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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Phallocentric"”.
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The Conditions of Emergence: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of The Origins of Life
… concerning the origins of life. I argue that a phallocentric scientific and theoretical framework—in which one term, one mode of being, is privileged and becomes the “universal” at the expense of all others—is incapable of addressing the emergence of life out of matter on Earth. A phallocentric …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… questions whether vulvar works can disrupt the phallocentric models of exclusion, absence and lack. Working from a poststructuralist perspective and drawing on notions of the feminist nomad and transdisciplinarity as a related methodology (Braidotti, 1994), this project assembles the criticisms …
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The Riddle of Turandot
… subjectivity within the constraints of a phallocentric language. In my essay I will show that the fictional portrayal of older women is even more problematic in view of ageist attitudes inherent in Western society and directed primarily at women. In fact older women rarely appear in …
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Gender-Based Ideology in Film and Literature: The Fantastic and Related Genres
… to protect the homogeneity and closure of the phallocentric text after the propaganda inherent in the fantastic was revealed.
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Mythic Contexts and Marginalized Figures: Unveiling Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetics
… the female image, particularly in opposition to phallocentric metaphors for the female body.
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Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications
… made against "Le Viol" as an image which affirms phallocentric language and discourse rather than disrupting them, I argue in this paper that the drawing in fact exposes the mechanisms by which female sexuality is formed and controlled within phallocentric language. In exposing these …
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Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
… the myths with the female voice, undermining the phallocentric take on rape by writing it from the victim's point of view.
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Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass'
… and autonomy and effectively challenge the phallocentric theories commonly applied to Greek and Roman gender and sexuality, the Penetrative Model associated with Foucault, and structuralism, associated in classics with French historians Marcel Detienne, J-P Vernant, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. …
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… the sapphic initiation of Fanny Hill into the phallocentric world of prostitution and the subordination of female sexual agency to the sexual potency of male genitalia in John Cleland's Fanny Hill. The third chapter will investigate instances of male-created families through homosocial bonding …
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Feminism, psychology and the work of Charlotte Mew
… desire, subtly but significantly, undermine the phallocentric status quo. I acknowledge the problematic elements of Mew's work, particularly with reference to her male narrative voice and her preoccupation with unrequited love. However, I will suggest that both stem from the absence of female …
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The edges of the Unsaid: Transgressive practices in the Fiction of Kathy Acker
… of female sexuality, and Acker's focus on phallocentric language as a source of subjugation is also considered. The study then argues for and interrogates Acker's move towards a more affirmative narrative strategy before looking in detail at her fiction of the 1990s - fiction which, until …
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Memoirs of My Vulva: An Exploration of Female Genitalia as Figures in Autobiographical Graphic Narratives
… with feminist theorists, the research transcends phallocentric limitations to encourage a diversity of women's subjectivity. Within an autobiographical methodology, my practice actively engages in feminist discourse, offering a critique of gender inequalities and a reinterpretation of feminine …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… image as a form of subversion of the dominant phallocentric discourse, proposing alternative modes of visualities. The thesis examines visualising these different modes through film installation by examining slow motion, the sensory experience of wind and water, surface and textures, …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… from a representational language based on the phallocentric. The presented image-making strategies aim to destroy the normative understandings of visual pleasure, using colour and the belief in the power of the erotic (Audre Lorde 1984), to enable new ways of thinking through black and white …
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Recrafting the hologram: A practice-based investigation into the feminisation and democratisation of holography through a glass-maker’s lens.
… laser in the 1960s. It can be argued that the phallocentric attitude has created a hostile environment for newcomers, particularly those not of a white, cis-gendered man background, ultimately contributing to the perceived, justified or otherwise, “insecurity” (Pepper, 2013, p.1) of this skill. …
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Becoming beauty : the implications of the writings of Luce Irigaray for feminist art practices
… Irigaray's analyses of the visual, including phallocentric structures of sight and visible representation. The possibility of a syntax in the Symbolic appropriate to women is explored. Building upon this, Part 2 engages moments of contemporary art practice by women with further aspects of Luce …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… hegemonic libidinal zones, and extends phallocentric culture. Lesbian motherhood as a site of QWM reveals the participants' negotiations, conflict, stress and agency in relation to the 'good mother' discourse that undergirds mothering practices in South Africa. Their counter narratives …
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METHODOLOGICAL EMBODIMENTS:: PSYCHICAL CORPOREAL PERFORMANCES OF SUBJECTIVE SPECIFIC AUTO[EROTIC)-REPRESENTATIONS
… This neglect has resulted in the construction of phallocentric frameworks that not only misrepresent women as a 'model' of disease and lack, but problematically foreclose the possibility of symbolic agency for a/the woman. The relation between materiality and image as regards representation is …
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Sex, Metaphysics, and Mental 'Dis-ease'
… (sexual) demise of man’s essential being; this phallocentric misconception impelling a history of further misconceptions of essence, and of the metaphysical theories and binary logic based upon it. Through the construction of a genealogy and critique of various historical (re)conceptions and …
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A Casa dos Afetos: mulheres rurais e a performance/escrita de si como forma de resistência
… academic space with the purpose of dismantling phallocentric signs in the social imaginary and spreading the power, the desire for becoming that is still alive in the House of Affection. The thesis is a wattle and daub house...
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