Page Signed Statement Abstract Introduction Chapter 1 : the Patriarchal Gaze 1. : Is it male? 2. : Fetishism and voyeurism 3. : the masquerading gaze Chapter 2: the male body as erotic spectacle – women and sexual looking 1. : alternative gazes 2. : Can women look at men? 2.3: ‘the fourth look’ Chapter 3: Feminist counter cinema and Queer cinema 3.1: the avant- garde theory film 3
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Throughout the term of her life‚ a female experiences certain rites of passage that mark her advancement from a good girl‚ into a young lady and from this‚ into an adult woman. These rites are not correlated to any specific individual or event‚ but rather highlight the common themes found in the female experience. In this discourse‚ I will illustrate how the scenarios in Lynda Marín’s work‚ “Her Rites of Passage‚” are synonymous with the rites of passage all women encounter. In other words‚ I will
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enemy‚ but her story is one that is still remembered today among her people. Her hair is transformed into woodbine‚ a medicine‚ and her body produced honeysuckle‚ known as the "blood of brave women" (Myths 253). The image of a youthful warrior in this story is significant because it shows the failure of the old to lead in times of crisis‚ when the community is just short of becoming a wasteland. Similarly‚ in Where the Girl Saves her Brother‚ a Cheyenne myth of courage‚ a young woman saves her young brother
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a point of view.In the one act play Triles written by Susan Glaspell and the short story “ A Jury of Her Peers” the Literature element ‚point of view comes into play with each piece.While both Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” have different points of view their events and theme are fairly similar.However the point of view still effects each of the pieces. Although Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” are different genres the events are the same . Because Trifles is a play the events are told
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film‚ Her by Spike Jonze‚ Theodore is challenged to view change in the dynamics of how relationships can aspire to be. The event that I want to discuss is a climatic event in which Samantha wants to partake in a service that provides a sexual surrogate for an OS-human relationship. Theodore agrees to try‚ but in the end doesn’t want to have sexual relations with the surrogate claiming that it felt strange because he doesn’t know or have feelings for the surrogate women. The women locked her self in
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of Beth‚ is that she looks professional. This is due to clothes she is wearing. Another positive of the way Beth presents her evidence is the fact that she makes it clear that she does not know the answer to some questions‚ such as when she is asked about other forms of synthesis and does not make it up. This is because it shows she knows her limitations‚ which prevents her from giving false information to the jury. However‚ this could also be perceived as that she does not have up to date knowledge
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2. The two authors in this historical document experienced differing yet unexpected hardships. In Reverend Andrew Eliot’s letter to his brother he describes “a season which promised the greatest plenty that has been known for many years” (242). Eliot wrote this as a reminder of how life was prior to the invasion. The change in tone from the beginning of his letter gives a clear indication that Eliot was not expecting to be robbed of the pleasures of harvest time by invading forces. In addition Eliot
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An Overview of Kamla Das’s autobiography and her poems Aasthaba Jadeja Indian women poets writing in English from Toru Dutt to Kamala Das reveal the mind boggling variety of themes as well as style that poetry is capable of offering. It needs to be remembered that poetry written by women need not be viewed only as feminist poetry. For the first time in Indian English poetry‚ the women poets of post- Independence and postmodern period portrayed in a subversive idiom their desires‚ lust‚ sexuality
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relationship with her husband Torvald. When readers first get an image of how their relationship is‚ it would not seem that bad. Once further into the play you see that it is just because Nora is submissive‚ and lets it be that way. The only reason she is loving her husband is because that is what she thinks she is supposed to do. Her husband will not let her expand as a person‚ and she just lets it happen. Women are constantly treated as a lower class among men. Nora is just as capable as her husband Torvald
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1 Critical Review No. 2: His Brain‚ Her Brain Abstract As Larry Cahill ’s article “His Brain‚ Her Brain”‚ points out there has been data showing a vast “...array of structural‚ chemical and functional variations” between the sexes; but does size matter? Lawrence Summers‚ former President of Harvard‚ thought so. Men ’s brains are 13% larger than women ’s brains‚ but does that really make them more advanced in math‚ physics and science? There are other anatomical variations and some of these
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