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  2. Power-control theory of gender and delinquency - Wikipedia

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    This meant that teenaged boys are freer to deviate than teenaged girls. This study also found, focusing on relatively minor forms of deviance such as shoplifting and breaking street lights, that middle-class youth actually were freer to deviate than working-class youth.

  3. Strong female character - Wikipedia

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    Although the archetype arose largely through feminism, it has not been universally well received by those supportive of women's rights. [5] Sophia McDougall of the New Statesman has criticized the high prevalence of strong female characters for creating a cliché that represents women as unrealistically strong; she argues that the simplicity of this archetype does little to present women in ...

  4. Mary Sue - Wikipedia

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    A Mary Sue is a type of fictional character, usually a young woman, who is portrayed as free of weaknesses or character flaws. [1] The character type has acquired a pejorative reputation in fan communities, [2] [3] [4] with the label "Mary Sue" often applied to any heroine who is considered to be unrealistically capable.

  5. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [ 54 ] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo.

  6. Women's Brigade of Weather Underground - Wikipedia

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    Initially called "The Proud Eagle Tribe," [1] the communiqué from the Women's Brigade of the Weather Underground pledged to "build a militant women's movement that commits itself to the destruction of Amerikan imperialism" and exploit "the man's chauvinism" as a "strategic weakness."

  7. “What’s Something You Didn’t Realize Was Messed Up Until You ...

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    Older men hitting on teenage / underage women I know this sounds f****d up to say & like everyone knows it’s wrong / weird now days. But at 15yo my mindset was s**t to say the least.

  8. Iron Girls - Wikipedia

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    A propaganda poster with Iron Girls. Iron Girls (sometimes translated as Iron Women) is a term that was popularized in China during the 1950s through the 1970s.It was used to define a new idealized emerging group of working women who were strong and capable of performing highly demanding labor tasks, usually assigned to men.

  9. Girl - Wikipedia

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    A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent. While the term girl has other meanings, including young woman, [1] daughter [2] or girlfriend [1] regardless of age, the first meaning is the most common one. The treatment and status of girls in any society is usually closely related to the status of women in that culture. In ...