GENDER 10 Lecture 13: GS10 Notes: 5/10/16

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6 Sep 2016
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Major themes - emphasis on feeling over rationality. Capacious category - not just about emotions - feeling was about how you interpreted and engaged with the world. Fear, terror, loathing, feeling as the thing that allows you to connect with the others and the world. Uses of the erotic - is esp for women an important side of power. She doesn"t mean narrow sense of sexual pleasure but has sensuous joy that permeates everything you do. Could be building bookcase or writing a poem. Fully inhabit what you do - feeling bodily, emotional - is for her the erotic. In the book, emphasizes feeling, sensuousness, smells, tastes, touch as well as vision - important to her writing and work. Descriptions to these as well as how they look like. Emphasizes senses - attributes this to near blindness as a child. Embodiment - people now more recently talking about audre lorde as embodiment of disability.

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