Cultural Issues: Gender Traits
Description
Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- All-male space
- And marriage
- And religion
- Bachelor
- Bitch
- Black women
- Body
- Changing relationships
- Chastity / purity
- Chauvinism / Misogyny
- Chivalry
- Clothing
- Cross-dress
- Dirty girl
- Double standard
- Female body
- Female in peril
- Female intuition
- Female stereotype
- Feminine man
- Femininity
- Flapper
- Fluidity
- Gentleman
- Idealization
- Inversion
- Labor
- Lady
- Lady's accoutrements
- makeup
- Male body
- Male domination
- Male gaze
- Male rescuer
- Male rivalry
- Mama's boy
- Marriage
- Masculine woman
- Masculinity
- Maternal impulse
- Men vs women
- Menstruation / menstrual cycle
- New Woman
- Patriarchy
- Reproduction
- Separate spaces
- Sexual double standard
- Sexual Harassment
- Southern woman
- Stereotype librarian / school teacher
- Taste
- Transsexuality
- War
- Widow
- Woman smoking
- Women
- Women as gentler sex / delicate
- Women as mysterious / secretive
- Women as sacred
- Work
Tagged Events
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Numbers | Gender›Traits | Law›Execution | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Division | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Expenses
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Quotation as thought
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Year›December
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Recklessness
Environment: Natural›River | Natural›Tide flat / marsh | Natural›Trees | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Weather
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Entertainment›Boat race | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Traits | Gender›Women | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Art›Photograph | Character›Inherited traits | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Boat | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New London, Connecticut | Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics