However, not everyone agrees with the heavy stereotypes laid down by the social order such as male dominance and proper courting. Marie de France is one of these people. She depicts her views of gender expectations through literature. Within the poem Guigemar, Guigemar and his lady fulfill and contradict what would be considered as gender norms within society: female inferiority, traditional courtship, and male dominance. Marie de France does this to criticize and combat the societal expectations and inherent inequalities in Norman England.
True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender Men and women are equally valuable to society and everyone has their opinions on the qualities that lay within them. There is no right way to act like a man and there is no right way to act like a woman. Society has the biggest effect on genders and their characteristics. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid’s story specifically gives details about girls’ responsibilities. “Girl” explains how society comes into play when you’re a girl and the effect it has on you in a negative and positive way.
Feeling Emasculated In so many relationships in society black women wonder why their men are not faithful, or not committed to them, or go get a woman of a different race. The answer is right in front of their faces; they emasculate their men. They emasculate them to the point where they can’t take it anymore. Then they wonder why they don’t have a man. No one wants to put up with their controlling ways, bad attitudes and their feeling of thinking their better than their men.
Discuss the presentation of the character of Celie and how she functions in the novel. How successful do you think Celie is a viewpoint to portray Walker’s view of male/female relationships in the novel? The novel deals with sexism struggle both in America and Africa, where male dominance is a norm. Walker uses Celie as an instrument to show male/female relationships of the 20th Century. In the novel, Celie starts of as an abused, submissive wife, but is transformed into a confident and independent black woman, which goes against the ‘traditional’ values of that time.
You also see men, having the dominance in relationships from time to time, saying that they have the pants in the relationship. Basically, that they hold the say on what happens. It is stated in “The War on Men” that, “So if men today are slackers, and if they’re retreating from marriage on masse, women should look in the mirror and ask themselves what role they’ve played to bring about this transformation.” This shows that, females should stand up for themselves, and change the relationship for the better, that the male shouldn’t have all the dominance. Females should too have a say in this, and show that they have dominance in the relationship as well, since a relationship should be an equal say on both
Therefore men may be embarrassed or fear that they may not be taken seriously. Kirkwood (1993) argued that domestic violence causes psychological damage which includes low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and stress. Domestic violence against women by men is caused by the misuse of power and control within a male privilege. Male privilege tends to focus on an individual (mainly the wife) and maintains to keep the dominance of the female and the power of their children. Perpetrators of domestic violence choose to behave abusively to get what they want and gain control.
Both of these styles of music were influenced by sex, love, and by the way the men thought they had dominance over women. Throughout the Caribbean societies and music world, artists and composers would choose to write their songs about male-females relationships because it is a topic that they can relate to in everyday life. Many song artists especially Caribbean song artists express their emotions, or love in their songs because they it is the only way they know they can get their point across to a person. Caribbean artists like to feel like they are stronger than women that they have more dominance over women, because they can express their love for a woman through lyrics of a song that was written, instead of just expressing their feelings to their loved ones in person like women do. In bachata music, the artists usually express their love for a person through their music.
Module A: Comparison of Texts Individuals challenge the values that permeate time, in a manner that is relevant to their society. This rebellion is evident in William Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew and Gil Junger’s film 10 Things I Hate About You whereby Katherina and Kat initially disregard the social expectations for women of their context. The composers portray this comparably, using textual integrity so the women’s misunderstood, shrew-like behavior is suited to their culture and society. This in turn, provokes both characters to experience a transformation of self and their values. In The Taming of The Shrew, Katherina challenges the values and themes of courtship and marriage, dismissing the female etiquette when meeting her suitor.
Our minds have created justifications to alter these guidelines when they our actions do not measure up to the social norms. Susan Bordo’s essay, “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” focuses on the gender roles society has created while revealing the way the mind justifies a particular sexual way of life. Laura Kipnis’s essay, “Love’s Labors” addresses love and adultery. Kipnis addresses the common way of thinking of why and how cheating is so prevalent in today’s culture. Kipnis goes into detail about the impact love has on our way of thinking.
Marie Tougouma Ms.Scott English Composition 102 July 5, 2016 Music Impact On Black Women Music is a big part of our social and cultural life in the world. It will be used by singers to display society emotion by progress love, peace or to denounce society being. Different kind of music can be noticed like Soul, Hip-Hop, Rap, Reggae, Jazz and more. Since music propagates an educate message to reach their audience, hip-hop music has been associates with violent, misogynistic, imagery in spite of its tightly bound for male and female singers and their notable fan. The author writes this article for respond at Kevin Powell’s article “Notes of Hip Hop Head.” The article reaches black women.