Gender Roles

I hold myself supremely blest-blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am; ever more absolutely bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh.
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The fall of Man
She took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:6)
To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16) By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:19)
The Bible
• Adam & Eve Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living bring.(Genesis 2:7)
And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.(Genesis 2:19)
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”(Genesis 2:23) The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.(Genesis 3:20)
Gender Roles
Traditional Gender Role
• Instrumental Traits: male, competitive, hardworking, and tough • Expressive Traits: female, warm, sensitive, and sympathetic
From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronts