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Desire, Sex and Subjectivity: You've Got El even Minutes To Live!
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rakesh, Sheeba |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | The question of feminine identity has always baffled and even today continues to baffle literary and cultural critics alike. In the realm of cultural constructions and literary representations, identity very often becomes a way to denote one’s subjectivity (the catch being that it might not always be the case.) Being a prostitute, does not mean, that one would want (italics mine) to be one. Legal theorist and Social Historian Lawrence M. Friedman, in his work The Horizontal Society, directs us to the very crux of this issue of subjectivity –“That tension between choice and illusion, between imposed definitions and individual interrogations of them, and between, old formulae and new responsibilities” (Hall 2). In any feminist/gender based/sexual discussion no matter how recent, we tend to be “removed from the tangible and knowable, having vectors of desire that are only imprecisely describable” (Hall 106). But, our discussions of a female or feminine subjectivity in such cases only serves to point out our, cultural, personal, sociological and psychological shortcomings. It |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://hispanetjournal.com/Desiresexsubjectivity.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
