Cinderella Complex: Theoretical Roots to Psychological Dependency Syndrome in Women (2024)

The Representation of Women’s Dependence on Men in Little Women

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2022

This study aims to describe the representation of women’s dependence on men in Little Women. The descriptive qualitative approach was applied in this research. The data for this study were gathered from the talks of the characters in the novel’s Little Women. The data of this research are collected from Cinderella Complex syndrome through their actions and words. The research results showed the level to which characters are affected by the Cinderella Complex varies depending on how the Cinderella Complex influences their thoughts and behavior, either consciously or unconsciously. Meg's most dominant Cinderella Complex is Fear of losing femininity, and the most dominant factor is self-concept. Jo’s character showed only rely on man as the aspect and persona maturity as the factor. Meg and Jo were unconsciously reflected by Cinderella Complex syndrome.

Cinderella complex on working women

Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Management (INSYMA 2019), 2019

Wicked Women: The Menace Lurking Behind Female Independence

Something Wicked This Way Comes. Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness. Eds. Colette Balmain and Lois Drawmer, 2009

Female Identity between Personal Independence and Patriarchal Authority: An Anti

Route education and social science journal, 2018

Over the last two centuries certain concepts like freedom, patriarchy, and independence acquired considerable significance. In keeping with the occupied nations' movement toward liberty and independence came the issue of women's demands to be liberated from the dominant tradition of enslaving them and locking them up in their houses. In the family, the traditional image of the father as the domineering figure was no longer considered in society. Hence, Feminism called for treating women on equal terms with men in almost all aspects and fields of life. This radical alteration was mainly caused by political, social, and intellectual factors that came to not only reshape the position of woman in society but also to modify her own self-image in accordance with her newly-discovered identity. Such change was evidenced in the writings of some distinguished English novelists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This paper is mainly dedicated to discussing Henry James's Washington Square (1880). Though James throughout this end-of-era-novel rarely states clearly whether or not the heroine's drive is for personal independence and self-will, there are signs showing that such female independence and liberty should always be triggered by and coupled with maturity. In other words, if women are by no means mature enough to have a step forward towards self-improvement, they must, then, be kept under the authority of male figures.

The Conscious Desire Dependon Man Shown by Main Characters in Little Women's Novel: The Overview of Cinderella Complex Disorder in Literature

2022

Cinderella Syndrome "Women with Fear of Independence": Developing a Scale

International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021

Cinderella syndrome is a concept which is used to define woman who fear from being independent. Women with Cinderella syndrome are in the need of men’s refuge and protection. The syndrome is like a psychological dependence for women and in this dependence, situation being patient and moral is important for being rescued by a man as a reward. In the syndrome women expect a man to come and take control of their own lives so that they can live happily. The aim of the study developing a scale into Turkish culture to determine the level of Cinderella Syndrome in females. The Cinderella Syndrome Scale is a 5-point Likert Type scale which includes 25 items. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to define construct validity and three factors were determined, called “sexist attitude”, “escape from responsibility” and “quitting career”. According to EFA, three factors describe 54,69 % of the variance. Results of EFA were validated by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The Cronbach...

A Woman in a Man's World

An understanding existed in families that women would take over certain duties when men could not perform the tasks, because of either their duties in government or business. Women helped keep the shops and farms, which their husbands typically managed. The women in colonial Pennsylvania were not much different from their counterparts in other colonies in how and when they found opportunities that expanded their limited legal sphere of influence, which included entering contracts for property, participation in commerce, and comprehensive management of their households. Colonial women typically accepted their place in society without rancor. Society still expected women to live up to certain expectations regardless of their economic level. Almost every woman accepted her subservient position in the family and community. Her religious beliefs defined her through her daily responsibilities as she maintained a household and bore children, all while she deferred to her husband in all things. A woman could and did work in the male sphere while married, but she did so in her husband’s name unless and until she petitioned the court for the right to do otherwise. Despite society’s convention to marry, some women did not. They took advantage of the freedom the law allowed them in matters of business. Widows in particular no longer had a husband in their life to help with certain tasks commonly associated with men. The widows who chose not to remarry supported themselves and their children with businesses commonly managed in their homes.

Lives of women who became autonomous

Journal of Personality, 1985

Single women in story and society

2014

Beyond adaptive preferences: Rethinking women's complicity in their own subordination

European Journal of Philosophy, 2022

An important question confronting feminist philosophers is why women are sometimes complicit in their own subordination. The dominant view holds that complicity is best understood in terms of adaptive preferences. This view assumes that agents will naturally gravitate away from subordination and towards flourishing, as long as they do not have things imposed on them that disrupt this trajectory. However, there is reason to believe that ‘impositions’ do not explain all of the ways in which complicity can arise. This paper defends a phenomenological account of complicity which offers an alternative explanation.