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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... biological sex determines automatically one's inherent masculine character , just as biological femaleness similarly determines one's feminine character . The usual consequence of this rigid position is that any observable transsexual ...
... biological sex determines automatically one's inherent masculine character , just as biological femaleness similarly determines one's feminine character . The usual consequence of this rigid position is that any observable transsexual ...
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... biological map , by its insistence on gender as " a social construct that mediates another social construct of biology . " ,, 4 It would appear that the third of the mentioned positions , that allowing for the complexity and subtlety of ...
... biological map , by its insistence on gender as " a social construct that mediates another social construct of biology . " ,, 4 It would appear that the third of the mentioned positions , that allowing for the complexity and subtlety of ...
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... biological sex . For example , people for centuries have observed how castration of farm and domestic male animals results in the elimination of aggressiveness and temper usually associated with maleness ( which was precisely the reason ...
... biological sex . For example , people for centuries have observed how castration of farm and domestic male animals results in the elimination of aggressiveness and temper usually associated with maleness ( which was precisely the reason ...
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