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"Femininity"

             "Femininity".
             "What is femininity?" I looked up the dictionary for a definition and I found that femininity is defined as : "the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women" The answer to this question has different angels from many opinion of people because these ways of behaving as a typical female woman has different concepts. The question relates to how people characterize femininity and how ideal women should be in our society "Saudi society" or other societies. Masculinity and femininity are two adjectives that are widely used in today's society. These terms are used to describe what we view as acceptable and expected behaviors of both men and women in our society. What we view as socially acceptable for men and women sets not only the standard for the way they act, but the way they are perceived. Many of these behaviors are taught to children at a young age. At the same time, masculinity and femininity also have features that are unlearned which leaded to overlapping between the two concepts. .
             In our society we have strict rules especially for women which I think that obligates people in Saudi society to see women as a figure of honor and idealism, a woman who follows all religious and custom rules is the "Saudi feminine ideal" for most of Saudi men. People in our society got used or have this image of the Saudi woman who obeys men no matter what they say, as if he is the captain of the ship and her response to every word he says must be "ay ay sir!!" Islam in our society obligates women to obey men but from my point of view there are limits for those obligations. Women should have the right to cooperate and anticipate in a way or other. I don't say that men and women should be equal in everything but some how in certain things they should. Unfortunately, this image of Saudi women that haunts most of Saudi men's minds has nothings to do with the concept of femininity unlike they indicate.


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1. Femininity Against Brownmiller's Femininity

This definition of femininity is quite different than what Susan Brownmiller thinks in her essay "Femininity," because she sees "femininity as a desperate strategy of appeasement" in which a woman has to understand the "feminine principle" is a "great collection of compromises." ... As time passes, that femininity is not lost, just the balance between masculinity and femininity can be weighted differently. ... This is because masculinity and femininity are basic, instinctive aspects of humanity. ... Femininity and masculinity are clearly opposites, and everyone has a little bit of each in the...

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2. Fear of femininity

Shakespear's Twelfth Night does not conclusively equate the fear of femininity to the fear of theatricality. ... Femininity is the veins in which art, music, poetry and drama course through. ... Morose and his rage against femininity, art and sound has been duped by the very thing he loathes -Dauphine profits handsomely for this mastery (5.4.190-200) of theatrics and Morose succumbs by the embracing of anti-theatrics. ... The understanding of the fear of anti-theatrical and of femininity are present in "Twelfth Night" and "Epociene." ...

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3. Masculinity vs femininity

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4. The Storm

The importance of nature symbolizing femininity throughout the story is that femininity is often seen as an analysis about nature. Here is one occurrence, of when nature symbolizes femininity; "Her lips were as red and moist as pomegranate seed" This quote explains how in "The Storm" nature is used to symbolize femininity, because it is comparing her lips to a pomegranate, which is a fruit, and fruits are part of nature. ...

  • Word Count: 356
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5. Beauty in Action Painting - Displaying Femininity

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6. Gender Equality

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7. Tonya Harding, Ice Skating and Controversy

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8. Adelaide Labille-Guiard:

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9. La Mariposa

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