A story or a play might positively portray characters who conform to traditional gender roles and negatively portray characters who violate those roles. Such a literary work would be considered a ____text, which, from a feminist perspective, means that it promotes damaging beliefs about women and men.
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A ____is any society in which men hold all or most of the power.
Usually, a ____gives men power by promoting traditional gender roles.
Patriarchal men and women believe that anyone who violates ____gender roles is in some way unnatural, unhealthy, or even immoral.
According to ____gender roles, men are naturally rational, strong, protective, and decisive. Feminist theory points out, however, that these gender roles are produced by patriarchy rather than by nature. And they have been used to justify many inequities, which still occur today