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  Male Chauvinism - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Male Chauvinism, belief in the innate superiority of men, justifying denial of equal treatment to women.
In recent years the term male chauvinism has been used by feminists and supporters of the women's movement to characterize men who do not advocate...
Male chauvinism is the term used to describe the belief that males are undeniably superior to females.
encarta.msn.com /Male_Chauvinism.html   (236 words)

  
  Male chauvinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Male chauvinism is the term for the belief that males are superior to females.
Male chauvinists are sometimes opposed to feminism, and some view girls as second-class children.
The opposite belief is called female chauvinism, and while certain masculists may consider it the definition of the word feminism, this view is not generally considered correct.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Male_chauvinism   (172 words)

  
 Chauvinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group.
The term is derived from the undocumented Nicolas Chauvin, whose legend made him out to be a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte whose fanatical zeal for his Emperor induced him, though wounded seventeen times in the Napoleonic Wars, to continue nevertheless to fight for France.
Chauvinism is an almost natural product of the national concept insofar as it springs directly from the old idea of the "national mission."...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chauvinism   (361 words)

  
 The Taming of the Shrew: Male Chauvinism?
Kate does not speak these words in soliloquy or alone to Petruchio or as the play's epilogue to the real audience, but to her family and friends as a means of winning a bet for her husband and besting her sister in public.
There is only one other speech in all of Shakespeare which has quite this male chauvinist ring to it, and it too is spoken in sisterly rivalry by a woman who demonstrably does not mean what she says.
It is Luciana's sermon to her sister, Adriana, in The Comedy of Errors (very possibly written just before or at the same time as Shrew), where she says that men "Are masters to their females, and their lords" (2.1.24).
www.bard.org /Education/resources/shakespeare/shrewmale.html   (1536 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Chauvinism
Han chauvinism (大汉族主义) or Hanism (汉本位) is a highly pejorative term which is used in the Peoples Republic of China to refer to policies and viewpoints which favor the Han Chinese majority ethnic group in China at the expense of the other minority ethnic groups.
As a social phenomenon, chauvinism is essentially modern, becoming marked in the era of acute national rivalries and imperialism beginning in the 19th cent.
Chauvinism exalts consciousness of nationality, spreads hatred of minorities and other nations, and is associated with militarism, imperialism, and racism.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chauvinism   (1045 words)

  
 Chauvinism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially whenthe partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group.
In the United States, chauvinism as a perceived social problem wasbrought to the forefront of national politics by the feminist movement, and the useof male chauvinism as a synonym for anti-female sexism.
The prototypical "male chauvinist" is the character of ArchieBunker in the hit television comedy All in the Family which explored the issue as a recurring theme.
www.therfcc.org /chauvinism-27318.html   (327 words)

  
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Allegations of chauvinism are ironic considering that Uderzo is of Italian descent, and Goscinny was of Ukrainian-Polish Jewish descent.
Nicolas Chauvin was injured, wounded 17 times in the Napoleonic Wars but nevertheless he continued to fight for France.
Proponents of such theories sometimes use the expression carbon chauvinism to disparage the assumption that carbon molecules are necessarily the basis for all life.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/c/chauvinism.htm   (846 words)

  
 male chauvinism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about male chauvinism
In the mid-20th century the expression male chauvinism was coined to mean an assumed superiority of the male sex over the female.
Nicolas Chauvin was a veteran of the French army noted for his devotion to the Napoleon I, and his name became a synonym for the blind worship given by Frenchmen to the emperor.
Chauvin has been represented as a patriotic character by many writers, for example in T and H Cogniard's La Cocarde tricolore 1831.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /male+chauvinism   (165 words)

  
 Female chauvinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Female chauvinism or female supremacy is an ideology which holds that the female sex is superior to the male sex.
Female chauvinists are often opposed to masculism and some view males as second-class citizens.
The opposite belief is male superiority, or male chauvinism, in which the males are considered to be the superior gender.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Female_chauvinism   (350 words)

  
 Chauvinism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on of a group to which one belongs when the partisanship includes malice and hatred a rival group.
Chauvinism is an almost natural product of national concept insofar as it springs directly the old idea of the "national mission." (A) nation's mission might be interpreted precisely bringing its light to other less fortunate that for whatever reason have miraculously been by history without a national mission.
prototypical "male chauvinist" is the character of Bunker in the hit television comedy All in the Family which explored the issue as a theme.
www.freeglossary.com /Chauvinistic   (382 words)

