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Female Roles in Society

The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life styles. Yet there is an area of improvement in the focus of gender: based on labour and the patriarchial working woman. The class society have a great impact on the relation women have with men. The different theories and definitions help to understand the relationship of the construction of the gender. Feminism has a great impact on the gender role in our society. Feminists have been fighting for a long time for power and control in this mans world. Our family structure creates a great impact on womens behaviour in society, family life and the labour force. All these titles focus on the relatonship of gender.Gender is best described the construction of what is culturally assumed as femininityas well as masculiniity. Lesbian and gay male theory of a feminist is beyond the logic of masculine/femine. It is also referred to the social and cultural categories of the biological fact of human sex differentiation.Teresa de Lauretis uses this table: (1) Gender is (a) representation-which is not to say that it does not have concrete or real implications, both social and subjective, for the material life of individuals. On the contrary,(2) The representation of gender is its construction-and in the simplest sense it can be said that all of Western Art and high culture is the engraving of the history of that construction.(3) The construction of gender goes on as busily today as it did in earlier times, say the Victorian era. And it goes on not only where one might expect it to-in the media, the private and public schools, the courts, the family, nuclear or extended or single-parented. The construction of gender also goes on, if less obviously, in the academy, in the intellectual community, in avantgarde artistic practices and radical theories, even, and indeed especially, in feminism.(4) Paradoxically, therefore, the construction of gender is also effected by its ...

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