Female stereotypes
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| Illustration: ''[[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|The Birth of Venus]]'' (detail), a 1486 painting by [[Sandro Botticelli]]]] | Illustration: ''[[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|The Birth of Venus]]'' (detail), a 1486 painting by [[Sandro Botticelli]]]] | ||
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Stereotypes of women vary from bad women to good women.
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Femininity
Femininity refers to qualities and behaviors judged by a particular culture to be ideally associated with or especially appropriate to women and girls. Distinct from femaleness, which is a biological and physiological classification concerned with the reproductive system, femininity principally refers to socially acquired traits and secondary sex characteristics. In Western culture femininity has traditionally included features such as gentleness, patience and kindness.
Madonna–whore complex
The term Madonna-whore complex refers to a psychological complex in Freudian psychoanalysis that is said to develop in the human male. The term is also used popularly, often with subtly different meanings.
According to Freudian psychology, this complex often develops when the sufferer is raised by a cold and distant mother. Such a man will often court women with qualities of his mother, hoping to fulfill a need for intimacy unmet in childhood. Often, the wife begins to be seen as mother to the husband — a Madonna figure — and thus not a possible object of sexual attraction. For this reason, in the mind of the sufferer love and sex cannot be mixed, and the man is reluctant to have sexual relations with his wife, for that, he thinks unconsciously, would be as incest. He will reserve sexuality for "bad" or "dirty" women, and will not develop "normal" feelings of love in these sexual relationships.
Female stock characters
The following is a list of stock characters, archetypes and stereotypes of women. These stereotypes are evident in media, art and literature.
A short list of female stock characters includes bad girl, black widow, courtesan, diva, dominatrix, Eve, femme fatale, Lilith, Medusa, mistress, supermodel, mother, prostitute, female reader, goddess, nude, damsel in distress, tomboy, hooker with a heart of gold, warrior, nymphomaniac, beautiful woman and ugly woman.
Long list
An example of each instance is provided.
See also
