Female Sexuality: Compare And Contrast Essay
Female empowering sexuality can look like many different things depending on different people. To me empowering female sexuality look is embodied by Beyoncé because she is a black woman that defines her power and her femininity on her own terms. Although class, religion, caste, culture, and ethnicity manage and control female sexuality to some extent, Beyoncé somehow manages to transcend these things in her own way. Through her music philanthropy and her own ideas on what make her a feminist, Beyoncé embodies female empowering sexuality.
Religion sets sanctions on female sexuality because it lessens the importance of women and puts them in more subservient positions to a man. Jen’nan Read’s article To Vail or Not To Vail, pro vailing women …show more content…
Women are expected to be beautiful and pretty beings and nothing more because they do not want the man to be threatened by their intelligence or job. In Shiela Jefferey’s Keeping Women Down and Out, women in the strip club industry are discussed and their use of striping as a “transgressive” act. In one instance the article discusses how women “Striptease” which “enables women to reverse roles and have power over men” Pg. 419. While this may be an exercise of a transgressive act and it can be said that women do profit more from men in this interaction, it still focuses on the pleasure of men and women having to compromise themselves for men. Beyoncé’s husband is also an entertainer and has about the same wealth as her and in the black culture black women have often been seen as a threat because they are so independent and “intimidating”. In the case of Beyoncé and her husband, it does not seem to be an issue because she is just as wealthy and successful as her husband. Also even though Beyoncé has a husband she is still seen as a singular being without him and sometimes arguably the bigger star. Beyoncé is inspiring to women because she is not just a subservient wife to her husband but a women who has a career and a family and chooses that for
Religion sets sanctions on female sexuality because it lessens the importance of women and puts them in more subservient positions to a man. Jen’nan Read’s article To Vail or Not To Vail, pro vailing women …show more content…
Women are expected to be beautiful and pretty beings and nothing more because they do not want the man to be threatened by their intelligence or job. In Shiela Jefferey’s Keeping Women Down and Out, women in the strip club industry are discussed and their use of striping as a “transgressive” act. In one instance the article discusses how women “Striptease” which “enables women to reverse roles and have power over men” Pg. 419. While this may be an exercise of a transgressive act and it can be said that women do profit more from men in this interaction, it still focuses on the pleasure of men and women having to compromise themselves for men. Beyoncé’s husband is also an entertainer and has about the same wealth as her and in the black culture black women have often been seen as a threat because they are so independent and “intimidating”. In the case of Beyoncé and her husband, it does not seem to be an issue because she is just as wealthy and successful as her husband. Also even though Beyoncé has a husband she is still seen as a singular being without him and sometimes arguably the bigger star. Beyoncé is inspiring to women because she is not just a subservient wife to her husband but a women who has a career and a family and chooses that for