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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... Sexual Dimorphism Apart from the first premise about the physical existence of the world , all the other assumptions of systems approach are of ... sexual characteristics , that is , in the genital organs Introduction 9 Sexual Dimorphism.
... Sexual Dimorphism Apart from the first premise about the physical existence of the world , all the other assumptions of systems approach are of ... sexual characteristics , that is , in the genital organs Introduction 9 Sexual Dimorphism.
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... sexual dimension . The irrational pull towards wholeness and completion is most fully realized in a sexual union , the coniunctio oppositorum of the alchemists , when the two bodies become one , just as the two incomplete but ...
... sexual dimension . The irrational pull towards wholeness and completion is most fully realized in a sexual union , the coniunctio oppositorum of the alchemists , when the two bodies become one , just as the two incomplete but ...
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... sexual context ( the bed ) protected by her knight provides another reflection on the relations between sexuality and heroic behavior as the main theme of the romance . The danger of succumbing to sexuality and to the magical power of ...
... sexual context ( the bed ) protected by her knight provides another reflection on the relations between sexuality and heroic behavior as the main theme of the romance . The danger of succumbing to sexuality and to the magical power of ...
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The Psyche Its Structure | 35 |
Psyche | 42 |
Phylogenetic Memory | 53 |
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