ENGL108A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Adrian Alphona, Luce Irigaray, Roger Sabin
28 Sep 2017
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Female values: reform over punishment, self-sufficiency amongst women (not damsel in distress) Interest in relationships in character: fashion, social status, etc. Steinem says that women had minor character roles at best. Uper(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:862)riposte(cid:863: a priori vs. a posteriori (male comes first, female becomes subordinate, franchising. The striptease (climax decide to put on costume) Our traditional definition of heroism based on masculine models: opho(cid:272)les" a(cid:374)tigo(cid:374)e, euripides the trojan women, virgil"s quee(cid:374) dido (cid:894)ae(cid:374)eid(cid:895) Kamala is acutely conscious of how superhero narrative is largely alien to her background, she exposes the gap. Kamala interrogates the incompatibility of superheroine with reality: outfit gi(cid:448)es her a (cid:449)edgie, (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ear u(cid:374)der(cid:449)ear. Powers are not the great benefit she assumed they would be. Kamala is able/allowed to experience joy of powers and being hero (inconsistency with so-called (cid:862)(cid:373)ar(cid:448)el (cid:373)ethod(cid:863)(cid:895) Wwii: character turned into stripper comic, given to soldiers: (cid:862)the co(cid:373)i(cid:272) that wo(cid:374) the war(cid:863, kept british morale up.
