Exam-theme: gender Flashcards
Topic sentences
Bennett perceivably presents Hecotr’s classroom as an environment in which gender and sexuality are more fluid than the outside world.
Mrs Lintott emphasises how women are/ have been behind the scenes fixing the mistakes of men throughout history.
Bennett exemplifies the role of the male voice in the telling of history through the structure of the play.
Dakin is presented as conforming to stereotypes relating to masculinity and sexuality.
Bennett pertains to the stereotypes circulating in 1980’s Britain, through dialogue and dramatisation.
Mrs Lintott reveals the often delusional self-identifications of male characters within the play.
Bennett perceivably presents Hecotr’s classroom as an environment in which gender and sexuality are more fluid than the outside world.
quotations
“Hector:”A.E Housman, sir.” Timms:” Wasn’t he a Nancy, sir?”…(Hits him on the head with an exercise book)””
“Vous n’etes pas un homme. Vous etes un soldat…un soldat blesse; vous comprenez, cher monsieur le Directeur …soldat blesse?”
“Voila votre lit et voici votre prostituee”- “Here is you bed and here is you prostitute”
Mrs Lintott emphasises how women are/ have been behind the scenes fixing the mistakes of men throughout history.
Quotations
“I have not hitherto been allotted an inner voice”
“They Kick their particular stone along the street and I watch”
“My wife, Mrs Armstrong…on occasions now she has seen a motorbike, boy on the pillion. A man fiddling”
Mrs Lintott reveals the often delusional self-identifications of male characters within the play.
Quotations
“Our headmaster is a twat…Twat, twat, twat.”
“Mrs Lintott: “Who’s the best? Dakin?” Irwin:” He’s the canniest” Mrs Lintott:” And the best looking” Irwin: “Is he?…””
Bennett exemplifies the role of the male voice in the telling of history through the structure of the play.
Quotations
“Like particularly her tits, which only fell after prolonged campaign some three weeks ago and to which I now have immediate access and which were indeed the start line for last night’s abortive thrust southwards”
Bennett pertains to the stereotypes circulating in 1980’s Britain, through dialogue and dramatisation.
quotations
“Posner:”(Celia Johnson) yes, dear”
“She cries and he embraces her”
Dakin is presented as conforming to stereotypes relating to masculinity and sexuality.
quotations
“I would like to work in a Masion de’ passe”
“Just wait till you get started on sex. You’re making it up all the time. Being different outrageous”
Context
Societies patriarchy, the image of a businesswoman in shoulder pads and high heels became a 1980s cliché. But the success of the few women who broke through the “glass ceiling” did nothing to advance the position of the majority of women. The trajectory away from class politics was briefly stopped in its tracks by the great Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. Despite the fact that the National Union of Mineworkers was a male-dominated union, the common interest of working men and women was clear for all to see. Miners’ wives and other women in mining communities threw themselves into the struggle. Many went from making the tea and kitchen duties to mass picketing and travelling all over the country to win solidarity. A layer of feminists was inspired by their magnificent fight and got involved.
