CMST 2TM6 Lecture 11: Feminism Cont'd
16 Jan 2019
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Excessive femininity that makes femininity that makes femininity an obvious performance; distanced from patriarchy. Doane"s arguing that we see the traditional representation constructed as feminine. "diversify the pace and character of their habitual existence: Empowering -> happiness and promise of "utopian bliss" In contrast to "forlorn hope", within patriarchy, that the perfect heterosexual relationship, is possible and desirable in film/novel, but unobtainable in reality. Reactionary to patriarchal power - doesnt "change" anything. Even though romance novels give this "perfect fairytale ending", it is not real. It is okay to play with that utopian reality through these texts. Tania modleski: mass produced fantasies for women (1990) Train viewers to become "ideal readers . of people" (meaning perform hegemonic gender/sexuality roles) Structure viewers as either good mothers (and good to men), or evil "other" (and mean to men) Villain is negative image of the spectator"s ideal self. Fans: less able to articulate "why" they liked, and resorted to.
