... A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. Her father, Egeus, has dragged Hermia off to Theseus's court in a desperate attempt to compel his daughter to comply with his wish that she marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. Egeus doesn't choose the court on a whim; rather, he is hopeful that by taking Hermia to ... . Egeus is so insistent about the importance of maintaining the dominant gender paradigm that he entreats Theseus to use the full weight and penalty of the law to punish his daughter if she does not obey, even if t...

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... for boys. In circumstances where their son has stood up for himself, possibly aggressively, parents are more likely to reward or encourage the behaviour as opposed to circumstances where their daughter may have acted aggressively. In such a way, children are exposed more and more to circumstances where it is acceptable for males to be aggressive and not females, as in acting ... ...

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