ENGL 111W Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antonio Gramsci, Mind Control, Rape Culture
3 May 2017
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Perkins gilman (author)was a well-known journalist, editor, poet, social critic and novelist who focused throughout her career on the status of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Herland only has women, they reproduce asexually. Darwinian evolution: the most prolonged and careful selection (42) and the law of mutation (66) With darwin we get the idea of the mutability of species that nothing in nature is what it is forever; that everything is changeable, changing, and conditioned by its environment. Van- middle-ground, person that readers will most emphasize with. Jeff and terry remain static, did not change their attributes. Terry is the poster boy for rape culture. Poor old terry! he honestly believed, that women like it (112). Believes they were all aryan, superiority of aryan race like nazis. Lacks intersectional thinking: thinking of multiple social frames such as race, gender, class, sexuality, age etc.
