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Women dress for women and secretly want the male gaze
The longer I live, the more it seems like outfits at work and in life are for female approval rather than for myself or some misplaced desire to get male approval. So tiring. Imagine how much money women would save if not for this thing we impose on each other.
Separately, women seem to want the m
... See moreMary Poovey, a materialist feminist—a feminist who focuses primarily on how patriarchal and capitalist assumptions force women into socially constructed gender roles—described this clearly. Poovey was attracted to deconstructive techniques for their ability to undermine what she saw as socially constructed gender stereotypes (the belief that such s
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
employs a capitalistic approach to the use-value of the bodies it displays, that is, the labor is cheap, flexible, and disposable.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
By consenting to these terms, Katia upheld a deeply unequal system in which girls circulated between men on men’s terms, while generating surplus value for them in the form of money, social ties, and status. This system is what anthropologist Gayle Rubin referred to, in her now famous 1975 essay, as “the traffic in women.” Rubin had sought to addre
... See moreAshley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Diese beiden Grammatiken helfen uns, das Paradox im Kern der sexuellen Befreiung zu formulieren: Das von normativen Zwängen und einer rituellen Struktur befreite Begehren blockiert die emotionale Entscheidungsfindung.
Eva Illouz • Warum Liebe endet: Eine Soziologie negativer Beziehungen (suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft) (German Edition)
Meine These lautet, dass dieses institutionell erzwungene und kulturell als Verheißung und Versprechung fungierende Programm der Verfügbarmachung von Welt nicht nur nicht »funktioniert«, sondern geradewegs in sein Gegenteil umschlägt.
Hartmut Rosa • Unverfügbarkeit
With shopgirls, department stores could harness what historian Peter Bailey termed, in his history of Victorian sexual culture, parasexuality. Writing about bar maidens, Bailey conceptualized parasexuality as feminine sexuality that is “deployed but not fully released.”