Naheed Mustafa’s is speaking to her sisters of Islam to pull away from western thought process of what is beautiful. She does this through using racially divisive hook‚ “I OFTEN wonder whether people see me as a radical‚ fundamentalist Muslim terrorist packing an AK-47 assault rifle inside my jean jacket”. Her tone is a sharp frustration of western culture. This literary style will most definitely attract people of her race and gender. “My Body is My Own Business” and “Chicken-Hips” discloses
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Women are significantly absent within Book I of paradise lost‚ not only not appearing but also not mentioned by any of the other characters. It could be argued that this makes the appearance of sin in the second book all the more powerful. Sin is the personification of an abstract concept which is presumed to be inherently evil. Yet the portrayal of Sin is arguably more as the innocent victim than the sinister predator. Sin was a ‘victim’ first of Satan’s own corruption which created her‚ then
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell tells the story of Winston‚ a man who lives in a dystopian society in which everything is controlled by the Inner Party and everyone worships the enigmatic leader known as Big Brother. Within this society Orwell establishes a sexist undertone through the way in which women are portrayed. In the novel‚ women are seen as being less competent‚ sexual objectified‚ and morally reprehensible. Orwell depicts women in Nineteen Eighty-Four as being less capable than
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Paul Hasegawa-Overacker’s “Guest of Cindy Sherman” documents his complicated and decaded long relationship with the famous artist Cindy Sherman. In the documentary‚ Paul situates himself as the guest of Cindy’s art world‚ but from the scene I am going to analyze will demonstrate how Cindy situates herself as the object of Paul’s desire. Cindy gives an invitation to become Paul’s sexual thrall. The first way Cindy demonstrates as Paul’s sexual thrall is by inviting him to her work environment. In
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portrayal of the post-feminist woman as a desiring sexual subject does not erase the idea that by allowing herself to be assessed‚ ‘Betty Sue’ is allowing herself to be objectified by men. Which as Gill suggests‚ ‘the objectification of male bodies has not led to a decrease in the objectification of women’s’ (104). Another example of ‘Betty Sue’ being objectified in this advertisement is the way she undresses. In the advert‚ ‘Betty Sue’ appears to undress to the invisible ‘male gaze’‚ because as Gill suggests
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to change Eliza Doolittle from a street vendor to a lady. It would be frivolous to comment on the treatment of women‚ as we are forced to take into account the period in which this play was written. Pygmalion is just another reflection of the objectification of women during those times‚ a representation on how women can be “changed” to the whim of man and the society man governs. Nevertheless‚ my intent is not to apply modern value judgments to non-contemporary fiction. I have dissected the play and
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Othello and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Comparative The transformation between Othello‚ a 16th century Shakespearean tragedy and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner‚ a 1960’s Romantic Comedy‚ can be compared by addressing themes that are present in each text. The theme of race can be used to compare the different attitudes of each context‚ surrounding the significant black characters of Othello in Othello and John in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner‚ and there interaction with white females that belong
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In an article by Beth Elise Schneider from the University of Massachusetts‚ she explains the results of a study done on sexuality in the workplace. The issues that women have experienced‚ according to this study‚ include sexual harassment and objectification. In some cases‚ women are even let go because men find their bodies “distracting’‚ when they should not be staring at women in a professional environment at all. This directly connects to my third point: men do not take women seriously in the
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The boys had a socialogicalfocus to state their heterosexuality and stall the stigma “Girly” sports. Asserting one’s superiority over a female-domain occurs in various female-dominated activities moreover in sporting events‚ since we have male-controlled society that is treasured above femaleness. This provides men the chance to take possession of establishments that were formerly female-identified. As author Williams (1987‚ 1995) discovered that men in female-dominated professions were compensated
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“John Steinbeck: Marxist Supporter?” Since the beginning of time‚ the world has been infected with human greed and hunger for power. However‚ only a lucky few are able to truly appease this desire and get to the peak of the economic hierarchy‚ while the majority of citizens scrambles at the bottom‚ hoping and praying for alleviation from the cruelties of the never-ending oppression in their lives. However‚ in the mid 1800’s‚ a man named Karl Marx decided that this perpetual cycle of difference
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