Feminist theory is one of the major contemporary sociological theories, which analyzes the status of women and men in society with the purpose of using that knowledge to better women's lives. Feminist theorists have also started to question the differences between women, including how race, class, ethnicity, and age intersect with gender. Feminist theory is most concerned with giving a voice to women and highlighting the various ways women have contributed to society. There are four main types of feminist theory that attempt to explain the societal differences between men and women: Gender Differences: The gender difference perspective examines how women's location in, and experience of, social situations differ from men's. For example, cultural feminists look to the different values associated with womanhood and femininity as a reason why men and women experience the social world differently.
In order to build background knowledge to audiences, Michael Cramphorn first introduce how the gender different in psychological aspect. Michael highly supported Simon Baron-Cohen’s idea, which is about “Gender Different in brain” (Cramphron 148). He is a psychopathologist of University of Cambridge, and he indicated that different structure of brain between male and female result in primarily different personality and reaction of life. Even though Michael is not professional in this field, his objective and informative tone is persuasive for our readers to understand and believe the gender difference has existed when we at birth. For example, Michael indicated that “Gender difference caused by chromosome.
* * Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity? Yes, I think our concepts of gender and sex contribute quite a lot to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I think it has a lot to do with why we think certain jobs are for men and certain jobs are for women. For example, a woman’s job is taking care of the children while a man’s job is to work outside the
This song and its lyrics are mainly about bullying. The song is titled “at or with me” and the coarse of this song is “are they laughing at or with me” (Johnson). In the video Andy and a group of his friends are sitting at a table in the bar and laughing with one another as Jack continuously looks over to see what they are laughing at. This connects with his lyrics which are “are they laughing at or with me”. Another reason he is asking this is because during one of Andy’s Saturday Night Live skits they made fun of jack Johnson for be this “Mellow Man” meaning he is laid back and does not care about anything.
The author, Laurie Anderson did an amazing job on capturing the true aura and essences of high school life for the untypical teenager. Laurie Anderson actually based Melinda on herself and the environment she grew up in. Laurie Anderson wrote this novel to help teens like me understand its fine to be different and that we need to speak up for ourselves when we need to. Laurie Anderson wrote Speak in a way that Melinda and the other character grow as they progress throughout the book. The plot of Speak is quite unique compared to others books I’ve read; it includes minor plot twists that create a huge affect on the characters especially Melinda.
I think that the main point of the movie Girls Like Us was to show examples of how different lifestyles could have an impact on young girls growing up today. The documentary did a great job showing the girls at different important stages in their lives mainly going through high school so we got to see how strong their goals were at the beginning, and how they changed with time and maturity. It showed how family history and ethnic diversity has an important role in the lives of young girls. It was a good way to show how lifestyles in general impacted each of these girls’ futures in so many ways. In this movie Elements of structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic internationalism were definitely present.
Gatsby’s guests admire his Rolls – Royce, his marble swimming pool, his station-wagon and his “corps of caterers” the alliteration of this emphasizes how many caterers Gatsby has. The description of what Gatsby has prepared for the parties he holds shows conspicuous consumption. The repetition of the different types of alcohol Gatsby serves to his guests’ echoes that he is disobeying the law in order to have fun. Since prohibition had started in 1920 and The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 it had been going on for 5 years. “Most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.” This shows that he liked to have young women at his parties and that prohibition had been enforced for a long time.
Shakespeare’s characters establish identity through performing stereotyped roles of dominant masculinity and passive femininity. In light of Judith Butler’s take on gender theory, Katherine’s taming and her performative speech concluding the play is a dynamic representation of gender performance which is amplified since the discourse is enacted in a “play-within-a-play.”(Smith 289) The theatrical and dramatic metaphors in the play proliferate in performance because they offer a powerful method in conceptualizing how identities are constructed. Having a theatrical performance mock social performance through means of “wilful acting, conscious performances, and claims of truth.”(Smith 295) Literary theory presented by Judith Butler stands at the forefront of gay and lesbian studies due to her all encompassing integration of multidimensional aspects involved in the human interpretation of meaning. Much of her arguments are supported through the usage of Lacanian psychoanalysis, structural anthropological concepts developed by Claude Levi-Strauss, adding Derrida's understanding of speech-act theory, and numerous other literary and feminist theories. The way in which the normative sense of sex is conveyed in our social
A gender role is described by Conrad P Kottak as “The tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex” (2011:419). Kath Woodward has identified a gender role as being “The social attributes associated with being a woman or a man in a particular society” (2004:44). But what does that actually mean. From the day of our birth we are enculturated into a twofold identity classification that is reinforced not only by our
Compare And Contrast The Representation Of Gender In Two Media Texts With Reference To The Work Of One Or More Feminist Critic Media texts today represent gender, setting standards on society. Our ideas on what it is to be masculine and to be feminine could be said to be decided by what we perceive through the magazines, cinema and Television, as well as other mediums. Through trends in these outlets society has somewhat parodied the media, washing off on how we see ourselves and our peers, stereotyping the male and female gender. When cinema was in the public domain and the first films were shown it reflected society at the time. The male dominance and the female’s vulnerability.