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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"emasculate"”.
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Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass'
… in horrific and chaotic ways that effectively emasculate their male prey, they do not fall within the same topos as other female witches. Instead, Apuleius’ witches appear to wield their magic in a way that allows them to maneuver through a gender restrictive society and claim agency that may …
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Fending off feminization : erecting gender/ed boundaries and preserving masculinity in 1930s British fiction
… transformed muscular, self-reliant laborers into emasculate, dependent idlers. The demise of industry (coal mining, ship building, and iron/steel working) turned symbolic garrisons of imperial strength and power into derelict wastelands. London's consumerism in the form of cheap goods and escapist …
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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
… body (e.g., that of a woman, boy, or an emasculated man, “gallus”) to demonstrate moments when the text is most at risk of theft or alteration; this vulnerability is especially applicable to pre-published texts. The research suggests that the figuration of a body of text as a phallically …