Earlier studies have shown that both gender and masculine or feminine traits affects judgements about a person's qualities. This study builds upon earlier research and investigates the relation between voice and appearance with respect to gender based stereotype judgements, by letting participants listen to and then rate two of totally eight different digital characters, four female and four ma...

The Bugis-Makassar cultural community has a firm and courageous character. character can be created through the values contained in Panngaderreng concept (ade, rapang, wari, bicara, sara). Monolog, Ibu Sejati by Putu Wijaya, tells of woman who is dilemma, having to choose between her son making crime or enforcing law. This study aims create mother Wijaya’s IbuSejati, based on concept. reseach c...

Historical approaches to girlhood provide a basis for understanding changing cultural ideologies of sex, sexuality, and youth. While situating sexual desire, biological possibilities, and social responses to girls’ engagement in sexual intercourse at the center of its plot, the film Juno depicts the transgressive sexual agency of a young girl without substantially disrupting longstanding discou...

The article attempts to showcase the performativity of gender and nationality as elements a subject’s identity in heterosexual matrix. Applying Judith Butler’s theories regarding sex novel God Small Things clarifies how Ammu, most rebellious female character novel, subverts expected performative desire respectability is able go beyond limits sexuality thereby ideologies national inclusion. Her ...

The human character can be understood as an extension of the life mission or purpose of life, and explained as the primary tool of a person to impact others and express the purpose of life. Repression of the human character makes it impossible for a person to realize his personal mission in life and, therefore, is one of the primary causes of self-repression resulting in poor quality of life, h...