The article is an attempt to look at the state of research in Poland concerning study femininity and women as well literary sources this field. female concept “being-in-the-world” original version, line with current trend studies, conducted for many years, initiated or on a larger scale 90s twentieth century. presence woman her “being-in-the world” defines experiences, family, social national r...

Although many accounts of facial attractiveness propose that femininity in women's faces indicates high levels of oestrogen, there is little empirical evidence in support of this assumption. Here, we used assays for urinary metabolites of oestrogen (oestrone-3-glucuronide, E1G) and progesterone (pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, P3G) to investigate the relationship between circulating gonadal hormone...

Major theories of sexual selection predict heritable variation in female preferences and male traits and a positive genetic correlation between preference and trait. Here we show that female Texas field crickets, Gryllus integer, have heritable genetic variation for the male calling song stimulus level that produces the greatest phonotactic response. Approximately 34% of the variation in female...

Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic analysis of “courtly love” concludes that the courtly image Knight’s subservience to his Lady actually masks reality male domination; however, own seems complicit in same problematic. Whereas love provides a semblance agency woman, assuming partner as subject from whose vantage relationship is theorized, strips woman any subjectivity or by rendering her an absolute...

Edmund Spenser’s poetry notoriously battles itself, contorting the surface of his poetical works into an ambiguous representation of how he perceived Elizabethan England in terms of theology, sexuality, nobility, and ideology. Written as what he termed “an historicall fiction[sic],” Spenser allowed his imagination to capture and epitomize the perspectives of Elizabethan society, but in a twiste...

The emerging literature on the sport of roller derby focuses primarily on the potential ticipants to explore both masculine and feminine behaviours and appearances in the female body, often through flamboyant or oller derby participants act to disrupt or challenge the gender binary (mainstream ideals of femininity and gender expectations), whilst simultaneously embracing or supporting the tradi...

The strength of film as a medium that represents and constructs reality with the storyline which is symbolically packaged, through substance full socio-cultural values. This study to describe deconstruction femininity women's resistance meaning in “Mother” movie. research descriptive qualitative text using main analysis critical discourse by Sara Mills. subject movie, thriller drama directe...