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Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, [1] [2] and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. [1] [3] [4] [5] To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate.
Feminism has affected culture in many ways, and has famously been theorized in relation to culture by Angela McRobbie, Laura Mulvey and others. Timothy Laurie and Jessica Kean have argued that "one of [feminism's] most important innovations has been to seriously examine the ways women receive popular culture, given that so much pop culture is ...
Cultural feminists diverged from radical feminists when they rejected the previous feminist and patriarchal notion that feminine traits are undesirable and returned to an essentialist view of gender differences in which they regard "female nature" as superior.
The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women. Women die in child birth again and again in Grimms' tales — in "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Rapunzel" — having served their societal duties by producing a beautiful daughter to replace her.
The winkte are a social category in Lakota culture, of male people who adopt the clothing, work, and mannerisms that Lakota culture usually considers feminine. [44] Usually, winkte are homosexual, and sometimes the word is also used for gay men who are not in any other way gender-variant. [44]
Woman, Culture, and Society, first published in 1974 (Stanford University Press), is a book consisting of 16 papers contributed by female authors and an introduction by the editors Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere.
The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies.
The culture at large seems to be primarily operating under the following formula: Penis + Vagina = Sex, Orgasm, Sexuality, Sensuality, Happiness. And when that equation doesn’t quite add up, the automatic assumption isn’t: “Something is wrong with the equation.” The assumption is: “Something is wrong with me. I am broken. I am lacking.”