Word: eroticized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Pi newsletter must be recognized for what it is: pornography in the feminist sense. That is, it presents the violent, sexual degradation of women as erotic. The pornography industry makes $8 billion a year depicting women in exactly the same way as the Pi newsletter. The danger of this...
This view of women is a particular kind of speech--an incitement to commit violence against women. The message could not be much clearer if there were posters all around campus proclaiming that sexual violence against women is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." This is the kind of speech which our...
Wanda: Try not to be cynical so early in a conversation, Ralph. Stanley just wanted to explore his sensuality. Once he did, he came to see that an in-depth relationship with one person is more challenging and erotic than casual sex with many.
Gortchakov and Eugenia travel around the southern Italian countryside, presumably to research the biography the poet is writing. Throughout, there is an erotic tension between the two. Nothing, however, happens--everything remains at the stage where emotions are present as suggestions and undertones, never as catalysts to action.
No erotic or pastoral turn can long allay the great sorrow of Irish history. Sometimes Heaney confronts it head on, as in "Requiem for the Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where...