Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Myths are nothing but this ceaseless, untiring solicitation, this insidi ous and inflexible demand that all men recognize themselves in this image, eternal yet bearing a date, which was built of them one day as if for all time (Barthes 1972, 155).Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace -Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle 1892, 68)hose who have spanned the literature on gender roles and Protes-JL tant Fundamentalist groups have been bombarded with theories seeking to account for the thing that many consider most interesting about this movement: its ability to exist peacefully with its own con tradictions.Countless scholars have asked why, in such an advanced age, old-fashioned notions of male dominance and female submission continue to thrive; why women can willingly, and even happily, remain a part of a social arrangement designed for their subordination.The attention given to the "why" problem (not to mention the issues sur rounding the who, what, when, and where) illustrates the apparent difficulties that arise when such social arrangements remain extant.It appears that knowing why something happens does not always suffi ciently explain the factors that perpetuate its existence.
Author: Leslie E. Smith
Institution: Missouri State University
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4386765975