Sentence examples for ancient gender from inspiring English sources
Playboy and Page 3 piggybacked the sexual revolution, persuading women that they were sexual pioneers when they were actually reprising ancient gender roles.
Sappho, for a bit of ancient gender politics; Aphra Behn for theater gossip; and George Eliot because everyone who knew her said she was fascinating.
Thus, Israeli Jewish women, for instance, face a double whammy of problems in state-backed religious courts: Religious law is suited to ancient gender identities and interpreted by ultra-Orthodox judges.
It is possible that these ancient gender roles influenced not only the patient but also the municipality official who is to decide whether or not a person qualifies for sickness benefit, disability pension or vocational rehabilitation.
Post the free-love movement, the 'tache symbolised an ancient take on gender relations and would be later attached to unreconstructed characters who are trapped in their out of touch realities (Mario, Ned Flanders, Ron Burgundy and Borat).
"For this female ruler to have these implements supports the idea that in ancient Maya culture, gender roles were sometimes blended," Mr. Lee said in a statement issued by S.M.U.
And although Alexandria was the intellectual capital of the known world and Egypt an ancient pioneer of gender equality, the country had "no fine historian" to counter the agendas of those for whom "impugning independent-minded women was a subspecialty".
And the nuclear family — that ancient corset of gender roles that for centuries defined and reinforced the division of labor between the sexes and was supposed to disappear with more equality — is, among some demographics, having a quiet postfeminist renaissance.
In ancient Greece the gender of one's partner(s) was not important, but instead whether one took the active or passive role.
Clinton's announcement was a big story partly because the prospect of a woman president threatens ancient notions of gender still cherished by many, especially conservatives.
This latter isn't the problem in and of itself; ancient Athens and Rome practiced gender apartheid while providing flourishing civil societies for men.
