Phallus

There are many elements of this novel that should be taken into account when deciding whether or not it will be one an individual would enjoy. First, if anyone is uncomfortable with his or her own sexuality this is not a recommended read for you. This book contains conversation and ideologies of different topics of sexuality both commonly and uncommonly known. If one is uncomfortable with homosexuals, pedophiles, or masturbation then this book will not be of interest to you. Another thing to…

No Hip In The Wild Tren Linsley Violence and chaos, is used, in conjunction with symbolic aspects, and binary opposition as literary tools, in “No Church In the Wild” to show fundamental problems with gender inequality in society, pointing out the irony that men are the ones with all the power, yet are ones who use it for violence. “No Church In The Wild” in this sense is a very overzealous example of “hipster” counterculture. The video opens with a relatively still shot of a man holding a…

One of the debates that emerged from the brutal and vastly covered in media, The Delhi Gang Rape (2012), was if Bollywood promoted rape culture through its item numbers critiquing the male gaze on women’s bodies and questioning whether the hyper-sexualization of Bollywood’s actresses served to normalize sexual harassment. The new trend being, the asexual, good Indian girl (who ultimately is coveted by the hero) constructed against the sexualized item-girl and one instantly thinks of the…

The movie Inglorious Bastards by Quentin Tarantino begins with a Nazi officer investigating rumors about Jewish stowaways hiding on a small French farm. This intense scene provides the viewer with information regarding the background of the story if they understand film analysis, psychoanalytic and sociologic concepts. The camera work in this scene both foreshadows events and establishes power for our main antagonist of the film, Colonel Hans Landa. The unique way in which the scene is filmed…

bodies to conform to one or the other (4). Kessler explains that the primary factor in determining whether to surgically reconstruct an intersexed baby to conform to either a female or male body is the responsiveness and developmental capacity of the phallus (11). She suggests that this is due to the presence of cultural norms which enforce “rigid aesthetic and performance criteria for what constitutes maleness,” and, by extension, femaleness (20). Because there is no meaningful, reliable method…

Traditional and shocking sometimes is not promising; Spike Lee’s 2015 film, Chiraq, is a hit or miss for audiences based on background knowledge of the Aristophanes’ Greek classic, Lysistrata. Although Lee keeps the same plot structure of classic comedy and adds new male characters, his lack of Lysistrata’s original famous wool metaphor has left the film fall flat. Lee’s views on the importance of the upcoming presidential are just lost in translation. In ancient Greece, the point of comedy was…

In recent decades, a great deal of scholarship has emerged regarding the topic of mythological and fairy tale appropriation in Eudora Welty’s various works, especially in her short story collection The Golden Apples. Secondary to her utilization of myth and fairy tale is the accompanying gender role reversal evident in her re-structuration and characterization of the traditional tales that she chooses to interpret. However, the fact that scholars like Rebecca Mark, Joseph Millichap, and Lauren…

Yu Tin Liu Professor Champion Arth 1381 30 March 2017 Art History Museum paper "The rape" and "The Red Model" was a work created by an artist called Rene Magritte during the early twentieth century. Both measuring approximately thirteen inches in length. This beautiful yet disturbing painting, automatically attract the viewer's attention and drag them into the masterpiece to figure out the combination, connection and motions of the art piece being displayed on the wall. It plays with the…

Sexuality- Research Paper Sexuality is a person?s sexual curiosity and desire for other people; their ability to have sexually stimulating occurrences and responses (Defining Sex, Gender, and Sexuality). In this paper, we will explore the different theories that have tried to explain the concept of sexuality. Those theories are the psychoanalytic theory, the learning theory, the social exchange theory, and the cognitive theory. Sexual dysfunctions will be talked about as well (Theorectical…

A gun tends to be a masculine image while “a loaded gun” (1) would give the image an even stronger masculine phallus in the image of a young man, primed and ready with youth. “If cultural participation can shape sexuality, as Foucault among other post-structuralist thinkers has argued, then Dickinson exposes how sexuality can shape our cultural participation”…