WOMS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: White Coat, Televangelism, Tammy Faye Messner
20 Apr 2018
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2:46 pm: the importance of the bible passage from genesis 30:1-3, which is written a few pages before. Chapter 1: rachel cannot have children so they have someone else have a baby with jacob. If you are not bearing children: other women who has baby with jacob (handmaid); rachel says that it would be her child regardless, handmaid"s lives depend on pregnancy. First example of satire -- declaration of class and politics in england and ireland: she uses it to point out how bad things can get -- study of how things become absurd / normalized. Gilead, yet their goal is the same: to crack down on certain kinds of sexual freedom. In other words, the desire for control over sexuality is not unique to the religious totalitarians of. Gilead: burning porn -- all porn was considered exploitation of women, offred"s mother (radical feminist?) (cid:862)ge(cid:374)der treachery(cid:863, executing people who were gay.
