Sentence examples for societal idea from inspiring English sources

It's a societal idea of weathering wars and hardship yet still marching forward even in the most difficult times.

His answer was, roughly, that heterosexual parents would be more likely to abandon their children if there was a societal idea that marriage might just be about grownup love.

Dr. Fausto-Sterling's newest work, "Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality," is a look at societal ideas about gender as seen through the eyes of human beings defined as neither male or female -- hermaphrodites.

"Such attitudes also often project societal ideas about the sexualisation of women's bodies on to often quite young girls without taking into account their own intent or autonomy, suggesting their bodies are inherently sexual and provocative and they must cover them up as the only means of avoiding harassment or judgement".

The way the media reports on the careers of businesswomen and female politicians is vitally important, because it influences our societal ideas about women and their place, which in turn help to underpin unconscious bias in voters and employers, as well as girls' aspirations.

A self-described "nice Jewish girl from Boston," she graduated from Tufts, in 1959, and got a job at Grove Press, in New York — a hothouse of advanced literary and societal ideas, which, she says, was then fighting a legal battle over "Lady Chatterley's Lover".

But despite its increasing popularity, drag remains a deeply political expression, a critique and interrogation of societal ideas about gender and identity.

If they simply showed a realistic representation of how real LGBT people interact, it would take away the sting of shock and go a long way in shaping cultural and societal ideas of how gay families interact.

I've always been a free spirit who didn't want to be caged, who yearned to spread her creative wings, yet I felt pressure from the world around me that I needed to clip my wings in order to abide by societal ideas of how I was supposed to live my life.

"Harmful societal ideas of masculinity and femininity are often behind girls' vulnerability to HIV," Mr. Barker said, noting: "Boys are taught to think they've got some ownership over women".

In some cases, it's a deliberate poke at societal ideas of beauty, while in many cases it's simply about having fun and doing things differently.