in:
Bloomington:
1999
,
70 - 82 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Cataldi, Suzanne Laba |
| In: | |
| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| This essay relates scenes from Beauvoir's novels to her views of female eroticism and frigidity in "The Second Sex". Espressions of frigidity signal unjust power relations in Beauvoir's literature. She constructs frigidity as a symbolic means of rejecting dominance in heterosexual relations. Thus frigidity need not be interpreted, as it somentimes is, as a form of bad faith. The essay concludes with some thoughts on the relevance of Beauvoir's view of frigidity to contemporary feminism. | |
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