Making it Ours: Queering the Canon |
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Page 19
... woman as saint . Lust shifted to men ; women became the bulwark saving civilization from male passion . Without the moral righteous- ness of women , who controlled men and kept them from destroying themselves and others in their blind ...
... woman as saint . Lust shifted to men ; women became the bulwark saving civilization from male passion . Without the moral righteous- ness of women , who controlled men and kept them from destroying themselves and others in their blind ...
Page 120
... women without recognizing that they are engaging in what gay viewers might regard as " gender fuck . " The purpose of the male beauty contest is parody , the contestants mocking whatever feminine they find in themselves or in the women ...
... women without recognizing that they are engaging in what gay viewers might regard as " gender fuck . " The purpose of the male beauty contest is parody , the contestants mocking whatever feminine they find in themselves or in the women ...
Page 121
... women writers were suspect , women characters - objectified to fit male stereo- types of what women must actually be - command the bulk of what he had to articulate . While he refused her an authentic female voice , he wrote male as ...
... women writers were suspect , women characters - objectified to fit male stereo- types of what women must actually be - command the bulk of what he had to articulate . While he refused her an authentic female voice , he wrote male as ...
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Seizing the Erotic | 23 |
The Sexual Predator | 47 |
Copyright | |
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