castration fantasy
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Sexualized racism/gendered violence: outraging the body politic in the Reconstruction South.
... in which a former slave confronted the choice between death or castration, here, by his own hand. (220) . In one of the few first-hand accounts of ... the totality of these events, the klans appear to have harbored a fantasy of extermination, a fantasy that was occasionally given voice. Benjamin ...
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Therapists' liability to the falsely accused for inducing illusory memories of childhood sexual abuse - current remedies and a proposed statute.
...confused fantasy with reality that she could report fantasy as fact and . use appropriate ...Only child molesters are subject to chemical castration.(80) . Compounding this uniquely demonizing stigma, which places an ...
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Richard Wright's Black Medusa.
...Observe, that we have here..the same origin from the castration complex and the same transformation of affect! For becoming stiff [das ... 'real,"' gets "worked over in all kinds of ways by censorship and fantasy." (15) While it is in their power to suppress the body, to cover its ...
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Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871).
...SHAW . Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 255 pp.; 24 color ... Reed with the occasion for a Lacanian riff on the painting and castration anxiety, again in part at least on the basis of an iconographic ...
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Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India.
... is the phenomenon of transsexualism, the internalized or acted-out fantasy or desire (and, with modern surgery, the fact) of changing the sex with ... in which a real or surrogate son is punished, typically by castration or impotence, for intruding upon the sexual life of his "father."(90) In ...
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ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: TEN YEARS OF FACT AND FICTION.
... of Judith Decapitating Holofernes "purely as an expression of fantasy revenge against a rapist," [13] a lot of psycho-babble has distorted both ... represent the valued products of this event [childbirth]; if a castration, then these objects represent the genitals of the murdered general. And, ...
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Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.
... way Sheriff shifts thematic gears to examine nymphomania and castration anxiety instead of motherhood or hermaphroditism (as in The Exceptional ... readers, masturbators, mystics, and nymphomaniacs--who confused fantasy with real life and gave themselves over to their passions" (p. 199). . ...
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Recent books of interest.
...2002. 224 pages. Paper $19.95. . David L. Eng. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity In Asian America. Duke University Press. 2001. 290 .... Robert Seguin. Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction. Duke University Press. 2001. 210 pages. Cloth $49.95. ...
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Hamm, Michael J. v. Weyauwega Milk, 061403 FED7, 02-2529
... the motives for disliking the nonstereotypical man or woman is a fantasy. Inevitably a case such as this impels the employer to try to prove that ... For a heterosexual male , such slurs are tantamount to verbal castration (emphasis mine)as if they were unwounding when directed at a ...
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Ohio's sex offender residency restriction law: does it protect the health and safety of the state's children or falsely make people believe so?
... after they have serve prison terms, and requiring chemical castration. (56) Certain cities even prohibit sex offenders from entering parks, ...(236) Id. . (237) Beyer, supra note 63. . (238) Candace Kim, From Fantasy to Reality: The lank Between Viewing Child Pornography and Molesting ...
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The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography, and Sexual Harassment.
... its usefulness as a heuristic for dealing with this element of fantasy as it bears on evidentiary issues in sexual harassment claims. In fact, ...that of a man haunted by his own castration anxiety" (p. 160); or "Sexual harassment is an indicator of terror, not ...
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Oppression, lies, and the dream of autonomy.
... enslavement of fellow humans, as well as the dismemberment and castration of African-Americans who tried to escape from bondage. Let's also talk ... white Americans expend daily to create and maintain this twisted fantasy of America's past and present? Given this context, to what extent can ...
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Pedophilia in the correctional system.
... sexual attraction to children, with an erotic arousal pattern and fantasy life centered on them. Just as males who prefer women as sexual partners ...New York: Plenum Press. . Rundle, R.H. 1996. Will "chemical castration" really work? Wall Street Journal. (19 September). . Squires, S. 1986. Who ...
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Chix nix bundle-o-stix: a feminist critique of the disaggregation of property.
...This sense of loss is castration.(41) Specifically, we long for immediate relations and union with the ... -- the Feminine -- becomes purely the Imaginary object of men's fantasy; woman becomes a symptom of man.(220) . We Imagine an Imaginary object, an ...
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New encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: gender, race, and the origins of cubism.
... the artist's production of the painting in terms of his rampant castration anxiety: "The Medusa (castration) metaphor . . . best accounts for . . . .... Although the female body figures in male fantasy as mapped by Freud as a castrated body, it is not thereby simply a figure ...
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APOCALYPSE IN THE ANDES.
...That is a Western fantasy that gets projected on indigenous people all the time. Rather, people are ...Apart from whatever symbolic castration is involved, surely this practice has meaning with respect to the problem ...
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MARGINAL SOULS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
...Is it Melania or just someone who looks like her?" The narrator's fantasy (or glimpse, or memory) of Melania tells us very little about her, but ..., she insults and humiliates them, thereby performing a symbolic castration. For Alda, on the other hand, the bicycle is power and ...
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Why do we still read Homer?
...He showed that Homeric society was neither pure fantasy, a mythic never-never land, nor pure sunbaked Mycenaean reality, but a ...His blinding has been equated with castration. On the other side, some have seen the Cyclops as a noble savage whose ...
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Liberal originalism: a past for the future.
...: such a premise dooms racial equality to being a permanent fantasy. If all enunciations of principle are inextricable from their temporal and ...'s revised code of laws for Virginia punished homosexuality by castration. This, however, was actually a liberalization of a law which had punished ...
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Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History.
... psychic syndrome, a male disavowal of femininity, or a fear of castration as Freud would have it, operating within male subjectivity in the ...His political and social yearnings - the "bourgeois" fantasy of the free, sovereign subject - were, on the other hand, at the heart of ...
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Choosing sides in the cultural war.
..., in the racist Tuskegee syphilis study, and in programs using castration, lobotomy, and electroshock against gays. And scientific collaboration in ... a gay man glancing at another man might, in fact, have a different fantasy in mind altogether--assuming sex was on his mind at all. One soldier ...
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The pioneer spirit and the public trust: the American rule of capture and state ownership of wildlife.
...(43) Poaching food in the forest, meanwhile, was punishable by castration, banishment, and even death. (44) Perhaps because of the occasionally, ... position as the owner of a private game preserve, and it is pure fantasy to talk of 'owning' wild fish, birds, or animals. Neither the States nor ...
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Rape in the criminal justice system.
...based on false rape accusations.(612) . The rape-fantasy theory has disappeared from scholarly . discourse, supplanted by modem ...assault. Castration, whatever its defects from a humanitarian . perspective, prevents ...
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Projecting an Image: The Contested Cultural Identity of Thomas Eakins.
... brutal manifestation of Oedipal paranoia, homosexual dread, and castration anxiety on the part of a painter obsessed with writing, carving, cutting, ..., see Elizabeth Johns, "An Avowal of Artistic Community: Nudity and Fantasy in Thomas Eakins's Photographs," in Danly and Leibold (as in n. 14), ...
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Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet.
...More commonly, state laws called for sterilization or castration of moral degenerates and sexual perverts, mostly homosexuals. To "treat" ... by "similar emotions and beliefs, moments of ritual ecstasy and fantasy, and fascination with sumptuary pomp." (pp. 297-98) As applied to ...