Phallus

Theories of a “third gender” have become prominent in New Kingdom Egypt case studies in the last few decades. However, Matić argues otherwise on any evidence for ambiguous genders outside the dichotomy. From the New Kingdom ancient Egyptian era comes the Tale of Two Brothers (Matić 2016, 177). The story explicates how a figurehead named Bata describes himself as a woman after cutting off his own penis after having been accused of adultery (Matić 2016, 177). Matić concludes that binary gender…

sexualized bodies and that is the women’s sole purpose. They are selling their product through promoting a lifestyle that the men wish to have. In addition, the bottle is aggressively cutting into her thighs and the top of the bottle resembles a phallus which suggests male dominance over…

In his essay “Bronze Sculpture in the Hellenistic East,” Matthew P. Canepa argues that Hellenistic bronzes, as objects of material culture, offer insight into the cultural exchanges happening between the Hellenistic world and various other ancient cultures. According to Canepa, Greek visual culture “served as prestigious means of display and communication within and beyond the lands of Alexander’s former empire” (83). The iconography of the bronze sculptures remained inherently Hellenistic, yet…

Through a perverse pornographic letter Erika asks to be gagged, disciplined, and punished. After Walter rejects this outlandish scenario, he shames her and leaves. After which Erika confused and conflicted seemingly takes back the imaginary phallus from the letter and has a schizophrenic outbreak with her mother, reverting back to being the father figure tries to have carnal relations with her. Due to her original oedipal relationship with her mother, her rejection and alienation from society…

feelings toward Walter through fellatio and uses her intellect to control them. Also, there is no climax reached which supports Haneke’s divergence from the mainstream media’s raw portrayal of sex to a more abstract vision. Castration of the symbolic phallus in an earlier home bathroom scene allows Erika to transfer it to the letter which she alludes to in the next…

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With the rise of gay liberationist movement in the post-Stonewall era, overtly ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ perspectives began to be put forward in the nexus of ‘new gender studies’. If ‘queer studies’ as an umbrella term has already raised an entire set of questions and issues about identity, sexuality, race, desire, and gender, ‘black queer studies’ attempts to zoom in the fraught relations among and between these often overlapping narratives of black and queer identities. Work on ‘men and…

Psychoanalytic analysis is an approach to analyzing media artifacts in order to understand how the human drives for pleasure and desire play a role within them (Ott & Mack, 2014). The main premise of psychoanalysis is that people are behaving in a certain way due to the unconscious desires, needs and fears. One of the psychoanalytic elements important to the mass media communication is the male gaze theory. In this paper, I will explore how the male gaze is challenged and why are there…

Gender roles and masculinity are social themes that are frequently discussed in our society and apply uniquely to Latin@ culture. ‘Macho’ is simply the Spanish translation of ‘male,’ but it has taken on connotations that relate to having masculine qualities. In the context of Latin America, ‘machismo’ is a term that relates to male sexuality; it is “a concept that dictates many aspects of Latin American male behavior,” (Kobashigawa). Such qualities are performative in that men and women are…

Additionally, he argues that Jake only performs the role of traditional masculinity, but his sexual performance “subverts this paradigm,” in that the woman “[possesses] the phallus so he can receive it” (Fantina, 94). In short words, Jake is on the receiving end of sexual relationships. However, Fantina points out that Jake recovers his phallus in that he has Brett, unlike the complete men who desired her (96). He also elaborates about the idea of heterosexual sodomy in the novel, in how Jake…