Julia Kristeva

1. Personal conviction translates into action because when you strongly believe in something, you are more likely to take action due to your passion for it. For example, Erin personally connected with the residents of Hinkley and this fueled her decision to take action against PG&E in order to help the residents. In the movie, Erin first met Donna, a Hinkley resident, to inquire about her PG&E medical records. After finding out about Donna’s history of tumors, as well as PG&E’s claim that the…

one example of the many committed and just like Antigone, Julia Butterfly Hill also stood up for what she believed in. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, civil disobedience is “the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.” Antigone and Julia Butterfly Hill both emanate this idea and are selfless women who have benefitted their communities for the greater good. Julia Butterfly Hill and Antigone are both humble women who…

person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.” There are dozens of great environmentalists that have changed the world today. One that stuck out in particular was Julia Hill. Julia Hill was a woman who at the age of 22 affected the Redwood forest in a spectacular way. Julia was born in Mount Vernon, Missouri on February 18th, 1974. She spent the first ten years of her life playing outside of her father's travel trailer at campsites. Their family traveled across…

On a fall day, back in November of 1997 a lady who went by the name of Julia Butterfly Hill headed on a trip to California’s Redwood National and State Park. While visiting the forest Julia was captivated by the beauty and natural history of the forest to the point that she felt a spiritual harmony with her surroundings. In just two short weeks to Julia’s dismay she found out that a great social injustice was occurring the same forest that she had just visited. Pacific Lumber, a local logging…

Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray have differences in each of their philosophical foundations. However, do these two women agree that a fear of a female body has different forms of women’s oppression in Western culture? Julia Kristeva verbalizes about bringing the body back into the discourses in the human sciences, the significance of the maternal body, and about abjection. Luce Irigaray verbalizes about the “new” feminine language to allow women to express themselves verbally. Both women…

In the Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva analyzes the concept of the abject in terms of the subject (self) and object (other). Abjection is one’s reaction when faced with taboo elements, because society perpetually implements this notion that, in order to be whole and pure, one must abstain from committing actions that are against the law, or in religious terms, one must abstain from sinful acts; Kristeva writes that “abjection persists as exclusion or taboo (dietary or other) in monotheistic…

like Simone De Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Kate Millet, Betty Friedan, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigarayand many others carried on the fight for the equality of women. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949), Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) and Kate Millet's Sexual Politics (1969) are books that advocate this view. The writings of Toril Moi and Julia Kristeva have widened the scope of feminism. They challenge the biological determinism that said that…

criteria existing which determine whether you fit in into social ideologies or not. First of all, it is important to underline and explain the existence and meaning of the abject itself. In her famous essay “Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection”, Julia Kristeva comes across issues of how to actually define the abject, yet she says that she is “beset by abjection, the twisted braid of affects and thoughts I call by such a name does not have, properly speaking, a definable [object]” (1). As…

The term intertextuality was coined by the post structuralist Julia Kristeva in 1960 and since then it has been widely accepted by post modern literary critics and theoreticians .She says that readers are always influenced by other texts. Basically , when writers borrow from previous texts ,their work acquires layers of meaning. In addition, when a text is read in the light of another text, all the assumptions and effects of the other texts give a new meaning and influence the way of…

elicits disgust as we see the rotting body mounted for everyone to see. The corpse is considered abject because it shows the boundary between life and death. It is one of the ultimate reminders of our mortality. The corpse is “death infecting life” (Kristeva, 1982). The potential for us becoming corpses is within us at all times. It shows how our bodies are constantly doing everything to live and yet inevitably this will all stop as death “infects” the body. This film makes use of this reaction…