Gender relations

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In this century, which is the century of light and the revelation of mysteries... It is well established that mankind and womankind as parts of composite humanity are coequal and that no difference in estimate is allowable, for all are human.

Abdu'l-Bahá

The Promulgation of Universal Peace

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Topic

Equality Men and women Gender relations Women's rights

Speaker

Abdu'l-Bahá

Source

The Promulgation of Universal Peace

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Baha, Abdul. Speech at woman's suffrage meeting. 20 May 1912, Metropolitan Temple, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Baha, Abdul. "May 20, 1912, at Metropolitan Temple, Seventh Avenue and Fourteenth St., New York. Woman's Suffrage Meeting." The Promulgation of Universal Peace. Baha'i Publishing, 2012.

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Laura Mulvey

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Topic

Gender relations Patriarchy Oppression of women Women's attractiveness

Author

Laura Mulvey

Source

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, 1 Oct. 1975.

Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden.

Homer

The Odyssey

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Topic

Trustworthiness of women Gender relations Marriage Secrets

Author

Homer

Source

The Odyssey

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 11, l. 441-443.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 11, l. 441-443.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Emma

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women

Speaker

Emma Woodhouse

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Emma

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

Abigail Adams

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Topic

Gender relations Oppression of women Men and women

Author

Abigail Adams

Source

Letters of Abigail Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1778 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Original Citation

Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Thaxter. 15 Feb. 1778.

Current Citation

Adams, Abigail. "Letter to John Thaxter, 1778." The Adams Papers: The Adams Family Correspondence Volumes 1 & 2, edited by L. H. Butterfield. Anthenum, 1965.