Gender and Literature: A Systems StudyUniversity Press of America, 2001 - 396 oldal Gender and Literature: A Systems Study addresses the notion of gender as a "social construct," and presents evolutionary reasons for human psycho-behavioral differentiation along the lines of sexual dimorphism of the reproductive and the related functions, which produce the main genders of femininity and masculinity, corresponding roughly with the functions of procreation and competition, respectively. These two gender-oriented poles of human behavior are intermingled in the individual mind to produce a mixture of gender traits that underlie personality and behavior. A statistical model of the overlap of the masculine and feminine traits generates eight specific gender types: the feminine woman, the womanly women, the womanly man, the androgynous man, the androgynous woman, the manly man, the manly woman, and the masculine man. Characteristics of each type are offered together with examples from a wide range of literary texts. |
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... principle will stand for the idea of life and regeneration , with the woman as the Great Mother of the created world , identified with the vegetable elements of the earth and water , with materiality , instincts , and emotions . In ...
... principle will stand for the idea of life and regeneration , with the woman as the Great Mother of the created world , identified with the vegetable elements of the earth and water , with materiality , instincts , and emotions . In ...
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... principle of this complementary relationship is found not only in the relation between man and woman , but also in that between prince and minister and between father and son . Indeed , even in the individual this duality appears in the ...
... principle of this complementary relationship is found not only in the relation between man and woman , but also in that between prince and minister and between father and son . Indeed , even in the individual this duality appears in the ...
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... principle ; it is always a result of an interplay between the opposites of femininity and masculinity . Hence the system of sixty- four hexagrams achieved by a recombination of the two basic elements yin and yang . By the same token ...
... principle ; it is always a result of an interplay between the opposites of femininity and masculinity . Hence the system of sixty- four hexagrams achieved by a recombination of the two basic elements yin and yang . By the same token ...
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The Psyche Its Structure | 35 |
Psyche | 42 |
Phylogenetic Memory | 53 |
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