ) . Early research on animal behavior has also ...
... male animals results in the elimination of aggressiveness and temper usually associated with maleness ( which was precisely the reason for castrating the male animals in the first place ) . Early research on animal behavior has also ...
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... male discourse conducted within exclusively male groups , often in the context of hunting and warfare , should be dominated by curt and impersonal commands , instructions , and prohibitions , aimed at consolidating the group in the ...
... male discourse conducted within exclusively male groups , often in the context of hunting and warfare , should be dominated by curt and impersonal commands , instructions , and prohibitions , aimed at consolidating the group in the ...
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... male terms in the world of men . The very scope of traditional male power has proved self- defeating , for , since culture is largely a masculine creation , the increasing education of women has tended to reinforce the male element ...
... male terms in the world of men . The very scope of traditional male power has proved self- defeating , for , since culture is largely a masculine creation , the increasing education of women has tended to reinforce the male element ...
Inhalt
The Psyche Its Structure | 35 |
Psyche | 42 |
Phylogenetic Memory | 53 |
Urheberrecht | |
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accepted adaptation androgynous appearance attraction behavior biological Bloom body called caused character complete corresponding critics cultural death dependence described desire determined dominated dynamic elements emotions endodynamic endostatic energy environment Erec erotic especially example existence exodynamic exostatic experience fact feelings female feminine figure function gender gives hand Heracles human husband identity important individual initiation interactions interest involved King knight Lady less literary living London Macbeth male manly marriage masculine means mind nature needs never observed one's opposite organism personality physical play political position possible practical present principle protection Psyche psychological reaction reasons referring relations relationship represented respect responses result role rules sense sexual Shakespeare situations social society static symbolic theory things traditional turn types unconscious understanding University usually wife Wilde woman womanly women young
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Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies Piotr Sadowski Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |