All these different interpretations may be different from each other but what imports is that they are all linked to one superstructure, namely sex. In short, the main preoccupation of the story is sexuality. ... In Doris Lessing's story, the red colour, for instance, is used to symbolise femininity, sensuality of the woman and even sex. ... The "red pants- are mentioned in the story several times. ... It may as well symbolise her ferociousness .The description we are given about the woman and her gestures possibly gives rise to the issue of sex. ...

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As I read this story I remembered my teenage days and how girls would get certain repetitions simply off of sexual behavior. There is a clear double standard between young men and young women especially when it refers to sex. ... What is ironic is that everyone (almost everyone) has sex its apart of nature. ... Kim Kardashian is a very prominent female in the media whose claim to fame by many is due to her infamous sex tape.  ... But Janice Dickinson and these other women who choose to slut shame Kim most likely have the same type of sex Kim had in her sex tape or they are just envious becaus...

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Some beliefs about witchcraft may have risen from stories and legends told, possibly around a fire, just as ghost stories are now told around a campfire. ... But stories about it created a mood of fear and anxiety- (p. 372.) ... 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 frustr...

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In her words, the aim is not to rescue the humanist Chaucer, but to see in what ways his stories might enlarge our perceptions of human life and its possibilities, even though they were written during and for a very different historical context (xviii). ... Though she has been married five times, she is childless in a period when there were no contraceptives and we know it is not for the lack of sex in her relations. ... As a result of this behavior, WB may be seen as a threat to the medieval hierarchy of power relations between the sexes because she violates the conception of what woman shoul...

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Act 4 ends with Emilia asking for equality between both sexes (this theme also appears in the other plays we read). ... Even though Emilia asks for equal treatment among the sexes, she is fully aware this will not likely happen. ... They seek (or strive for) respect and equality between both sexes, and fall short in a male-dominated society. ... The concept of equality among both of the sexes is one that truly emerged only at the start of the 20th century. ...

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The reason for this stems from the kind of main protagonist present in the story. ... In fact, he even goes to the extent of making sex a prerequisite for a relationship. ... Not only does Rob expect sex from his partners, he is also quite obsessed with how he performs during the sexual act. ... It should be mentioned, however, that the Masculine Male stereotype is not only distinguished by his penchant for sex. ... In other words, there is always the "attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex" (Gwinn 142). ...

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The Shinto tradition has a story of creation that states two kami (the Japanese equivalent to gods) descended from the heavens and stirred the ocean and created the land and the kami of the sun, Amaterasu, who later gives birth to the first emperor (117). ... The most amazing part of the tradition's creation story is that it is so engrained in the people of Japan that to the current day the imperial line has not changed and the people trace their imperial family directly to the kami. ... Arvind Sharma's book tells of a story about another woman, Princess Yamato, who is considered t...

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Perhaps the most intriguing stories regarding love are those of the Wife of Bath and the Franklin. ... Through the Franklin, Chaucer the writer unfolds an incredible story about idealistic love. ... However, it is not the answer to the question that Chaucer intended to be the central moral of the story. ... This point is especially important when she begins her story and it is also important when discussing her stance on love. ...

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Moreover, the Indian girl is still raised to believe submissiveness goes hand in glove with her sex. ... The story of Savitri is held up as a prime example of the lengths to which a wife should go in aiding her husband. ...

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" The scene segues into a montage of different women being sexualized for the camera in cinema: a woman being sexually dominated by a man on a rock by the ocean, a woman disrobing before entering a bathtub four times, a woman taking off her bra, another her pants, and a final scene of a woman refusing to have sex with a man but giving in. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ...

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"Behind every great man, there is a great woman." Meryl Frost first said this in 1945 about his wife. It has since been said countless times over the years, and in countless languages and variations. It is not the first quote in which a husband gives credit to his wife for making him a better man; a better person. It takes a great woman to stand behind a man; a man who is trying to make a difference, change the nation, or in this instance, create a new nation that would be free of the puppet strings from England. ...

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Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. ... 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 socia...

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Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. Both Vivian Ward's and Eliza Doolittle's transformation into society's "ideal women" undertakes the same central journey, with pivotal moments in ...

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