ENGL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Adele Wiseman, Sephirot, Male Privilege
17 May 2017
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Seraphina (around 206): her way of being a prostitute is contrasted with hoda, makes us think of hoda as a business woman. As she matures she speaks about herself with pretend ignorance as to how she knows others would speak about her. The world around hoda is seen as . Based on male privilege and unwarranted access to female bodies. Summed up as prudish denial of the body: knitting squares in english school. Idea that ourbodieo are not shameful or the opposite of the sacred. The sacred is embodied in the earthly world; the divine is imminent (inherent) in the earthy world, rather than transcendent. In the moment of creation, god withdraws and contracts into in nite material and then pushes outward. Shards of the divine amount to a chaotic/confused human world. Paradoxical: there is a chaotic and shattered world we live in, but it is like a new birth (humans are created)
