Because the doctor's decision was based on no physiological or proven psychological difference between man and woman, the doctor's rational is not merely medical, but sexist. Society supported the sexist idea that did not believe a woman should enjoy creative expression, mental stimulus, or access to things that fulfill her. ...
Because the doctor's decision was based on no physiological or proven psychological difference between man and woman, the doctor's rational is not merely medical, but sexist. Society supported the sexist idea that did not believe a woman should enjoy creative expression, mental stimulus, or access to things that fulfill her. ...
Leahy writes: Where significant information on women as a distinct category was to be found--generally in industrial, "developed" nations--there was little and limited evidence to suggest that government proclamations in support of women's equality had found appreciable expression in government practices or in significant progress toward women's equality. ... Also at these conferences, "conferees ascertained that women were rational decision makers when it came to determining family size; women's decisions were conditioned not only by the availability of contraceptive dev...
Gender roles are frequently based around the ideas that women are expected to be more passive and emotional and men more assertive and rational. ... 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. ... This is not a type of unmediated cultural 'expression' but a conscious and deliberate 'strategy.' ...
(Hansen 275) I believe that once again Chaucer is using the Wife as an expression of his antifeminist agenda by showing how this answer to what women want is the perceived answer of a male author trying to personify his thoughts in a woman fictional character. ... Throughout her prologue, the Wife of Bath makes it clear that she intends for the reader or listener to view her as a rational, independent woman. ...
Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically assigned to members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assumed to be more active and dominant than women, and are seen to be rational, objective individuals. ... Gender is very much about how people perceive us, and our behaviour (personality, identity and self-expression) determines how we will be "perceived." ...
