Women in Ancient Art Women are the foundations of life. ... Towards the end of the Romantic period, a group of seven artists sometimes called the "Last Romantics" began a style of art of romantic art that followed Raphael, who was considered to have perfected art in itself. ... In the 18th century, art took a new turn. ... Modern art requires its audience to observe carefully in order to get some facts about the artist, his intentions, and his environment, before forming judgments about the work. ... The images of women in art have changed from art movement to art movement, reflecting socia...

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As quoted by Terry Eagleton in "Marxism and Literary Criticism:" "superstructure" are certain forms of law and politics, a certain kind of state, whose essential function is to legitimate the power of the social class which owns the means of economic production, it also consists of certain "definite forms of social consciousness" which is what Marxism designates as ideology. ... It is a form of the domination that is set for men over women. ... Terry Eagleton writes of the reflection of the experience, "art does more than just passively reflect that experience. ...

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John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," examines the role of the female body in art. Although written in 1972, Berger's third essay, which focuses on nudity in art (45), serves as a base for a controversial topic in 2015. ... But if Berger's references to classic art were replaced with modern-day advertisements, the message is clear. ... "A visual association may be made between some product, often alcohol, and the female form. ... Berger does an excellent job explaining the role women had in art. ...

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For centuries there has been a struggle between men and woman in the literary community and this struggle has manifested itself in the fact that prior to the twentieth century women did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. ... These are only but a few of the first woman writers who, through their strong will and courageous stands against the male oriented culture of the day, eventually formed the tradition of women writers that exists today. In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen hundreds came the strength of ...

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While this is an extreme example, other concepts that have been propagated, such the idea that boys are better at math or girls are better at art, are further examples of the harm caused by the lack of knowledge on this subject matter. ... Since 2001's legislation legalizing single-sex education, many countries are implementing this form of education. ... Sax provides some highlights in his book that are aimed at teachers, primarily concerning how to talk to children about drugs and getting them excited in math and art. ... Kanovsky inadvertently leads a young male student to think he i...

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This also shows that there was interaction between the communities and they most likely shared same cultural influences such as art and trade. ... The pronounced female formations depicted art and a symbol of fertility and productivity of society especially female gender. ... She is a symbol of natural femaleness, of unrestrained female power, which the Barbie doll in the form of "civilization," later pursued to restrict and control. ... In the same society, other female members were not as reliant on the illustration of the Willendorf, figurine hence the art was attempting to show diverse ro...

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What is best about the painting is the suggestion of the feminine form in the lower part of the right-hand figure. ... This form of expression reaches its height in a painting which ranks with the reclining Venuses of Georgiana and Titian and Velasquez. ... All great art depends on a heightening of effect. ... It is not generally recognized how close we come in this work to the style of "Guernica" both in its depiction of the human form and its color. The human form has been progressively dismantled since the "Self-Portrait" of 1907 and here a balance has been found between the realistic and t...

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Some evidence was found that males preferred group interaction more than females and that males form larger play groups than females. ... The subjects were observed in three different play areas: art (drawing, pasting, and pain...

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Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media, constitutes an eroticizing of sexual inequality - as opposed to merely a celebrating of female sexuality - because it implicitly imposes a male perspective on the definition of female sexuality. ... Nearly one-tenth of young American women and one...

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"The first type of essentialism that can be found in this area [music and gender] is the idea that men and women 'express' some essential masculine or feminine forms of sexuality. ... One of the earliest attempts to start theorising the relationship between rock music and sexuality can be found in an essay written by Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie (1978), in which they argued that rock operated as a form of sexual expression and as a form of sexual control. Frith and McRobbie declared that, in terms of 'control and production, rock is a male form' (1978: 5). ... An...

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It has been thought that children learn more efficiently and gain more knowledge through play-based activities such as dramatic play, art, and social games. ... Socio-dramatic play or group of fantasy play is the most important form of play during this developmental stage. ... They are better able to develop their abstract thinking by playing out the roles and recreating the pictures they formed in their minds. ... Preschoolers are able to develop more elaborate fantasy play and sustain it by forming friendships within the group, cooperate with their peers, learn to control their impulses, a...

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Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." ... Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. ... Cather illustrates a story of Jim Burden and his relationship with Antonia within a backdrop of events that can be appropriated as forming a lesbian narrative space. ... Jim's revolution towards the snake further accentuates how the idea of the male is treated withi...

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Gender and the Media In this essay I will discuss the types of images presented by the mass media of men and women. I will use examples and insights from the text, video clips and lecture, and my own media experience to support my observations. Mass media presents something called gender ima...

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Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. ... This perpetuates the notion that women are just prizes, and legitimate pieces of art. ... When women watch music videos or any other form of media that inaccurately portrays women they get the sense that it is okay to dress scantily to get the attention of a man. ...

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Thou art inclined to sleep I know thou canst not choose. ... As a result of the social belief of the inferiority of women, and the expectation of a subservient attitude, women were often a form of slaves for males to use in obtaining what they want. ... Miranda, also, is represented as a form of slave, as she symbolizes the notion that women were to do as men wanted, through her submission and obedience to her father Prosper, and later to Ferdinand. ...

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Pointing out that biology textbooks use only negative words such as "failure" that only produces "waste", and "dying," denuding, " to describe the female reproductive system, specifically the menstrual cycle, Martin forms a juxtaposition against the male sperm, that is "something deemed valuable," "strong and streamlined" (Martin, 488,489). ... I find that this also starts to discriminate against certain types of males, those that don't wish to be warriors, but damsels instead, or those who enjoy expressing their emotions through art ...

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"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Who thee abroad, exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge)- (Bradstreet 270, ln 1-2, 4-6). ... In critic's hands beware thou dost not come, And take thy way where yet thou art not known; If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none; And for thy mother, she alas is poor, Which caused her thus to send thee out of door- (271, ln 19-24). ... In Bradstreet's "The Prologue,"" she gives insights which forms a...

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Introduction For hundreds of years people have put some message in the type of clothing they wore. Long ago people started wanting to stand out from the "crowd " and be different from other people by means of changing their clothing. Some examples of these "standing out " became very popular and wer...

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Nevertheless, the careful reader notices a curious trend in many of Shakespeare's plays: many of Shakespeare's female characters exercise a rather great deal of delicate forms of power and influence, and often do so in unusual and even subversive ways that challenge traditional gender roles. ... In fact, Hermia deploys a clever and intelligent argumentative strategy to respond to the men and to maintain her own position and the right to direct her own destiny rather than have it chosen for her and uses the fine art of rhetoric to defend her ideas as opposed to simply her gender or se...

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In their article, Gender Roles, Amanda Ryan and Sadie Hoxmeier explains that, "Gender Roles have forced society to form a stereotype of what the 'perfect woman' and 'perfect man' should be. People base this 'perfect woman and man' off of what they see in magazines, television shows, advertisements, music, and art" (5). ...

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His "intergration of state of the art 1960's sex role theory with his equally moribund view or hormonal causation of behavior" is the main fault in this study, she states. ... Thus, sexual dimorphism constitutes a template of the various forms of differentiations our species reveals- Anthropological evidence shows how human gender roles were defined in very ancient times, compared with how they are regarded today. ...

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