The article examines three models of female images in the literature Fin de Siècle era. During analysis literary studies by foreign scientists, it was found that femininity dominate works era: femme fatale, fragile and enfant. scientific study provides a detailed description comparison above-mentioned artistic literature. first image, to be demonic temptress who leads ruin, lusts after hedonist...

As I Lay Dying is one of the greatest classics written by American novelist William Faulkner. In this novel, Faulkner created a female character Addie, who had suffered a lot in her whole life. Addie’s inner heart was full of torment and she got a complicated personality, which is the root of her tragic life. This paper analyzes the causes of Addie’s torment in her inner heart from three aspect...

"science of woman," the doctrine of the nature and diseases of woman as distinct from man, became embodied in gynecology. Moreover, this new specialty of physicians constructed a theory of femininity which prescribed social roles without raising opposition, because they had the validation of science. Women became identified as a special group of patients, based upon their reproductive capacitie...

Louisa May Alcott’s intriguing and productive mix of fiction auto-fiction suffuses the experience female protagonist her Transcendentalist Bildungsroman Work (1873). The text, therefore, engages intersecting but distinct discourses femininity, domesticity, individual emancipation. novel proposes a new direction by placing women squarely in public sphere labor social relations, even though that ...

determined, not merely by the primary sexual characters, that is by the genital organs and particularly by the external genitalia, but by a general consideration of the sexual characteis, primary and secondary, which are present in any individual. Further it is insisted upon that every fertilised ovum is potentially bisexual, and that, while in every person there is predominating masculinity or...

It has been shown that users of a digital system perceive a more ‘masculine-sounding’ female voice as more persuasive and intelligent than a corresponding but more ‘feminine-sounding’ female voice. Our study explores whether a parallel pattern of affectively colored evaluations can be elicited when femininity and masculinity are manipulated via visual cues instead of via voice. 80 participants ...

Four experiments found that the colors people choose as corresponding to the odors of fine fragrances are influenced by the perceived masculinity/femininity of those fragrances. Experiment 1 examined the colors chosen for 3 male and 3 female fragrances. The pattern of colors chosen for female fragrances differed from that for male fragrances. Experiments 2 and 3 found that colors assigned to 2 ...