  
 Women
In summary; because male supremacy (assumption of female inferiority, regulation of women to service roles, and sexual objectification) crosses class lines, radical women are conscious of women's oppression, but because of their background, they lack consciousness of most women's class oppression.
Male supremacy is a phenomenon outside the left-right political spectrum and must be fought separately.
The failure of the movement to deal with male supremacy is less the result of a conscious evaluation of the issue's impact than a product of the male chauvinism that remains deeply rooted in the movement itself.
pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~hsadri/women.htm   (6396 words)

  
 Male Chauvinism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Women, who are victims of brutal male chauvinism, are given the hardest and worst-paid jobs, and are severely affected by unemployment and time restrictions.
The male chauvinism at Cape got her goat and she moved out to start Bloomsbury along with Nigel Newton.
Before Peter's lethal male chauvinism became the papal rock, the human spirit revolved around cults of fertility, worship of the vaginal rose, the sacred...
www.wikiverse.org /male-chauvinism   (189 words)

  
 Women
I'm certainly not condoning any male chauvinism here, but it seems to me that the females dressing up like hooker-popstars are as much to blame for the way guys act as the guys themselves are.
Male chauvinism is basically the way men see women as sex objects who can't either think very well or fight.
The male chauvinism in women in the past prevented us from assuming any real kind of role in the revolution because most of us felt there was very little we could do.
www.projectawareness.8m.com /photo.html   (2377 words)

  
 Interviews with Panther sisters on women's liberation : Thunderbay IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
So it wasn't just a matter of brothers being male chauvinistic in not wanting to relate to sisters as leaders over them--but it was also the sisters, because of conditioning wanted to continue to submit to other sisters, rather than to leaders of the party per se, regardless of sex.
This is very touchy and presents some problems in combating a specific thing like male chauvinism, because some brothers still have this fear of women dominating the whole political scene.
Chauvinism is an undying or unreasoning or irrational love for one's sex and if a women's liberation organization gets uptight because a man comes around, that's unreasoning and irrational.
thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=18876   (3419 words)

  
 Male Chauvinism and the Muslim World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Male circumcision, however, is clearly an Islamic practice and in fact was taught by God’s Prophets and Messengers, including the Prophet Abraham
There should be no confusion between the prohibited act of female genital mutilation and the encouraged act of male circumcision.
Another horrible practice is that of “honor killing,” when a man kills a female relative in his family because he feels disgraced and humiliated by her behavior.
www.proislam.com /dawah_chauvinism.htm   (700 words)

  
 Marriage
Both male chauvinism and feminism would like to describe the husband and wife relationship as a 50:50 relationship when it is not.
Both feminism and male chauvinism are disobedience to God's word and the consequence is the high divorce rate in the United States.
Whenever the husband is a male chauvinist while his wife is a feminist, there is an element of a competition for affection and attention between the husband and wife.
www.josephylee.org /marriage.html   (760 words)

  
 Male Chauvinism in Updike and Hemingway, Book_Reports, College Term Papers.com
Male Chauvinism in Updike and Hemingway John Updike and Ernest Hemingway struggle to portray women in a positive light; because of this, Updike’s and Hemingway’s readers come away from their stories with the effect that the lead male characters are chauvinistic, which can be defined as “prejudiced devotion to any attitude or cause” (“Chauvinism” 228).
Sammy believes that because he is male, and the girls are the typical female who will be flattered be him saving them, that this would be the wise thing to do in the situation.
Another male character that comes across to the reader as someone that is self-absorbed and a male chauvinist is the American in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.” This is due to the difficulty that Hemingway finds in writing and portraying a female character.
www.collegetermpapers.com /TermPapers/Book_Reports/Male_Chauvinism_in_Updike_and_Hemingway.shtml   (1303 words)

  
 The Mavens' Word of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Chauvin is dubious, and that because most of the aging veterans were bald--chauve in French--they became known as chauvins.
Male chauvinism and male chauvinist emerged as terms right along with the women's movement in the late 1960s.
You don't have to be a male to be a male chauvinist; you have to believe passionately in men's superiority, and be very vocal about it or try to act it out every chance you get.
www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20000522   (536 words)

