The notion that femininity is a masquerade, or a matter of acting out a role, was originally advanced by Joan Riviere in 1929. The idea of a masquerade is often invoked in protests against the compulsion to conform to masculine (26) of femininity. Observing the behavior of a particular type of intellectual women, Riviere notes that, (27) such women hold positions that are conventionally described as “masculine,” they habitually seek approval from father-figures by (28) an exaggeratedly feminine or even flirtatious mode of behavior. The deliberate display of femininity is interpreted as a propitiatory ploy designed to (29) aggression and retribution from men who sense that such 【英語試題 共 6 頁，第 2 頁】 women have usurped a masculine role. For the women (30) , it is a way of overcoming the fear that the father will take his revenge.