Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
excited to be an old woman to be free from the pressures of being viewed as a sexual object “unless she is over the age of 35 or 40 she will be seen more as a face and body than as a fellow worker and fellow victim of oppression” - Chicana Feminist Thought
how movies about men are seen as universal where if it is a woman it is categorized as a
Superstar: the Karen carpenter story
Showcases themes and interest in filmography
Her use of drumming was interesting denoting her feminity
Use of barbie dolls was symbolic and grounded in feminst analysis
Tension between structure and agency
Foucault and the docile body
Body representative of the state
Obedient
Regimented
Trained
How power
“The passage from the state of Nature to the state of Culture is defined by man’s ability to think biological relations as systems of oppositions; duality, alternation, opposition, and symmetry, whether occurring in defined or less clear form, are not so much phenomena to explain as fundamental and immediate givens of social reality.”
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
“las películas, como los sueños, demandan la suspensión del juicio moral”,
Fernanda Solórzano • Misterios de la sala oscura: Ensayos sobre el cine y su tiempo (Spanish Edition)
I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means that feminism doesn’t belong to anyone in particular.
Angela Y. Davis • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The rules governing female appetite — for food, for sexual gratification, for recognition — are culturally constructed to regulate not only how women eat but also what women desire.
susan bordo, unbearable weight
For Beauvoir, the greatest inhibition for women comes from their acquired tendency to see themselves as ‘other’ rather than as a transcendent subject.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
