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Cultural Issues: Gender Ungendered

Description

In The Hamlet Houston and Mrs Littlejohn are referred to as "ungendered" (216). The phrasing is curious, but the implication is that they do not have genders. This may the only time this occurs in Faulkner, but it is still worth mentioning. JB

Parent Term

  • Gender

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
  • Traits
  • Transsexuality
  • War
  • Widow
  • Woman smoking
  • Women
  • Women as aggressive
  • Women as gentler sex / delicate
  • Women as mysterious / secretive
  • Women as sacred
  • Work

Tagged Events

The Hamlet, 216 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Ungendered
Themes and Motifs: Money›Disdaining money | Values›Charity