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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Female passivity"”.
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Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency
… being viewed as a slut, gender roles that demand female passivity, sex is scary, and young women are not to have sex, or only in the context of committed relationships. Implications for parenting practices and the importance of developing sexual agency are discussed.
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Piecing Together the Grimm's Quilt
Female passivity in Grimm's fairy tales has been compounded by the editing and fragmentation of the original text. Our twentieth century society, for the most part, has rejected many tales that depict women in positive, active roles. Although the traditional tales do portray women in stereotypical …
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The Woman in the Garden: Representations of Femininity and Domestic Gardens in Nineteenth Century Writing and Twentieth Century Film
… and enclosure, contributing to notions of female passivity and restraint. I aim to demonstrate that, rather than a being a conservative space, the garden is able to encompass a range of representational ambiguities/ contradictions. Using a methodology informed by, but not limited to, …