The nineteenth century marked the first important milestone in history of women not only because increased awareness about their situation, which would lead to feminist movement, but also such gender and attitudes became part literary canon, forever changing way works writers be written interpreted. Believing that women’s may offer a vantage point from assess understand how society works, this ...

In this article, I examine how political and media discourses of multiraciality are deployed to justify guilt innocence. trace the deployment determine who is deserving life or death in coverage, rhetoric, court records during Obama’s presidency, George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal, 2021 killing Daunte Wright. weaponization multiracial identities as tools white supremacy anti-Blackness. Through s...

The existentialist philosopher, Simone De Beauvoir, in her prominent book, Second Sex, states that “one is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” (Beauvoir, 2011). This statement built upon the idea woman; or sexuality/gender performance social product resulting from society and physiological training. term ‘woman’ aforementioned phrase alludes to romanticized version of woman as perceived by s...

Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard earn, easy lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on brief measure of precarious (the Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies country-level indices equality human development. Using from university...

This article explores the functions of secondary girl characters in English-language American and Canadian girls’ Bildungsromane. Previously, we have explored literature as a distinct genre, framed theory genre social action, our past scholarship examines ways which pre-WWII Bildungsroman stories emphasize eventual integration into their communities. Rather than having adventures, boys’ coming-...