WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Herculine Barbin, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
20 Apr 2013
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There are 2 stories about adam and eventually: male comes first- female is created out of male. Story explains that men and women are different. History tells a very different story iclicker question 1. Naomi wolf: naomi wolf (b. 1962, women reduced to their bodies. The beauty myth (1991): the more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us . We are prone to sickness instead of a uterus, we are just a vagina. A vagina is a reflection of our female essence. Who w are as women can be reduced to the fact that we have a vagina. Brain-vagina connection : the vagina is a gateway to a woman"s happiness and to her creative life. return to freud"s argument that real site of woman"s sexuality= vagina [not clitoris]
