Explore the role of gender and sexuality in Desire Under the Elms. How do these themes contribute to the conflict?

The theoretical approach that explores ways in which sexuality is important for the operation of society is the __________ approach.A.structural-functionalB.social-conflictC.symbolic-interactionD.feminist

A theoretical perspective most popular in the mid-twentieth century held that social realities such as the roles that men and women play in heterosexual couples or the existence of inequality could be explained by the necessary purpose they served in society. What was this theoretical perspective?Group of answer choicesconflict theorysymbolic interactionismpostmodernismfunctionalism

How is patriarchy reflected in the story ?

We examine how two sociological traditions account for the role of femininities in socialdomination. The masculinities tradition theorizes gender as an independent structureof domination; consequently, femininities that complement hegemonic masculinities aretreated as passively compliant in the reproduction of gender. In contrast, Patricia Hill Collinsviews cultural ideals of hegemonic femininity as simultaneously raced, classed, and gendered.This intersectional perspective allows us to recognize women striving to approximatehegemonic cultural ideals of femininity as actively complicit in reproducing a matrix ofdomination. We argue that hegemonic femininities reference a powerful location in thematrix from which some women draw considerable individual benefits (i.e., a femininitypremium) while shoring up collective benefits along other dimensions of advantage. In theprocess, they engage in intersectional domination of other women and even some men.Our analysis re-enforces the utility of analyzing femininities and masculinities from withinan intersectional feminist framework.Keywordsgender, femininities, masculinities, social inequality, intersectionalityThe Root, an online magazine of Black news, opinions, politics, and culture, published anarticle by writer Michael Harriot in 2017 defining “Becky” as “a white woman who uses herprivilege as a weapon, a ladder or an excuse” (Harriot 2017). He argued that “White woman-hood is a credit card with an unlimited balance. After all, if you are born with the ultimateprivilege of white womanhood, why not use it to your advantage?” Becky also made anappearance in Beyoncé’s 2016 song “Sorry,” in which she calls out “Becky with the goodhair.” Abigail Fisher, plaintiff in the 2016 anti-affirmative action case Fisher v. University ofTexas, was anointed “Becky with the bad grades” (Pettit 2016). Becky, and the earliercolloquial designation of “Miss Ann,” succinctly capture the idea that white women’s racismis gendered.1,21University of California-Merced, Merced, CA, USA2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA3Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA4University of Maine, Orono, MECorresponding Author:Laura T. Hamilton, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA.Email: [email protected]/0735275119888248Sociological TheoryHamilton et al.research-article2019

Write a paragraph to answer: ‘If I could change anything about the way the society represents people and sexuality it would be… because...'