FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heterosexuality, Metrosexual, Bell Hooks
17 Oct 2016
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Look @ survey monkey this week to vote for what movies you want to write your assignment about. Gaga feminism is a politics that brings together meditations on fame and visibility with a lashing critique of the fixity of roles for males and females. It is a scavenger feminism that borrows, steals, and inhabits the ground of stereotype and cliche all at the same time . Miley cyrus: her brand is not fixed, some say she is an amazing feminist, some are very critical. In western culture, there is something broken about heterosexuality. This script of heterosexuality is something that we need to remove. What if : what are the ways in which heterosexualities are dangerous. The heterosexuality we see in mainstream popular culture is problematic. There are very rigid gender roles (women = sexual prohibition/restraint, men= free flow and direction of desire) Women should not/do not experience sexuality and need to constrain male sexuality (this model is very limiting)
