Therefore, this paper will analyze further the lyric of Beyonce’s song “If I Were a Boy” which responds to the gender issue in United States. This song is about the feeling of a girl when she wants to be a boy. The lyric is closely related to the gender issue because there are many phrases or sentence which represent the gender role of man. As Beate Krais (2006) stated that ‘the construct of the social role is, as is apparent in the use of the term “actor”, a specifically sociological variant of the paradigm of rules and norms as the mechanisms that transform individual action into social action” (Krais: 2006, p. 125). It indicates that the role of individual in social life is based on the social paradigm which constructs the action in society.
‘Literary approaches to the contestation of hegemonic masculinity continue to possess agency, despite the fact that literature no longer occupies a dominant position in the cultural sphere’ (West, 2000). Discuss how two core texts challenge hegemonic constructions of masculinity? The concept of hegemonic masculinity was first proposed during a field study of social inequality, the project provided empirical evidence of the existence of multiple hierarchies in gender construction. It was understood as a pattern of practice and not just a set of role expectations. It became distinguished from other masculinities, more so the subordinate masculinities of previous studies.
These ideas were then challenged in the 1990’s with third wave feminism and postfeminism, both of which are concerned with the mass media’s influence on our understanding of gender. The sex of a human is biologically determined, but our ideas of typical femininity and masculinity are socially and culturally informed and perceived through the mass media. Second wave feminist perspectives are all concerned with the problems of patriarchy and hold many different anti-patriarchal views. Radical feminism, a second wave perspective, focused its criticisms on the issue of pornography. Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist, claimed that pornography had a direct
In this case, feminism’s gender perspective was concerned with ensuring women’s contribution to the largely male-dominated discipline of international relations would no longer be ignored. Additionally and on a deeper level, adopting a gender perspective would also mean acknowledging that traditional concepts, theories and assumptions of understanding the world are gendered and masculine biased. In this essay, I will be analyzing specific tenets of feminism using Bryan Forbes’ 1975 science fiction thriller ‘The Stepford Wives’ based on Ira Levin’s 1972 novel of the same title. Firstly, I will give a brief plot summary of the film. This essay will then describe how certain scenes and interactions in the film, mirror that of the ever-sensitive relationship between feminists and international relations’ scholars.
Gender Identity refers to an individual’s appreciation of a sense of either maleness or femaleness, which is independent of actual biological gender (Money, 1994). Gender Role refers to everything that an individual engages in order to reveal their identity as being male or female (John Money, 1955). Journal Entry 4 -Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety is a sexual health promotion strategy in the United Kingdom. This activity makes use of various professionals including teachers, families and even churches in the promotion of favorable sexual
 A New Politics of Sexuality is written by June Jordan, an African American mother, who is also a bisexual woman in America today. In her piece she talks about her ideas about, and views on, sexuality and what it means to her. Jordan believes that the Politics of Sexuality is the most ancient and probably the most profound arena for human conflict. (Elwood-Farber, 118) When Jordan speaks about sexuality, she is not only speaking about gender. She also refers to the way gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, as well as women in general, deal with the struggle to fit into the social “norm” of how they should behave.
The section Gender, Sexuality and the law Lisa A. Crooms offers an alternative framework in which to analyze sex, gender and violence beyond the law’s current discourse and its “gender-based violence = male violence against women in heterosexual context” formulation. Rather than see gender-based violence as only involving presumptively female victims, this alternative analysis begins with the idea that virtually all violence is gendered. For almost 25 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been crafting a constitutional jurisprudence of sex and gender, central to which is the eliding of these two related, but distinguishable, concepts. The courts missteps in its construction of sex/gender and its accompanying analysis have particular implications
A major theme that has been discussed in the literary community is the homoeroticism in the play. When read contemporarily, it can be argued that there is intentional homoeroticism or homosexuality. The issue is complicated further when one takes into account the way sexuality was viewed in the time the play was originally written and performed. Before delving into the relationships in The Twelfth Night, one must first examine the way that sex, sexuality, and gender were thought of and portrayed in Renaissance England. In his honors thesis, Leigh Bullion describes it perfectly: Sexuality in the early modern period was regarded very differently than it is in our culture.
Courtney Lubrano Ms. Stoudenroth Com-051 Journal 4 21, July 2013 Borneman, John and Laurie Kain Hart, argue in their article, “An Elastic Institution” for the right to same sex marriages. They express in the article, “marriage, in other words, is not only diverse across cultures but also dynamic and changing in Americas own history.” Borneman and Hart go onto argue that to secure a place of a child in the social order doesn’t necessarily need to be practiced by a man and a woman but from socially approved form of marriage (5). They also say that the identity to children “last name” is extraordinarily diverse. For example, children that are adopted will take on the name of the adoptive parent and children taking on the last name of the mother (4). To conclude Borneman and Hart explains, “While the model of marriage is arguably heterosexual, the practice of marriage is not.” In O’Brien, Breda’s article, “Further dilution of marriage could have dire results,” she will argue against same sex marriages and that because of heterosexuals we are facing the erosion of what marriage used to stand for (8).
ntroduction The theme I chose to write about for my paper was race/ethnicity. For the literary works, I will compare and contrast “What It's Like To Be A Black Girl” by Patricia Smith who is African-American and “Child Of The Americas” by Aurora Morales who is Latino. Being born in America, an important fact for both because minorities in the United States have experienced racism and prejudice for years compared to other countries. The stories tell about two young women who are both from different cultures and beliefs. The poems deal with racism ans discrimination.