Andrea Dworkin

her book, Beauty And Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, Feminist Sheila Jeffreys espouses both theories, first claiming that bound feet were linked to the prospect of marriage, and then further joining the argument of peers like Andrea Dworkin by quoting “Through the crippling of a woman a man “glories in her agony, he adores her deformity, he annihilates her freedom, he will have her as sex object, even if he must destroy the bones in her feet to do it.” (Jeffreys 132). Though I…

femininity stereotypes and indorses violence contrary to females. The Anti-pornography Civil Rights Ordinance is a titled for numerous projected local regulations in the America and that was carefully related to the anti-pornography drastic feminists Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. It planned to extravagance pornography as a defilement of females' constitutional rights and to permit the women that are harmed by pornography to pursue compensations through litigations in civil courts.…

These types of movies were produced for a while but fortunately enough, we have left these type of movies behind and the representation of Native Americans has progressed. Today we have films like Rango and True Grit which although still don’t serve the ideal representation of Indians, have come a long way from how Native Americans were depicted during the era when stars like John Ford, John Wayne and Randolph Scott dominated Western Films. In Rango we have an Indian character who is known as…

Dissolving Normative Boundaries: Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales Fairy tales, as Jack Zipes argues in Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilisation (1983), adapted from oral folklore and initiated into the written literary tradition was a marginalized genre till the 1970s (1-3). With critics and readers becoming sensitive to the underlying politics of fairy tales, the selection and appropriation of specific tales from scores of popular…

Recently we have seen the constant debate of whether or not sexual media has and is affecting us as a society go into this major uproar. Not just by the parents concerned with the fact that the oversexualization of role models such as Miley Cyrus have influenced their children on how they act and what they wear. But it is also prevalent in the recent feminist movement known as, third wave feminism. The main goal of the third wave of feminism is to redefine the structure of the male dominated…

Both Steven Tracy and Thia Cooper deal with the issues of abortion though they stand on opposing sides. Where Tracy announces his pro-life stands Cooper vocalizes her support for legal abortion. In theory the two authors should disagree on most points, but this fails to be the case. Both argue that the main problem camouflaged within this debate remains the social injustice society inflicts upon its mortal pawns. Both find faults with the entire abortion debate not just the opposing opinion, and…

They say sex sells… and that is ultimately the issue. Sexual intercourse was once considered by society to be a private act, a physical pact made between two people behind closed doors. How did such a seemingly private act turn into such a lucrative business; when did it become acceptable for men and women to view their bodies as sexual commodities? In the primitive ages, it was necessary for cavemen to observe the act of procreation so that they could ensure the reproduction and longevity of…

Both novelists appear to be attempting to deconstruct the nature/culture and masculine/feminine dichotomy, by showing that a balance is needed. By looking at culture as the newly developing culture of progress through science, an explicit connection between science and culture – where men are in control of both – is created. Women are portrayed within both novels as 'natural' whereas as men portray a more cultural aspect of society, the authors are highlighting that a balance is needed between…

Departing from the romantic era 's focus on sublimity and the idea of a supernatural monster, the victorian gothic period focuses on a rather different kind of evil; that of the inhumane, instinctive criminal. This fixation on human monstrosity and its effects can be seen repeatedly in victorian poems, oftentimes with the man – or man equivalent monster – committing some kind of atrocity towards an undeserving maiden, who provokes said monster only by being a physical manifestation of purity,…

My chosen briefing paper is the '"Indecent" publications in shops' paper . This looks at the availability of soft pornography and so-called 'lads-mags' in newsagents and shops, and whether they should be banned. The paper specifically looks at the criticism from campaigners and groups such as the "Lose the Lads' mags" campaigners who believe the publications portray women as "dehumanised sex objects". However, the paper also looks at the guidelines that are currently in place for the displaying…