Every area of social prominence was completely run by men: priests, warriors, tribal chiefs, etc. Woman had very little power in this political/public society. ... "Woman could not inherit property, unless a family had no male heirs. ... I honestly would not have wanted to be a woman during this time period in India's history. The lack of rights and expectations of a woman during this time would have driven me crazy. ...

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And this ideal of male dominance is first developed in the chapter "No Name Woman " in the memoir Woman Warrior. ... However, by writing "No Name Woman ", Kingston brings her aunt back to life, she is creating her voice. ... As seen in the very first sentence of Woman Warrior, Kingston begins by writing, "You must not tell anyone " (Kingston 1). ... It is as if the only importance of a woman is to make babies, specifically boys. ... And this is specifically why Maxine Hong Kingston wrote her memoir Woman Warrior. ...

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Why is the man the one that gets to choose the woman? ... It is not good for Small Warrior to grow up without a father to teach him how to perform a man's duty. Small Warrior is never to see tears. ... He was no man to be thinking about a woman. He had never lived with a woman wouldn't know how to. ...

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Of course, since we have man/woman roles in society, so does the movie. In the movie, the Woman has roles such as the helpless innocent type, while the Men have the very aggressive, persuasive, and charming roles. ... To classify him in simple Disney terms, he is the gentle giant, or a fierce warrior with a civilized heart. ...

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I wouldn't be surprised if in maybe up to a hundred years the facial reaction to emotional stimuli of a man and woman has differed. ... If there was a battle it was almost unheard of for there to be a woman warrior. ... A woman could not survive out in the wilderness on her own in these times, so by instinct they followed the men and depended on them for survival. ...

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Traditionally speaking, a woman's place is in the kitchen. ... To be cliché, it's every man (and woman) for his (her) self. ... Warĩĩnga is Ngũgĩ's warrior. ... She is an African woman. ... Warĩĩnga is a woman, she is the weaker gender. ...

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"When a woman was married she passes guardian ship of her father into that of her husband. ... A woman was legally incapable of arranging her own marriage, and would often have their marriage arranged while very young. ... Euripides Medea is one of the tragedies that shows a woman dominating the rest of the characters in the play. ... Medea is shown to be tough, and is warrior like in her speeches to the chorus. ... This being that the main function of the woman was to produce heirs for their husbands. ...

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The current feminist movement, if it could even be called that, centers mainly around sexual acts, rather than "real" issues that every woman should be concerned about. ... Beinart attacks feminists as hypocritical with regard to the Clinton cases for not "rallying to Jones's and Willey's defense when there is evidence that Clinton made a pass at them" and accuses conservatives of also being hypocritical for "not rallying to the president's defense when there is no evidence that he punished either woman for resisting?" ... Other good examples are the television shows Buffy, The ...

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For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... Society has set the guidelines and molds us into what is stated to be the natural pattern for what makes a man or a woman. ... Take for example a woman getting ready to for work at a bank. ... Butler states "We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."... Men were still very much the warrior class in that time and they wore their hair down their backs. ...

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For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... Society has set the guidelines and molds us into what is stated to be the natural pattern for what makes a man or a woman. ... Take for example a woman getting ready to for work at a bank. ... Butler states "We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."... Men were still very much the warrior class in that time and they wore their hair down their backs. ...

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In the Ibo culture, nearly all actions and tasks are given gender, from the yams being a "man's crop," (p.23), to Okonkwo telling his daughter to "Sit like a woman!... Another respected woman is Chielo, "the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves," (p.49) who is so respected by Okonkwo that at one point he trusts her to carry his precious daughter miles away to the hills and caves in the dark of the night to talk with the Gods. ... "(p.175) He is a traditionalist who misses the strong, warlike nature of the clan that was strictly enforced...

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Source: Chung Sei-wha;Challenges for Women Seoul: Ewha Woman's University Press Scratching beneath the superficial, Jih Yun, far from vocalizing women's concerns, ends up being the example of how gender equality can go very wrong. ... Jih Yun is the caricature of the strong woman, and Kyun-Woo her counterpart as the caricature of a weak man. ... Jih Yun appears to be a solo warrior for time-cherished virtues. ...

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