Gender and Literature: A Systems StudyUniversity Press of America, 2001 - 396 pagini 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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... Psyche not to answer any questions about him that the sisters might put to her . Moreover , Psyche would soon have a child of her own , which shall be born a god if she kept her secret , but a mortal if she divulged it . The prospect of ...
... Psyche not to answer any questions about him that the sisters might put to her . Moreover , Psyche would soon have a child of her own , which shall be born a god if she kept her secret , but a mortal if she divulged it . The prospect of ...
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... Psyche herself lost the treasure she had received without earning it , and now she had to strive with patience and humility to regain what she no longer deserved . On the psychological level Psyche's plight seems to indicate that the ...
... Psyche herself lost the treasure she had received without earning it , and now she had to strive with patience and humility to regain what she no longer deserved . On the psychological level Psyche's plight seems to indicate that the ...
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... Psyche saw that she was openly and undisguisedly being sent to her death . She wanted to put an end to herself by jumping from a tower , but the tower broke into human speech , advising Psyche to enter the Underworld through one of the ...
... Psyche saw that she was openly and undisguisedly being sent to her death . She wanted to put an end to herself by jumping from a tower , but the tower broke into human speech , advising Psyche to enter the Underworld through one of the ...
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The Psyche Its Structure | 35 |
Psyche | 42 |
Phylogenetic Memory | 53 |
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