Shakespeare’s 1623 comedic play Twelfth Night complicates sex and social roles, in order to explore further those sexual and social roles. In this play, a male actor plays the female character of Viola (as a male would play all female characters), who is then disguised as the male youth Cesario in the play itself. Disguised ...
Abstract Globalization, feminism and the labor movement, terms not initially considered jointly as crucially defining self-identity. But as the saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. The globalization of feminism can be attributed to the speared of capitalism abroad. Women are shifting to new role identities from the relational mother, to that of the provider (traditionally ...
The events of the French Revolution spurred many Romantic writers to question prescribed social roles, including those of gender. The fight for freedom for all led to new ideas about the role of women in English society. The Romantic era brought perhaps the first feminist writings, creating a debate among Romantic writers on the merits ...
The movie star is on the cutting edge of changing portrayals of the self. A relatively recent phenomenon, stars combine a variety of representational strategies in order to produce charisma. Hollywood has capitalized on the charisma of stars in order to persuade, using stars’ charisma to stimulate consumption, define and promote particular gender roles (such ...
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