Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very readable fictionalized account of the events leading up to Quinn's murder. It is an examination not so much of Quinn's killing as of her past; the way in which the 28-year-old schoolteacher's life, filled since childhood with an unexamined selfhatred, led to her sexual seekings at Mr. Goodbar...
...classes--or, rather, enticing them to seduce him--while at the same time constantly condescending to them to maintain his power and stature in their eyes as well as in his own. To Theresa's perpetual fears of bodily imperfection, the professor adds feelings of intellectual and sexual inadequacy by becoming hostile when they make love or by pretending to be oblivious to her seductions. And he is the man who first indicates to Theresa that here is something wrong with her inability to have orgasms. But Rossner makes it obvious that Theresa is willing to remain involved with...
...frightening to consider all the social, political, sexual and cultural problems created by this new rejection, inherent in the women's movement, of the established social structure. Women are afraid, for it seems so easy to fall into the roles played by their mothers and grandmothers in their relationships with men. They can find themselves despising the men they live and work with, even men whom they think they love, because somehow, in their lives with these men they find themselves losing their equality and falling into the parts of kid sister, mother, madonna or whore...
That men are supposedly threatened by a woman obviously in control of her own life is a cliche used to explain away a thousand cases of impotence. What is more tragic, in the sexual mess we seem to find ourselves in, is the frustration which faces the man who wants to be a feminist. Sympathetic to the movement's struggle, he tries to change his conception of the sexual stereotypes with which he was raised. And he is confused and hurt when he finds himself facing a women's hostility, when he tires to cry "Yes, but I've felt...
...song is deeply moving, and yet not depressing, The singer is adept at finding earthy expressions of his sexual appetites, as when he refers to "getting something quick to eat/I'm just the same as anyone else/When it comes to scratching for my meat..." or later when he wryly informs us that...