Sunday, February 3, 2019
Presentation on Natures Representation as a Woman :: Nature Gender Sex Female
 compend Style Presentation disposition being represented as  adult  distaffNature is like a woman who enjoys disguising herself, and whose different disguises, revealing at once one part of her ad now another, permit those who study her and assiduously to hope that one day they may know the whole of her  soul (Diderot) Why this is an interesting topic?Often saw references of  record with N and sounded like a proper name sometimes.The connections  surrounded by nature and the female form.Connect the romanticist period with the start of feminism and the new strategies and approaches theorists and philosophers and writers  are taking now.  4 Possible Theories for connecting women with nature1)  Descending from precursory languages  such as Anglo-Saxon (Old English), Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek and French. 2)  Based on the qualities generally associated with women and differences between gender roles 3)  Connection between Woman and Nature and the life  round of golf 4)  Biblical ref   erences 1)  Languages with gendered nounsOld English  gecyndLatin la naturaItalian la naturaFrench  la natureSpanish  la naturalezaGreek    altogether are gendered as female.  Could be initial cause for why we  play to consider nature as female. 2)  Gender Role of Woman- Nature is feminized because it is seen as  sustaining the same qualities as women at the time when most of the romantic writing was produced - Women were seen as being domestic, pious, moral, pure, gentle, kind, graceful, simple and beautiful this was according to the nature of separate spheres men and women were fundamentally different in terms of their characteristics as men were seen as hard-working, industrial, rational, assertive, independent and proud none of which is easily  affiliated with nature - Therefore nature was seen as the embodiment of all the characteristics that women possess and there are frequent references to this in literature, especially poetry             eg.  continual rotation of thunweari   ed wheel                    That nature rides upon maintains her health,                    Her beauty, her fertility                    (Cowper, The Task,  nurse 1 The Sofa, 359-61   
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