A Woman Sees Things In the Long Run
By Tiffany Akiyama
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/g25-oral1.htm
Instructor: Dr. Leon James
- A female's inutition strives for the broader goal ahead
- Due to biological, and social make up, a female's persepctive is different than a male's perspecitive
- Nonreciprocal
- Incompatible
- Opposite
- At the same time they find each other interesting because a female's "cognitive self" complements man
- For Unity to occur,
a male needs to give up his "prerogatives" or "perks"
to understand a woman's way of thinking
- Ex., A wife request her husband no longer talks to an ex-girlfriend because of a feeling she can't explain. He doesn't understand, and they argue
- This puts a barrier between them and prevents them from reaching Unity
- A female strives for "bonding" through the three levels of the self
- Sensorimotor Conjunction
- Male and female are conjoined by the activities they share together
- Male takes the lead and female follows
- Female's motive is to keep the male happy in hopes to create a deeper bond
- Cognitive Conjunction
- Occurs at the same time as sensorimotor conjunction
- Time when female begins to take the lead
- She strives to understand her male counterpart so they can "harmonize" and she can make him happy
- Male dos not think of the female's perspective but is happy she understands him
- The female wants the male to conjoin himself to her
- Affective Conjunction
- Not as visible as sensorimotor or cognitive conjunction
- When the male aligns his feelings with his female he gives up his affective independence
- Independence for a spiritual conjunction
- A woman thinks to achieve unity while a male thinks to retain his independence to define himself
- Giving up affective independence will help the male to correspond to his needs and her needs
- A male does not lose something, he gains "a whole new level of life"
- It is a spiritual conjunction that lasts forever
- Not a single disagreement can arise because there are "built in dynamics for dissolving disagreements"
http://neptune.spaceports.com/~words/malelogic.html
This is a link that is a little more intuned with the required readings for our Gender and Discourse but I thought that it is prevalent on the topic of a "woman's intuition." The article talks about how men and women are biologically and socially different, therefore both sexes think differently, and because of society are expected to think like society's stereotype that's been established. Due to these differences is why men do not understand what a "woman's intuition" is, which is how disagreements can occur.
http://www3.calvarychapel.com/library/smith-chuck/books/cfr.htm
This is like a Christian Self-Help site on relationships. It explains why a woman was created for man and how they are both so different. Most of the units has to do with the wife being able to submit to her husband for God, because she is Christian. They treat it like a hierarchical tree of power, with the woman at the bottom. One of the most interesting units is Unit 8, because it speaks about a woman's "rebellion" as the source of discourse in a relationship. And even though there's a hint that things should be equity-like, it lays everything at the woman's foot. Basically, she needs to stop rebelling and bickering.
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number11/Gorey.htm
This article from the Journal of American Studies of Turkey, is like a term paper where you try to interpret what the author, or in this case, the poet is all about through one of their works. This is an interesting article that has a basic theme of how female poets need to overcome traditional boundaries in writing just to be able to write through the words of "their" environment and not through the traditionally "masculine" tones. To me, its relates to the whole them of this course in general of how a woman needs to overcome the stereotypical "male-toned" barriers in order to acheive Unity in her relationship.
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