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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"sexual difference"”.
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Sexual Difference as Narrative Technique: Cross-Dressing, Redressing, and Undressing Female Protagonists
Throughout the twentieth century gender study has been a site of considerable social debate, stress, and change. The social forces which have destabilized gender identities are by now widely acknowledged--ranging from early twentieth century American and English feminist movements struggling for …
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Beyond commemoration : the 2-28 incident, the aesthetics of trauma and sexual difference
This dissertation considers three questions arising from the annual commemorative art exhibitions of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan in 1947, where the Chinese nationalist coloniser systematically eradicated Taiwanese intellectuals and massively victimised the civilian Taiwanese population …
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The Genealogy of the Concept of Situation in Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-49: History, Oppression, and Sexual Difference
… the way it relates to history, oppression, and sexual difference. Proceeding from this assumption, this dissertation outlines an original framework to comprehend how Beauvoir’s perspective became more and more political through the 1940s. In doing so, it aims to contribute to the ongoing …
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Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's existential phenomenological psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli
… all inter-subjective relations are subtended by sexual difference, and that forgetting this is ignoring a foundational aspect of human relations. For Irigaray, sexual difference is not mediated by biology or some ontological difference that culture identifies as "man" or "woman," but a particular …
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The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan
… and Lacan</em>, I argue for an account of sexual difference that responds to a tension in feminist philosophy, namely, the problem of the ontological status of the sexed body. In so doing, I turn to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. I argue that, rather than being antithetical, …
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… framework for exploring the performance of sexual difference in these works authored by women, but directed by men, and for investigating psychological thrillers, where issues of sexuality and desire are dramatised, particularly in relationship to death and the fear of obliteration. The …
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El Baile de los que Sobran. Literatura y Negatividad en el Caribe Hispano
… question celebratory approaches to racial and sexual difference. I argue that negative relationality constitutes and epistemological and aesthetic alternative to reevaluate hegemonic representations of the Caribbean, one that dwells on antagonism, excesses, and exceptions that constitute the …
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Unpresentable Members: The Theology and Radical Phenomenology of the Sexual Flesh
… that a proper account of the flesh and its sexual character may not only prove philosophically fertile within its own limited domain, but may also provide insight into the theological question of the proper role and place of gender and sexual difference within communities, particularly …
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
… migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. Home to more psychoanalysts per capita than any other country, Argentina emerged as a site of political asylum during WWII and of exilic dissemination during periods of …
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Queering the city: a social and spatial account of the Mother City Queer Project at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in 2003
… constitutional recognition of the right to sexual difference in the form of a location specific small scale "art party", patronised by the friends and peers of organisers architect Andre Vorster and artist Andrew Putter. Since its inception, the MCQP has grown in size and scale to …
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Destabilizing Machismo: Masculine and Feminine Constructions in the Theater of Susana Torres Molina
… (1999). In these two plays, the construction of sexual difference is portrayed as occurring within a masculine point of view, wherein it is explicit that men have the power to define, from a self-referential standpoint, their masculine identity, through contrast with a construction of the female. …
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Bishopness
… throughout her work regarding the concealment of sexual difference—a concealment she often takes part in. As the poems reveal, by putting emphasis on particular kinds of clothing, Bishop emphasizes the necessary—but flawed—methods for that concealment. Black stockings, gloves, sailors hats, and …
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Bishopness
… throughout her work regarding the concealment of sexual difference—a concealment she often takes part in. As the poems reveal, by putting emphasis on particular kinds of clothing, Bishop emphasizes the necessary—but flawed—methods for that concealment. Black stockings, gloves, sailors hats, and …
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Mainstreaming Martina : representing lesbians in the '90's
… indicative of a new cultural approach to lesbian sexual difference. This approach, "a homosexuality of no importance" (D. A. Miller), is a strategy of partaking of, and enjoying, lesbian difference while at the same time denying its importance and relevance. My theoretical analysis is conducted …
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"Travestis politiques": The gay value of Michel Tremblay's dramatic work in translation
… writes about gayness, despite frequent themes of sexual difference in his plays. In Hosanna , for example, he has suggested that the gay content is a metaphor for Quebec's aspirations to independence. In other plays, such as Les anciennes odeurs and Messe solennelle pour une pleine lune d'ete, he …
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"Too disconnected/too bound up": the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The time of the doves
… are viewed singularly along an axis of sexual difference, placing paradox as a trope for female identity risks reinscribing a closed system of oppression based only on male-female relations, thereby foreclosing possibilities for oppositional strategies organized around intersecting …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
Dominant understandings of sex, gender and sexuality align with patriarchal ideology that maintains misogyny, sexism and male supremacy. A critical feature of the aforementioned gender paradigm is strict mutually exclusive binarism and essentialism. By taking a queer feminist perspective on gender …
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The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers
… of erotic caressing, transcendence in eros, sexual difference, the affair between love and death, revisiting Plato’s Symposium, and, the erotic relationship with alterity. Having exposed these themes, and pre-empting a feminist critique of Levinas, I move on to the work of Luce Irigaray. …
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Sex, gender and genesis: A Cixousian exploration of language in the gay marriage debates
… masculine and feminine, result in a war of sexual difference. I explore these themes with a feminist deconstruction of Internet sites in support of and against gay marriage. I then utilize Cixous's feminine writing to approach these issues through short dramatic and autoethnographic texts; …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
… and ""not-all,"" which at once establishes sexual difference and renders structurally impossible the sexual relation. The final chapter on Othello examines the play's obsessive desire to trace desire itself to its secret hiding place in terms of the impossible Lacanian real, ultimately …
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