If a woman feels sexually harassed, encourage her to tell the man directly. How do I know this will work’ Well, when two feminists compiled the sexual harassment stories of 100 women, every single man who was told by a woman directly that she felt his behavior was harassing her stopped immediately.33 All of the […]
День: 14.10.2015
What women see as blaming the victim, men see as taking responsibility
If a man touches a cocktail waitress on the rear, he can expea a lawsuit — even though she’s making tips from getting him drunk. But had fans touched Elvis Presley on the rear while he was walking down the street at night in his stage outfit and Elvis had sued the fans, he would […]
UN operation in Somalia, 1992-95
It is now more than 10 years since US marines landed on the beaches of Mogadishu in December 1992 to lead Operation Restore Hope but the ensuing events have gained new significance since the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Some have suggested that Osama bin Laden, incensed by the US intervention, saw […]
Women’s Rage
Feminist anxieties about constructing vengeful heroines through rape-revenge narratives in the 1980s circle around eroticizing rape scenes and, hence, perpetuating a victim syndrome while masquerading the revenge as female agency.15 I propose that a historical approach might be helpful here. Comparing these films to their antecedents—the classic Aradhna-style victim, or the inscription erasure in Teesri […]
POSTFEMINIST PLEASURES IN FEMALE SPECTATORSHIP
The ambiguity in the term ‘female spectatorship’ can be seen in many of the debates outlined, and is addressed by Christine Gledhill in her article ‘Pleasurable Negotiations’ (1988). Gledhill (1988:67) contends that ‘Female spectatorship elides conceptually distinct notions: the “feminine spectator”, constructed by the text, and the female audience, constructed by the sociohistorical categories of […]