Prejudice Against Women By Nancy Tuana And Young, White,...

Prejudice against women, unlike prejudice against other people groups, can be benevolent or hostile, and has been propagated through the years by means of phrases, actions, and ideologies. Society has well-ingrained prejudice against women, allowing the thoughts and actions to become unnoticeable in the everyday workings of life. Unlike other forms of prejudice, prejudice against women finds support in several creation myths allowing its perpetuity. Conceptions of women s bodies and sexuality provide a basis for discrimination and men s control over women, and by examining The Less Noble Sex by Nancy Tuana and Young, White, and Miserable by Wini Breines, a conclusion about prejudice against women is attained. The perpetuity of prejudice against women, that continues today, encounters origins in several creation myths. In a Greek creation myth, woman was created by Zeus as a punishment for the misdeeds committed by Prometheus and the rest of mankind. Zeus created woman â€Å"making her external appearance desirable in order to trick man into accepting the wickedness inside her. Although woman has the appearance of a goddess, this external covering, like Prometheus’s fat, merely disguises and masks reality – her thievish nature and her lies.† In the Christian creation, woman was created by God as a helper for man. Also, whereas man was made from dust, woman was made from one of man’s ribs; this has allowed theologians to focus on woman’s metaphysical inferiority and her