The Second Sex: Mythologies and Contradictions, “What is a Woman”? Racel Robles Phiolosophy 327 Professor Conway Woman, Wife, Mother, Lover, Slut, Bitch…is this what a women is, what she is defined to? In andocentric society, women have been place in many lights, from the “good mother” to the “treacherous whore”. In The Second Sex, Beauvoir breaks down the construction of myths created by men in society to establish patriarchal “supremacy” over women. Such myths, Beauvoir explains, are derived trough literature and Social beliefs.
This dehumanization of women is what provides men with sexual arousal for the reason that the women who are being portrayed are often being dominated, overpowered and abused by men, giving the consumers, who are mostly men, the feeling of power and control over women. This domination and abuse creates the perception that women are less than persons because women in pornography are the individuals who are being dominated, overpowered and abused, which then creates the view that women are weak, vulnerable and helpless and therefore they are not entitled nor deserve the same level of respect as men. The treatment and perceptions of women in the pornography industry transfers to all women as a class because the more women who are depicted as being weak, vulnerable and
Both settings reflect the characters goals and desires, and ultimately act as microcosms. The big house illustrates Esteban's need for political power, as the ship acts as a vessel for Ryuji to seek a death of glory. In House of the Spirits, after Esteban weds Clara, he orders his new house to be built akin to the 'new palaces of North America and Europe" (Allende 93). When Esteban and his family move to Trés Marias, Estaban still dominates this estate with brutality as he punishes villagers who speaks of left-wing ideals. As Esteban loses his physical strength, he attempts to gain more political power in the Conservative party, unwilling to lose what he had worked for.
Female Objects of Semantic Dehumanization and Violence William Brennan, Ph.D. ABSTRACT Now and throughout history, pejorative language has played a major role in the longstanding victimization of women. This study employs a comprehensive classification of degrading categories -- deficient human, subhuman, animal, parasite, disease, inanimate object, and waste product -- as a framework for analyzing the demeaning words invoked to justify man's inhumanity to women. It concludes with observations about how this pernicious anti-female lexicon of derogation is part and parcel of a pervasive seamless shroud of anti-life rhetoric called upon to rationalize violence against other victims (born and unborn) in contemporary society and in times past. A Longstanding Tradition of Oppression Against Women Subjection to a countless assortment of atrocities has been the common plight of all too many women throughout much of history. The parade of horrors has been virtually endless: the killing of female infants, enforced prostitution, the burning of women accused of witchcraft, widow burning, the reduction of women to sex objects through genital mutilation, the sale of enslaved females, wife-battering, the exploitation of young women as pornographic models, rape, father-daughter incest, and other types of sexual abuse.
Sade argues for the interrelationship between sexual and political freedom. How does Philosophy in the Boudoir engage with or dramatise this argument? Do you think it is correct? Argument continues today regarding the Marquis de Sade and the ambiguous representation of his works. For many, his material is judged as what some feminists would define as a “form of violence against women”, whose representations “eroticize male domination”, (Robin Ann Sheets, “Pornography, Fairytales and Feminism” 635), but for many readers of Sade’s work, once they see through the ‘smut’ and the erotica, there is often found by the reader an underlying message which is sometimes seen as radical, or one which was not elaborated further until many years later.
Helene Cioux: The Laugh of the Medusa The Laugh of the Medusa is about how women shouldn’t be afraid to express themselves through literature. The article is written from a feminist’s point of view. According to the article, women are afraid to write in a world that is controlled by men. I chose a paragraph from the article to summarize: “Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.
Sierra C. Nesmith Mrs. M English 3 2/11/14 “The inferiority label imposed upon those female sex is frequently intended to be a totalistic notion encompassing almost every aspect of women’s being – physical, mental, and emotional.” (Brennan, William, Ph.D.) (www.fnsa.org). Throughout history, women have been victims of dehumanization. Dehumanization is defined as the act of depriving a person of qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility. Realistically speaking, women were not looked upon as individuals but as products within man made organizations. Men were known to be superior species that were defined by power, however, in many aspects this ideal has proven to be false.
This in turn makes life even harder for young African-Americans because now they are looked upon as being a “potential threat” to a person’s life. This only increases the amount of racism against African-Americans because people believe what they hear and may begin to develop of fear of what is in rap lyrics. As rap has progressed and evolved, it has begun to lean more and more towards sexually explicit lyrics, which in turn has damaged the image of women. Unlike the “old days” or the so called “early stages” of rap, today’s rap music portrays women in a negative light through sexually inappropriate remarks. Critics of my position do not fully understand how women are being dehumanized by these lyrics and in turn are now being looked upon as sexual objects to our youth.
All the pent-up sexual frustration and emotion is then used to encourage hatred for the Party’s political enemies through ferocious displays of antagonism. The Party even brainwashes the citizens into believing that the purpose of marriage is to
Females have always been seen as objects when it comes to advertisements in the media. They are used as models to sell products for a company in which they have to expose their bodies in sexual ways to gain the customer’s attentions. Author Jean Kilbourne, who has spent most of her professional life teaching and lecturing about advertising, describes the violence of advertisements against women in her article, “Two Ways a Women can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence”. Kilbourne provides many different examples of how women are exploited in a pornographic way with men having power over the female. The thought of men being dominant over women has been shaped into people’s mind which the media influencing the idea.