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
Conflict Perspective assumes that social behavior is best understood in term of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, including housing, money, access to services and political representation. (Schaefer, 2013).In this case, feminist would note how much pressure they have received from society. These days, movies casting for actress does not only require their acting experiences, but also based on their look. It is clear for us to see that most of our actresses in movies look quite pretty. It might be called entertainment standard to serve audience's pleasure.
People get hurt and pained because prejudice. That influences their life and the conception has been rigidified. Sexual discrimination reflected in a society that has double standards between the males and female，and caste discrimination shows people get different treatment because their identity. First of all, this society that has double standards between the males and females at 1960s Italian. Taking this case, males are in the highest positions in Italian Society.
Hegemonic masculinity came into existence in specific circumstances and was actually open to historical change. (Connell, R.W. 1987) What we could argue then is that historically, the concept of hegemonic masculinity can change. It is an application of acts, the practice of masculinity which we consider in culture, so generally the most ‘accepted’ or ‘idealized’ sense of masculinity. I shall be looking at two novels to discuss the contestation of hegemonic masculinity, ‘The Wasp Factory’, Iain Banks and ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’, E.l James.
Taking place at a time of great civil unrest in America, as well as a place where the Gay community were particularly despised [2] . For decades the homosexual community of America had been abused, institutionalised, arrested and treated as mentally insane. So to truly understand the lasting impact of the Stonewell Riots on the gay liberation movement one must first understand the oppression and abuse felt by the LGBT community in those years before Stonewall. Since the words ‘homosexual’
Constant attacks on homosexuals and women show the battle between cultural differences in many of gangsta rappers. Gangsta rap is often known for its sexist lewd imagery. Weather its foul language or showing of guns in videos gangsta rap reflects a vicious lifestyle. It also portrays black relationships as nothing more than mere pleasure. Gangsta rappers refer to women as ho's and bitches often belittling black women to show how much they aren't needed in society.
Despite all these changes, the free- thinking, independent woman has proved to be a durable stereotype. The concept of the disobedient women that opposed any male authority was worked into many different adaptations of the original play and used in other texts. Even though slightly changed and modified through the ages to relate to different societies, the Kate character has survived. The “shrew” idea became a major challenge for any actress offered the role of Shakespeare's Kate and attempt to develop it in an appealing way to the audience of their time. The word shrew as used in the concept of Shakespeare's original play, means a woman with a violent, scolding, or nagging temperament (TCM, fact sheet).
In some cases gender roles can be altered in spite of society, were as a female inherits male behavior or a male goes outside of normality and engages in a relationship with another male rather than a female. An example of these situations maybe found in the poem The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn and in the short story The Smells of Home by Sandip Roy. For instance, the poem “The Willing Mistress” shows a switch between the male and female gender roles. The character in this poem is represented as a powerful, forward, and decisive woman. She knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to pursue it.
For over a century, women have been speaking about the double enslavement of black women and how not only are they handicapped on account of their sex, but they are mocked almost everywhere because of their race as well. In “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Deborah King illustrates how the dual discriminations of racism and sexism remain pervasive, and how class inequality compounds those oppressions. In the case of Pecola Breedlove, the protagonist of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, this triple jeopardy of race, gender, and class ultimately leave her feeling socially powerless in society. Pecola must suffer all the burdens of prejudice of having dark skin, as well as bear the additional burden of having to cope with white and black men because of her sex. The beauty standards of white Western culture, the sexual abuse of Pecola by her father, and Pecola’s low economic status have multiplicative effects on Pecola and all aid in her progressive alienation from society as well as her fall towards insanity.
In particular, it will focus on how dominant norms surrounding masculinity and femininity are encouraged. These norms suggest what is considered an acceptable male and female appearance. It will also focus in particular on gender norms which female attractiveness is above all else, while men are valued for their other characteristics. The following case study is on the analysis of women and the use anti-aging products. Growing old is a way of life, but for women in modern society it is a grim reality, the aging process cannot be stopped, but thanks to anti-aging adverts, it leaves the impression that the aging process can be slowed down.