Phallus

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a portrait of a woman 's life from birth to death. The novel is supposedly based in fact, and possibly even loosely based off the real life female criminal Moll King (Howson 167). Stylistically, it 's written as an autobiography of the vivacious Moll Flanders, detailing the adventures her extravagant, action-packed, and dramatic story. Defoe uses his title character to explore identity, morality, and ethics through the…

After we had finished breakfast I began to clean up the plates, and that was when my mama had asked me if I was feeling okay because I hadn’t eaten all the much (Usually I would’ve wrecked me some pancakes and bacon.) but I just told her that I wasn’t all that hungry for some reason that morning, but I would save the leftovers for Step Daddy Cade whenever he got up. My mama, then gave me a worried look, but then left the kitchen to grab her purse and car keys wanting to take a trip into…

The morning of August 24th 79 A.D. started out as any other day in Pompeii. The streets were full of people trying to do their daily chores and activities, unaware that it was the day that would be forever engraved in history. The Pompeian settled in that area mainly because of soil and agriculture, but were also mesmerized by the beautiful location. They did not know the dangers of the neighboring volcano and so believed themselves to be very lucky to find such a place. The city of Pompeii, in…

The Medieval Magic of Love In Gottfried Von Strassburg’s, Tristan, the paradoxical nature of love is established when we’re told that prudency inspires Queen Isolde to brew “a love drink so subtly devised and prepared, and endowed with such powers, that with whomever any man drank it…[t]hey would share one death and one life, one sorrow and one joy” (192). Using oxymorons Gottfried is able to show that love creates contradictory conditions that are difficult to resolve. Appearing almost magical…

transgender • Othered -To treat a person or groups of people as different and alien to oneself. • Lesbianism -refers to sexual and romantic desire between women • Pens - figurative representation of the phallus Background of the Study The controversies surrounding the issue of homosexuality…

AL EXAM || WGS2500 || SPRING 2016 Multiple Choice (2pts each = 20 pts) 1. Abstinence only education: a. Delays first intercourse b. Reduces rates of teen pregnancy c. Reduces rates of STIs d. All of the above e. None of the above 2. Valenti argues that when women are pregnant their bodies are treated like: a. Basketballs b. Tea Kettles c. Fine China d. Public Property 3. Deborah Cameron, in her essay about names for the penis, argues that the names and metaphors used for the penis reflect…

Gender reassignment, sex change, sex reassignment surgery, or sex realignment surgery, regardless of what name is used, this process is lengthy and has many variables. For the sake of this paper, and most commonly, I will refer to the above mentioned as Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS). In essence, this is a procedure that permanently alters and reassigns ones born gender from male-to-female, or female-to-male. This might sound simple, however there are many things to consider when one is…

Modern society typically uses the term “feminism” to describe a movement, primarily dominated by women, intended to overturn the traditional patriarchal view of female inferiority—in a social, economic, or political sense—and ideally, to encourage equal standing between the sexes. However, the modern definition of “feminism” does not necessarily encompass all of the varied purposes of feminism throughout the past two centuries. The term itself “did not come into use in the English language until…

expected the women playing ‘men’ or rather ‘powerful women’ in Lysistrata are given hint of sexual representation. The roles reverse when the old men of the chorus attempt to burn the meddling women out of the acropolis. The men are given lit torches (phallus) as they try to force their way into the citadel gate, female gates shut by the women. Theatrically strategies like this raised the bar for comedy at the time and gave Aristophanes an edge during competitions as he incorporated choral and…

Sor Juana uses binary language in her poem “In a Lighter Vein” to explore the idealization of women by men. Sor Juana creates these binaries in order to critique this idealization and presents them in a dichotomous nature to clearly illustrate the indecisive and misguided needs of men. Sor Juana’s use of binary language aligns with French feminist theorist, Ann Rosalind’s categorization of binary language to be more of a masculine discourse, and thus could be argued that Sor Juana writes “In a…