Castration

represents a return from the exclusively masculine sphere of war to the feminine sphere of home, with Penelope in Ithaca (5). A similar argument is made for Oedipus Rex, which, in Freudian tradition, has been interpreted as a narrative about male self-castration and crime against the patriarchal order. It is one of Heilbrun's main objectives in Toward a Recognition of Androgyny to offer an alternative to canonized literary criticism, and she points out that rejection of patriarchal traditions…

construct a third gender and are often referred as ‘the Berdache’ (Schnarch 1992). The same kind of notion of third gender can be found in India where ‘hijras’ form a third gender group. They are either intersex or made to be the third sex through castration (Lal 1999: 119). The notion of a third gender in a large number of non-Western cultures tells about how the concept of two genders is not actually fixed nor based completely on biological…

operating legal system in the world, torn between two opposing ideologies: Confucianism and legalism (China). Legalism believed that any social disorder, from scolding one’s elders to murder, should be harshly punished; from branding and tattooing to castration and cutting of the nose. As there were few official guardsmen to enforce these laws there was rampant civilian-on-civilian violence as the citizens themselves enforced the laws, which led to the rise of moralists that opposed such violent…

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone in the world would be a vegetarian.” This is a quote by Linda McCartney and it could not be more true. People do not really think about what happens to farm animals in slaughterhouses in order to provide for our human needs. They give us with food, materials, and have even aided us in medicine. It is clear that animals are essential to human existence and therefore should be treated with respect, right? Well, in all reality, this is not the case,…

One of the most prolific topics to come up when discussing World War II Dynamics is the Enigma machine. In a human war fought with human lives, technological advancements tend to dominate a fair amount of the discussion aside from the soldiers and leaders. Weapons and vehicle advancements are well regarded and have museums dedicated to them as they were a large part of what made this war so hard fought. It is important to make light of the somewhat hidden truth that behind every technological…

Sothern horrors is a pamphlet produced by the author Ida B wells detailing the barbaric nature of southern lynch laws in the Jim crow era of the United States. In it she details what she believes to be some of the main issues that caused the toxic environment for African Americans during these times. Issues such as white supremacy, and preserving the apparent honor of white women were the main causes of the lynchings she discusses within her paper. Her intent in writing this paper is quite clear…

Health, Superintendent of the Raleigh State Hospital, and another Superintendent of a State Hospital besides Raleigh. A major duty of all Board members included approving application for the four types of sterilization: for males, a vasectomy and castration, while for females, salpingectomy and ovariectomy (Kickler,…

Throughout the novel “The Sun Also Rises,” by Ernest Hemingway, the characters are often represented as “lost” both mentally and physically, in negative and positive ways. This is evident when Brett announces, “I won’t be one of those bitches,” exclaiming that she is finally coming to realize who she wants to be and what she wants from a man(247). This is negative because she was “lost” and was abusing her self-worth proving that she was physically misusing her body, but mentally she thought she…

Self In the world we live, we are forced to conform to the laws that are imposed on us by our society. There is little to no say in the matter, and it has been this way for a long time. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey we see a group of people who are deemed by society as mentally ill. These so called mentally ill persons are constantly forced to conform to their society standards, and therefore are judged for their different behavior. In his book Ken Kesey present a…

sales representative that I had seen in class on the movie Second hand lions, yet he is someone who works with potential customers and previous customers hands on to demonstrate many things. Jason has worked with vets and operators demonstrating castrations, treating foot rot, and asset vets in euthanizing…