  
 Women's Estate Juliet Mitchell 1971
‘Male chauvinism’ is being too much of a man. Either the male chauvinist has internalized the domination of men within our society and, in his individual actions and attitudes epitomizes this ‘supremacy’ or, as radical feminists believe.
We believe that the purpose of male chauvinism is primarily to obtain psychological ego satisfaction, and that only secondarily does this manifest itself in economic relationships....
Where male chauvinism is mostly used of individuals, sexism describes a whole society and social culture.
www.marxists.org /subject/women/authors/mitchell-juliet/womens-estate.htm   (3974 words)

  
 Man Male Chauvinism and Woman Radical Feminism: Aristotle and Germain Greer
Male Chauvinism and Radical Feminism: Aristotle and Germain Greer
In the same way, the relationship between the male and the female is by nature such that the male is higher, the female lower, that the male rules and the female is ruled.
Male Chauvinism and Radical Feminism: Aristotle and G. Greer
www.loveessaysbook.com /Marriage-Feminism/Aristotle-Greer.htm   (604 words)

  
 HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results
As a social phenomenon, chauvinism is essentially modern, becoming marked in the era of acute national...
male chauvinism A term particularly associated with the 1970s women's liberation movement and used to attack men's attitudes towards women.
Male chauvinism, Soviet style Someone got lost in the translation of Mikhail Gorbachev's interview from American television to Soviet television...
www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=LEXICOM&q=chauvinism   (454 words)

  
 K. C. Wilson Archive
It is an appeal to the male reflex to protect and assist the weak and innocent, as in raising children.
Maleness is for permanence: the sun, mountains, and that which gives a society permanence: authority and tradition.
Male nurturing is exploration and independence; an energy that deals with the outer world and just as need by children.
www.menstuff.org /columns/wilson/archive.html   (17339 words)

  
 Advent Children.forums - Is Chauvinism REALLY so bad?
Males are meant to be workers seeing that all the heat and blood flow to their hands.
Chauvinism in itself is not exclusive to gender or anything else, but is basically a sense of superiority over all others.
Draken, if you're openly accepting being called a male chauvinist yet simultaneously denying that you feel males are superior to females, then you've completely misunderstood what male chauvinism is. It's not about treating women differently because they're "beautiful and fragile" (more on this later); it generally boils down to little more than sheer misogyny.
www.adventchildren.net /forums/showthread.php?t=42259   (3994 words)

  
 chauvinism on Encyclopedia.com
A Culture of Deterrence: Nuclear Myths and Cultural Chauvinism in South Asia.
In the 1960s, the term "male chauvinist" appeared in the women's liberation movement; it is applied to males who refuse to regard females as equals.
Where the boys are; how a well-intentioned civil rights law and a dose of chauvinism shoved women administrators out of college sports.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/chauvini.asp   (279 words)

  
 Black Theology vs. Feminist Theology
In a society where fl maleness was marginalized and placed under constant threat of "castration" (literally as well as figuratively) by the dominant sexist-racist society, the fl minister became the one true "man" of the fl community, the surrogate patriarch for a scorned manliness.
Sexism is an elaborate system of handicaps that males erect around women to make female potency appear to be the point of their weakness and dependency, thereby suppressing from cultural consciousness the truth of male dependency.
The history of white male chauvinism, with its interstructuring of sexism and racism, is bent on alienating fl women and white women and making their contrary experiences incommunicable to each other.
www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=433   (3046 words)

  
 The Vagina Monologues 
And although there is possibly a cleanliness argument for male circumcision (removal of the foreskin eliminates a skin fold where bacteria can grow if unwashed), it's mostly done for religious or cultural (antimasturbation) reasons.
It could be argued that female chauvinism is necessary to overcome male chauvinism.
But as bad as male chauvinism is, its impact has been tempered with time and I expect it will continue to wane in America.
homepage.mac.com /redbird/iblog/G-Squared/C653008508/E1972307161   (667 words)

  
 BD judiciary censures 'male chauvinism' -DAWN - International; 21 August, 2004
Those jurisdictions - issuing certificates of nationality, character, successors, birth and death, and assisting the authority during a census - would be exercized exclusively by the commissioners elected to the general seats, said the circular.
The women's rights organizations apart, many a liberal democratic groups comprising males and females found the court verdict a much-required whipping against the male-chauvinistic attitude of the state's executive wing, presently presided over by Khaleda Zia.
Because, the law providing the reserved seats for women on the local government bodies, which was made during Hasina's regime, resolved that the size of the constituencies for the seats for women commissioners would be three times larger than those of the general seats, which are usually contested by men.
www.dawn.com /2004/08/21/int12.htm   (575 words)

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