Anna Goldsworthy’s essay. Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny is, overall, an insightful and elegant yet confused discussion of those mentioned in the title.
The title, Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and misogyny draws an immediate reaction from the reader. The crude wording is a bold move, and we are automatically invited to assume that Goldsworthy will be able to justify her argument from the title alone.
Goldsworthy opens her essay by giving a direct time, place and date to a specific event as her primary context, therefore, establishing the theme with, what began as, direct facts. The discussion that follows is sophisticated in tone, wording, and structure, however, this factor is not consistent thought as will be explored …show more content…
And why was this criticism not extended to Girls’ many precedents, ranging from Friends to Frasier? Could it be because white privilege here is regarded from a previously unsanctioned point of view, that of a young woman? And could this be related to the notion that women disqualify themselves from literary greatness by writing about female experience?’. This passage contains an unusual and somewhat unnecessary analysis, a trend she carries into her discussion of visual culture further.
While she has a lot of to say about online culture in her essay, Goldsworthy seems to not understand the social aspects - some of them positive, even emancipating - of media. For example, Goldsworthy missed the opportunity to better explore women's engagement with digital media in her section on Fifty Shades of Grey. A section that was misinformed and incorrectly researched.
Goldsworthy follows this with a detailed and lengthy discussion on the pornographic industry with Gonzo pornography as the main subject. The discussion length and depth of study into weren't unnecessary. There is obvious relevance, however, Goldsworthy took considerable effort in exploring the topic deeply and in result, it was somewhat strange and out of
The title, Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and misogyny draws an immediate reaction from the reader. The crude wording is a bold move, and we are automatically invited to assume that Goldsworthy will be able to justify her argument from the title alone.
Goldsworthy opens her essay by giving a direct time, place and date to a specific event as her primary context, therefore, establishing the theme with, what began as, direct facts. The discussion that follows is sophisticated in tone, wording, and structure, however, this factor is not consistent thought as will be explored …show more content…
And why was this criticism not extended to Girls’ many precedents, ranging from Friends to Frasier? Could it be because white privilege here is regarded from a previously unsanctioned point of view, that of a young woman? And could this be related to the notion that women disqualify themselves from literary greatness by writing about female experience?’. This passage contains an unusual and somewhat unnecessary analysis, a trend she carries into her discussion of visual culture further.
While she has a lot of to say about online culture in her essay, Goldsworthy seems to not understand the social aspects - some of them positive, even emancipating - of media. For example, Goldsworthy missed the opportunity to better explore women's engagement with digital media in her section on Fifty Shades of Grey. A section that was misinformed and incorrectly researched.
Goldsworthy follows this with a detailed and lengthy discussion on the pornographic industry with Gonzo pornography as the main subject. The discussion length and depth of study into weren't unnecessary. There is obvious relevance, however, Goldsworthy took considerable effort in exploring the topic deeply and in result, it was somewhat strange and out of