Gender and Literature: A Systems StudyUniversity Press of America, 2001 - 396 pages 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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... situations relevant to adaptation are of two kinds : 1 / those involving emergency and threat and causing a ... situations will stimulate relevant emotions to prompt adaptive reactions : the aversive , negative emotions linked with ...
... situations relevant to adaptation are of two kinds : 1 / those involving emergency and threat and causing a ... situations will stimulate relevant emotions to prompt adaptive reactions : the aversive , negative emotions linked with ...
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... situations involving any two gender types : 1 / situations in which the characters ' interests are in agreement , and both the interactive tendency and the emotions involved can be described as positive ; and 2 / situations in which the ...
... situations involving any two gender types : 1 / situations in which the characters ' interests are in agreement , and both the interactive tendency and the emotions involved can be described as positive ; and 2 / situations in which the ...
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... situations . What is more , the presented analyses serve only as illustrations of the theoretical construct of the dynamism of character as devised by Marian Mazur , which involves the changing relations between physiological and ...
... situations . What is more , the presented analyses serve only as illustrations of the theoretical construct of the dynamism of character as devised by Marian Mazur , which involves the changing relations between physiological and ...
Contents
The Psyche Its Structure | 35 |
Psyche | 42 |
Phylogenetic Memory | 53 |
Copyright | |
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