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Female gender roles in the short story "Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro

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Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: Stereotyping and the discovery of limitations of the female gender can be seen as two important themes Alice Munro deals within her short story "Boys and Girls". In "Boys and Girls", which will be the base of this term paper, Munro criticises the social expectations and the gender roles of females, illustrated through the rebellion of the main character.The paper will show how the main protagonist deals with existing gender roles and rules in the society to that time and her attempts of liberation from social norms, although the 20th century is also characterized by two waves of feminism.First, the author will concentrate on female and male characters in the story as well as on general gender conceptions in the Canadian society to that time. Thus, the term paper will focus on the relationships between the characters as well as on how gender and symbols are connected.

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Markus Giesecke wurde am 15. April 1979 in Regensburg geboren und ist seit 2011 als freiberuflicher Übersetzer und Dolmetscher für die Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch und Spanisch tätig. Für die englische Sprache ist er als Übersetzer vor dem Landgericht Regensburg öffentlich bestellt und allgemein vereidigt. Der Schwerpunkt seiner Tätigkeit liegt auf der Übersetzung und Beglaubigung von Urkunden, Zeugnissen, rechtlichen Dokumenten, Gerichtsurteilen, Jahresabschlüssen etc.

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Authors Anonym, Anonymous
Publisher Grin Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2020
 
EAN 9783346260475
ISBN 978-3-346-26047-5
No. of pages 20
Dimensions 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
Weight 45 g
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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