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- 821: Death And The Maiden - Film Vs. Text Comparison
- ... careerist rationalisation. Polanski makes Paulina throw the car over the cliff-edge. In doing this she is not only destroying a phallic symbol, and thus undermining Roberto’s sexuality and any claims he has on sexual dominance or superiority, she is destroying a perfect symbol of the male thirst for power and control, and the pragmatic logic to which her need for revenge has been sacrificed, into the infinite, chaotic abyss ... I drop the gun all discussion will cease…you’ll use your strength to win the argument…") to act aggressively. The gun is another phallic symbol; hence much of this aggressive behaviour takes on a sexual quality. Unlike Dorfman’s play, Polanski does not try to make us accept, without a struggle, the simple truth that to victimize our tormentors is to sink to their level. We get the general feeling ...
- 822: Grunge Literature
- ... and her quest for love. It has been hounded as anti-feminist because it portrays women as weak, pathetic victims of themselves as much as of the patriarchy yet it writes under the guise of sexual reclamation, Justine masturbates at least once a chapter and the novel drips with an amazing variety of bodily fluids. This could be classified as a political novel because of the way it involves the readers ... grind and political contention of The River Ophelia, Ettler's new novel Marilyn's Almost Terminal New York Adventure reads sweetly and cleanly. Ophelia was full of sex, self-abuse and indecision; Marilyn's only sexual reference is a teenage memory. There are no genitalia in sight and Marilyn has at least a snippet of self-integrity. It's a neatly woven stream-of-consciousness daydream. Ettler speaks of it as ...
- 823: Girl, Interrupted
- ... As diagnosed by the clinician's bible, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," this condition could be the human condition, for it consists of "uncertainty about several life issues, such as self-image, sexual orientation, long-term goals or career choice, types of friends or lovers to have" - what one of Caisson's therapists called "people whose lifestyles bother them." Certainly, Caisson suggests , such uncertainty is the normal state ... I do." "Hmmmm. Hypochondria." Kaysen's own example discusses the commonplace of "desolation, despair, and depression" among teen-agers. However , she also exposes enough of her own unnatural behavior (a suicide attempt, compulsive self-bruising, sexual promiscuity , seeing weird messages in linoleum and rug patterns) to justify the tagging diagnosis of mental illness that remains for the rest of one's life. "Girl, Interrupted" is more than a '60s period piece ...
- 824: Women in Africa
- ... of being, recognized by the court as non-negotiable" (Allman, 201). Furthermore, the men believed that once money was exchanged from the groom to the bride's family, marriage began, and the man had exclusive sexual rights over his wife. Many women, on the other hand believed marriage to be something very different. One woman in particular, Afuah Buo, thought marriage was "‘a process. . .tenuous and fluid in nature'" (Allman, 201 ... that could be easily moved in and out of; which was equated to prostitution by the chiefs. Therefore, because "chiefs and elders were articulating a new definition of marriage that upheld the husband's exclusive sexual rights over his wife, while minimizing or discounting completely the husband's reciprocal obligations toward that wife", women stopped marrying (Allman, 201-201). It is not true that all of the women had the same ...
- 825: The Modern Men's Movement
- ... to criticize qualities that have previously gone unnoticed. "To old complaints about male brutality or insufficient attention were added new ones... More recently women have become freer to criticize male lack of emotional sharing and sexual incompatibility." (Stearn, 163) Most feminists recognize that the male movement is a response to their changing wants and needs. Most men, likewise, recognize that a change in their own behavior is needed to promote the ... be altered, just hidden. Today's society strives to hide or change personal features to fit self perception as well as a wanted public image. People change hair color, eye color, and now, even physical sexual characteristics to fit the way they want society to see them. Is the new men's movement just a reflection of this trend? Men have been bashed through the 1970's and 1980's. As ...
- 826: Darkness At Noon
- ... is a world-renown hypocrite. His extramarital relationships have shown him to be a hypocrite of various categories. At one time he said to Monica Lewinsky, his latest mistress, that he can’t do any sexual activities with her on a Sunday because it is a holy day. However, in his actions, Clinton is showing no respect for his beliefs whatsoever. Instead is subtly denouncing them by having an adulterous relationship ... and change. Clinton has also been trying to put up a false front of a faithful and innocent husband all throughout the Monica Lewinsky trial. He even said publicly, that he "did not have a sexual relationship with that woman [ Monica Lewinsky]. In Sex Advice for the Clinton Age [ New York Times Magazine ], Clinton is also labeled as a hypocrite of marriage. After it states that, this article goes on to ...
- 827: Damsels In Address
- ... begin to intertwine them with their own budding personalities. Boys begin to see women as weak and Girls may interpret these behavior traits as indicative of their being the lesser part of relationships with men. Sexual roles, although not overtly discussed within the pages of fairytales, becomes the focus for these young people. Marcia Lieberman reiterates the idea of inherent roles stating, "a picture of sexual roles, behavior psychology, and a way of predicting outcome or fate according to sex"(Lieberman, 384). As they grow older, the children may begin to fall into the roles they discovered in the fairytales; boys ...
- 828: Gustave Courbet's Reclining Nude
- ... could be almost anyone. She gazes wistfully at the ground to her left. The woman is rendered very softly and is in a very sensuous pose. This picture would have been found scandalous for its sexual overtones as was Courbet's La Demoiselles au bord de la Seine. A scarlet cloth lies in front of her; it has a very rumpled look which has sexual implications. The vacant, wistful look and the languid crossing of her arms suggests that she is thinking of a lover who has just left her. The careful shadowing of her facial features leads one to ...
- 829: J.M Coetzee's "The Harms of Pornography"
- ... Civil Rights and Speech" she states that "the harm of pornography does not lie in the fact that it is offensive but that, at least in developed societies, it is an industry that mass produces sexual intrusion, access to, possession and use of women by men for profit". MacKinnon approaches pornography not from a "moral" standpoint, but strictly from the "political" point of view that says pornography is a threat to ... s article you may find that "Sex", throughout history has been more than merely a method of procreation. In Demac's article it is also stated that the editorial and news press at times found sexual content the only way to keep the political news interesting. Based on Demac's article, sex has always been sort of a "mystery" or something dark that nobody liked to talk about, and yet everybody ...
- 830: Sex and Agression: Whip me, Beat me, Make me feel like an IDIOT!
- ... subdued hatred for men or to attain that feeling of power one gets when they conquer something. Another issue is the cathartic effect this type of expression has as a means for deterring non-consensual sexual activity. This statement was illustrated best by the man who had psychotic thoughts and feelings and used this as a means of "getting things in his head right", if he had not had this mental and sexual release he could very well have committed some sort of heinous crime against humanity. So I may not agree with these people or even see the soothing capabilities of this “therapy” but that does not ...
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