Monique Wittig Essays

Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister In the essay “Shakespeare’s sister” Virginia Woolf asks and explores the basic question of “Why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age”. Woolf sheds light on the reality of women’s life during this time and illustrates the effects of social structures on the creative spirit of women. In the society they lived in, women were halted to explore and fulfill their talent the same way men were able to, due to the gender role conventions that prevailed during

In the Awakening Edna Pontellier was an unstable character, she upsets the expectations of the nineteen century women’s role. Chopin focuses on two females that influence Edna`s life and help her in what we see are her awakenings Both of these characters will represent the role of women’s in the nineteen century. Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz are the examples that the men around Edna contrast her with and who they obtain their expectations for her. Edna begins to see that the life of freedom

CHAPTER 2 GENDER PERFORMATIVITY: JUDITH BUTLER Judith Butler is an eminent and prolific writer, who has assumed an exceptionally powerful part in moulding present day feminism. She is Professor of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. She's composed broadly on sex and her idea of gender performativity is a focal topic of both present day women's rights and gender hypothesis. She has

Communication Event Actual Event The movie I’m going to talk about is Pitch Perfect, which is released on 24th of September 2012 in Los Angeles. This is an American Comedy Musical film directed by Jason Moore. Kay Cannon written the screenplay, based on the novel of Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory by Mickey Rapkin. The main characters are Anna Kendrick as Beca and Skylar Astin as Jesse. The other minor characters are Ben Platt as Benji, Brittany Snow as Chloe, Anna Camp as

Summary: In my rewrite of Romeo and Juliet, The Great Pink Sky follows the modern day issues of cultural bashing. Set in the modern day Anaheim, California, both Reed and Jillian face a cultural boundary that’s caused by Reed’s conservative parents that believe in the white traditions. Brought together by the school’s orchestra, Reed and Jillian become more and more close as senior year passes and is starting to come to a close. Reed, played by Asa Butterfield, is a seventeen year old boy who is

Yet in her essay, “One Is Not born a Woman,” Monique Witting broke from her nation’s Catholic roots in declaring that women were only able to transcend the oppression of their sex if they broke from men. While much of her argument persuasively dictates the system of women’s oppression, Wittigs’s dependency on monogamy revels a shortcoming in her theory. For once polyamory is introduced, the authority of lesbianism is called into question.

not just the Marquis staring at her, but many men looking directly at her, causing the heroine to feel like a piece of meat or a trapped prisoner on display. The heroine of the story is not the only character in the text that the Marquis sexually objectifies and constantly stares at, but also his dead wives. When the heroine opens the locked room, she discovers “the opera singer [lying], quite naked, under a thin sheet” (Carter 28), a skull that hangs “disembodied, in the still, heavy air” (Carter

When Spinoza talks of desire in Ethics, he talks of it in terms of ‘affects’, which is his attempt to subsume human passion into the realm of that which is ‘natural’. Desire is, therefore, for Spinoza is more than appetite insofar as it is the recognition and consciousness of one’s appetite. Thus, Spinoza’s conception of desire is one that is the ‘human essence’ insofar as it presupposes a human consciousness (as human consciousness is, after all, the ‘essence’ of being human) to make it felt. Hence

Three months ago, when I first identified myself as a critical thinker, it was one of the first times I have consciously considered my privileges and oppressions as they pertained to my identity as an able bodied, straight, middle class, light skinned, cisgendered, Mexican American woman. I briefly mentioned that although I am often mistaken as all white, I am actually also Mexican, and it was not until college that I became more interested to learn about this disclosed side of my family and their

Michael Lee December 2, 2014 Sociological Theory D. Harrison Analytic Memorandum #5 There are many women in my life that I respect and have love for, but the most important women in my life are my mother, younger sister (Crystal, 17) , and my first cousin (Andrea). All three of these women have lived completely different lives, having to deal with different pressures while growing into the women they now are. What has molded my mother into the woman that she is a combination of familial, social