Atwood discusses the several genres of fiction that are available in this time and explains how this is not only a time of gender crossover but of genre crossover. By using the comparison she shows how literature has evolved as well as gender relations. In conclusion Margaret Atwood’s speech “spotty handed villainess” is a speech that explores the flaws in extreme feminism, challenges the patriarchal order and examines the intentions of literature and fiction. The speech still has relevance today as it examines gender roles and expectations in modern day
Her art pertains to surrealism, and relates to fantasy, horror, female sexuality, and the subconscious. Gaskell’s work fixates in the mind somewhere between our dreams and our child-hood memories. Although each of her photo series contains a reoccurring story, she confuses the viewer by simultaneously taking the photographs. The narrative events resemble a journey without a beginning or end, which is what sparks many interpretations. Unlike many photographers, Gaskell’s work is a metaphor for something else and instead illustrates the manipulation, and dark side of adolescent girls by using ongoing themes of identity, sexuality, and curiosity.
Usually her style involves the cropping of a magazine or newspaper image enlarged in black and white. Addressing issues of language and sign, Kruger has often been grouped with such feminist postmodern artists Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Martha Rosler, and Cindy Sherman. Like Holzer and Sherman, in particular, she uses the techniques of mass communication and advertising to explore gender and identity. Much of Kruger's work engages the merging of found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text
ENWR-105-BX 18 November 2013 In the essay “Female Chauvinist Pigs” by Ariel Levy, the author argues that women participate in practices that are responsible for their oppression. Levy’s argument is that women participate in “raunch culture” as means of embracing sexism and exploitation toward the idea of gaining empowerment. While some woman like Sheila Nevins, feel empowered and liberated by aspects of raunch culture, other woman like Tyra Banks, co-producer of ANTM, is discussed in “Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas” by Jennifer Pozner using racist stereotypes in order to gain power. The judges in the show say they try and promote inclusive beauty standards actually reinforce racial stereotypes. Women are willing to participate in practices that oppress them because they want power.
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture MAC 101 Discuss (with reference to critical reading) the importance of any TWO of the following concepts for an analysis of media texts, and demonstrate through analysis of an excerpt from a media text how you would apply these concepts in your own discussion Stephen Wright This essay will set out to investigate how women are represented in action movies. The films I will mainly study in order to gain an understanding of this subject will be Casino Royale and Sin City. Both of these films have a tendency to depict women in a derogatory way. To do this the term representation will be investigated to understand its full meaning. This essay will focus mainly on the feminist attitudes towards the gender representations.
In order to communicate the significance of such a question I will consider aspects of Freud’s symbolic order and feminist criticism of patriarchal discourse as well as the categorisation of women therein. I will use these selected theoretical aspects in conjunction with specific instances from Hart’s narrative in order to effectively examine a process of fictionalisation. As a point of departure I will briefly discuss the problems inherent within this said rigid discourse and in what ways the notions of gender related trauma emerge from its violence. I will relate the notions of trauma as defined by Cathy Caruth to the above mentioned problematic discourse and, furthermore, draw on LaCapra’s concept of acting out and working through as approaches to dealing with trauma. In historical discourse the focus is on men and the furthering of mankind through their achievements.
Kilbourne 2 Jean Kilbourne is a feminist author, speaker, and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. She has a popular essay piece called “Two Ways Women Can Get Hurt”, in this particular piece her main argument is that men and women are misrepresented as sex symbols and tools. The media puts women on display that dehumanizes them; the media also shows that women are usually submissive against men. In Judith Lorbers essay called, “Believing is Seeing”, Lorber argues that men and women are different biologically, that society can’t just label human beings as male and female. Lorber also says that not all people are completely men or completely women.
In “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” Jean Kilbourne believes, that sexism and violence in advertising is systemic and rooted in our culture. She assert, that "In the past twenty years or so, there have been several trends in fashion and advertising that could be seen as a cultural reaction to the woman's movement, as perhaps unconscious fear of female power. One has been the
Selecia Pugh Group 2 Presentation 3/25/2010 Gender Criticism Feminism became a dominant force in Western literary studies in the late 1970s while Namoi Schor estimated that around 1985 feminism gave way to the term “gender studies” (Schor275). 1. She chose that day because it marked the publication of Between Men, a book that articulates the insights of feminist criticism onto those of gay-male studies. 2. Today gay and lesbian criticism is so much a part of gender criticism that it be equivalent to “sexualities criticism”.
The feminist analysis of Roman Fever This paper takes the short story "Roman fever" as an example for the text analysis, discussing the two protagonist from a feminist point of view. Through subtle descriptions by Wharton, the story shaped the irrational female image due to jealousy in women relationships and revealed women's love life under the influence of patriarchal ideology in the western society. Moreover, this paper criticizes the hypocrisy of the upper class and calls for women's self-awakening. Key words: Edith Wharton, roman fever, feminist criticism, patriarchal consciousness, self-awakening. 1.