Sentences with phrase «gender reversal»

"Gender reversal" refers to the act of reversing or swapping the traditional roles, expectations, or stereotypes associated with males and females in a specific context. It involves challenging or breaking traditional gender norms to explore alternative perspectives or highlight societal gender biases. Full definition
«Ornamental masculinity» is the term Faludi coins for this late - millennial phenomenon, one which features some intriguing gender reversals.
In a slight gender reversal, a greater percentage of men want Silver to step aside as Speaker than women.
This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) and a beautiful but icy ingenue (Hanna Schygulla)-- based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer - director's own desperate obsession with a young actor — is a true Fassbinder affair, featuring exquisitely claustrophobic cinematography by Michael Ballhaus and full - throttle performances by an all - female cast.
Here the artist uses gender reversal as she observes: «I made him (the Interrogator) a woman so as to undermine him» thus adding comic relief to this already horrific scenario of torture, cruelty and masochism.
I ask the man, «Aren't you aware of the gender reversal, and its pressure?»
In a way, «Brightest Star» mines some of the same road - to - adulthood territory as Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig did in «Frances Ha,» but with the gender reversal of a female filmmaker and male protagonist.
The only thing that really marks it out from the crowd is the gender reversal in that the husband is the «damsel in distress» and the wife the would - be white knight.
In a gender reversal of Scheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights, Esma seduces a different Christian lover each night, only to have him drowned in the morning.
Fans are clamouring now for a gender reversal — female Link, male Zelda, or some variation thereof.
It's considered a gender reversal, because in 1970, men were generally more educated than their wives, and now the opposite is true.
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