It seems as though sexuality can be claimed by women, but only to the effect that it serve to keep them within the boundaries of a particular form. By making an effort to defeat the established attitudes about sexuality in their society, they indicate that there are forces at work against them. Their attempts to reclaim their own sexualities are coloured by an enforced heterosexuality that is both enforced and reproduced by the community, as is made clear by the comments made to a presumably overweight woman who had not asked for any commentary on her own
It seems as though sexuality can be claimed by women, but only to the effect that it serve to keep them within the boundaries of a particular form. By making an effort to defeat the established attitudes about sexuality in their society, they indicate that there are forces at work against them. Their attempts to reclaim their own sexualities are coloured by an enforced heterosexuality that is both enforced and reproduced by the community, as is made clear by the comments made to a presumably overweight woman who had not asked for any commentary on her own