The Beatles

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In her I want to hold your hand , Jane Tompkins narrates the impact of her exposure to music by The Beatles . She describes members of the infamous band as well as their music as androgynous , thus they helped women or rather women like her , to become more androgynous Androgyny , in its context , is a term used to describe gender identity applying to elements of the society whose gender roles or incriminations do not perfectly fit within

the constructs of masculinity as the society describes it , neither do such people fit well in feminine gender roles as constructed by the process of social evolution

The author of this article was , growing up , an introvert who , like most of her kind , are interested only in the formalities of life like education . Jane Tompkins was not interested in the things her contemporary peers were interested in and the gender role she played in the society was based on constructions of American popular culture of the 1950s under which gender roles were rigid . She talks about her perception of popular artists like the Rolling-stones as being violent beings who possessed the highest degrees of male chauvinism and its associated aggression towards the opposite sex

In the 1950s , gender roles were strictly based on guidelines virtually constructed by the society . There were the symbols of masculinity represented by ruggedness of the male being . Such qualities were exhibited in people like Gregory Peck , Rock...