D ' Aulnoy's book has a remarkably similar structure to the Nights, with the tales told by a female narrator.

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

As is common in this genre, the author / narrator is given as female, and the perpetrators and victims are mainly women.

After an English recitation by male narrator, a female singer of the Greek wording is accompanied by an octet.

Here Chaucer evokes enormous pathos for the ' hoor and oolde ' Januarie, soon to be cuckolded by a manipulative female figure, a clear reversal from the horrific and repulsive figure painted by the narrator in the opening presentation of the man.

The narrator of Things Fall Apart states that " the crime killing Ezeudu's son was of two kinds, male and female.

The novels of Sarah Caudwell feature a narrator named Hilary Tamar, a law professor who is never identified as either male or female.

The " closer contact " sought by the narrator represents both the physical longing of intimacy as well as the emotional connection he previously had with the female described in the poem.

" Bakshi had wanted a female narrator for his film, and he loved Susan Tyrrell's acting.

The female narrator of this story wonders about her life and the sequence of events that make it up.

The narrator is a female author of erotic poetry, which she publishes without fully realizing how much attention she will attract from both critics and writers of alarming fan letters.

Although men are obviously important in the novel, Brown states that “ female figures — either Imoinda or the narrator and her surrogates — appear as incentives or witnesses for almost all of Oroonoko ’ s exploits ”.

Between the stories, a female narrator ( credited " The Voice of Cuba ") says such things as, " I am Cuba, the Cuba of the casinos, but also of the people.

" The narrator's identity has been a topic of discussion, with Clarke declaring that said narrator is female and omniscient rather than a future scholar from within the real storyline as some had suggested.

Around this time, Harry Armis is replaced by a female narrator.

Angelou introduces a unique point of view in American autobiography by revealing her life story through a narrator who is a Black female, at some points a child, and other points a mother.

When an inebriated old man also in the cell sings a passage from the Irish ballad " The Rare Old Mountain Dew ", the narrator ( MacGowan ) begins to dream about the song's female character.

The overarching theme of the poem is a dissuasion of the addressee Postumius from marriage ; the narrator uses a series of acidic vignettes on the degraded state of ( predominantly female ) morality to bolster his argument.

Taking this inspiration, the narrator explains that his female acquaintance can " never be like common people ", because even if she gets a flat where " roaches climb the wall " ultimately, " if called dad he could stop it all ", in contrast to the true common people who can only " watch lives slide out of view ".

Included in the rag-tag fleet of ships was a paddle wheel steamer laden with the brother of the narrator of the novel, his two female companions and other refugees from London.

In this original version of the Kaddish Symphony, Bernstein specified that the narrator be female.

" With the revision, Bernstein no longer specified the gender of the narrator, and recordings featuring both male and female narrators have been made.

In the first recording below ( which is of the original version for female narrator ), the narrator was Bernstein's wife, Felicia Montealegre, whereas in the second and third recordings below ( which were of the revised work ), the narrators were men, Michael Wager and Willard White.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

Many people regard bare female breasts to be erotic, and they can elicit heightened sexual desires in some men in some cultures.

Both male and female fleas hematophagy | feed on blood and can transmit the infection.

A female lays 8, 000 – 25, 000 eggs at once and the strings can stretch up to in length.

Although often appearing in stories as male, Coyote can be female, hermaphrodite, or gender changing, in traditional Aboriginal stories.

Within a week, the young can eat grass, but will continue to suckle — from any female in the group — until weaned at about 16 weeks.

A male and female can form consortship and mate outside their community.

Some adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing: blond ( male ) and blonde ( female ) or a bonie lad as compared to a bonnie lass.

Note that a dominatrix does not necessarily dominate a male partner ; a dominatrix may well have female submissives, nor must the role of a dominatrix involve pain toward the submissive ; her domination can be verbal, involving humiliating tasks and servitude.

" Milk stealers " that suckle from unrelated, sleeping females are not uncommon ; this often results in the death of the mother's pup, since a single female can only feed one pup.

This third perspective allows the male audience to take the female character as his own personal sex object because he can relate himself, through looking, to the male character in the film.

In addressing the heterosexual female spectator, she revised her stance to argue that women can take two possible roles in relation to film: a masochistic identification with the female object of desire that is ultimately self-defeating or a transsexual identification with men as the active viewers of the text.

The genre also deals with male / female categories, showing how female roles can differ from feminine roles.

Three DNA types are of particular interest: mitochondrial DNA that we all possess and that is passed down with only minor mutations through the matrilineal ( direct female ) line ; the Y-chromosome, present only in males, which is passed down with only minor mutations through the patrilineal ( direct male ) line ; and the Autosomal DNA, which is found in the 22 non-gender specific chromosomes ( autosomes ) inherited from both parents, which can uncover relatives from any branch of the family.

In humans, an ovum can carry only an X chromosome ( of the X and Y chromosomes ), whereas a sperm may carry either an X or a Y ; thus the male sperm determines the sex of any resulting zygote, if the zygote has two X chromosomes it will develop into a female, if it has an X and a Y chromosome, it will develop into a male.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the highest achievement any person can achieve is to become like the " great " female Buddhas ( e. g. Arya Tara ) who are depicted as being supreme protectors, fearless and filled with compassion for all beings.

This can be compared to Pausanias ' report that in the Ionaian city of Colophon in Asia Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as " the wayside goddess ", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in purificatory rites.

In some cases, male hamsters can die after being attacked by the female.

If captive female hamsters are left for extended periods ( three weeks or more ) with their litter, they may cannibalize the litter, so the litter must be removed by the time the young can feed and drink independently.

Rarely, large killer whale pods can overwhelm even adult female sperm whales.

Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra ) describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings.

A healthy female koala can produce one young each year for about 12 years.