Nadel (1952) notes that if there is a case of witchcraft where there is a death or something unimaginable, it is said, "a few evil individuals among the men (whom no one can name) have betrayed their own sex and become the helpers of a woman witch [and] men are never blamed or accused of witchcraft- (p.19). ... (p.21) In their need for control and the frustrations of being considered the lower of the two sexes, the Nupe man can only find superiority on the "fantasy-realm- where "the main collective weapon against witchcraft lies in the activities of a male secret society which, by thr...

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Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. ... Gender must not be mistaken with sex. ... What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to encourage in that child. ... Because it is generally accepted that there are only two sexes, society has created a two-gender model:...

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All these different interpretations may be different from each other but what imports is that they are all linked to one superstructure, namely sex. ... Because the sunbathing woman is bikini-clad: "She wore a red scarf tied around her breasts and brief red bikini pants,"" which reveals the contours of her body, her sensuality becomes highly visible. ... In Doris Lessing's story, the red colour, for instance, is used to symbolise femininity, sensuality of the woman and even sex. ... It may as well symbolise her ferociousness .The description we are given about the woman and her gestur...

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In his apartment there are pictures of naked women, he even objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). One can constantly spot his eyes wandering to a woman's breasts or rear, he spends a whole scene staring at scantily clad women by a pool and talking about their bodies, and he even perverts the baptism of his attractive maid into a romantic sexual fantasy. ... " The scene segues into a montage of different women being sexualized for the camera in cin...

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Without having to watch what they say for fear of offending people's cultural sensibilities (which are created by males anyway i.e. supposedly for the female gender's own good... but it is for the excuse that men 'cannot control themselves when it comes to sex and lust, etc') And this is exactly what this young woman is doing, she asserts her physical presence in public space (on the rooftops where people can see her) and just by doing that she makes a social statement for women's right to be whatever/whoever/doing anything they want. ... Paragraph 2 (till line 10) ...

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