Gender

I learned more of how Jane Austen and that time viewed gender. I learned that is was more than just sex, for  example being a male and being a female. There was a quote that really caught my eye, "One is not born a women, one becomes one". I thought this was really pivotal, and could help me in my paper. I can use this to show that in Jane Austen's time, similarly to today one has to grow up into a women or a man, they are not given that label at birth. At birth they are male, or female, boy, or girl. In my paper, I could show how gender is  manipulated in a female point of view to grow up and meet a man to get married, or also a male point of view, for example in the book Pride and Prejudice how Mr. Collins only wanted to marry Elizabeth so that she could keep her estate. I believe that although she denied, he had the upper hand in this situation  by manipulating that he had more power over her.