Women Flashcards
What is the term used to describe brothels in Of Mice and Men?
Cat house
What is a man who hates or fears women defined as?
Misogynist
What type of society has men at the centre of it in more powerful positions than women?
Patriarchal
What word could we use to define women who were urged to stay at home and give up their dreams and independence?
Oppressed
What are the two main roles that women hold in Of Mice and Men?
Wife and prostitute
What is the word used to describe a promiscuous woman (Curley’s Wife) and the name of Slim’s dog in OMAM?
Lulu
What word is used to describe a woman as the reason that a man ends up in jail? And what does it imply about crimes committed against women?
Jailbait- it implies that the woman is responsible for the crime that was committed against her and as ‘bait’ she lured the man.