ENG 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orgasm, Hypertext, Language Change
7 Jul 2016
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***double enchantment, reading of the female protagonist , and the reading of the antagonist. She suggests that one of the core elements in fairy tales is that women are very passive. Females are being controlled (father) by one male figure and then by another male figure (husband). Erotic fiction strips away from the formal romantic elements and reduces it to sexuality. The idea of the romantic, how the fairy tales suggest how women and men should be behave, and courtship rules, Females as property, men have power in these societies and one of the way they express this is through exchange of women. Certainly the context in which these stories emerge out of is patriarchal. Problem of when that exchange (marriages) takes place. Socially enforced version of rape- arrangement marriage of a young women hominids the sexual act which will be traumatic.
