The Archives
Let’s Talk About…
Academic Artificial Intelligence Arts Candide Character Computing Machinery and Intelligence Creative Creative Writing Daniel Defoe Death Essay Fembot Feminism Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot Feminist theory Femme Fatale Fiction Film Film Noir Flash Flash Fiction Gender gendered body George Gynoid Halloween Harriet Jacobs History Horror Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Information Inspiration In the Lake of the Woods Janey Place Joss Whedon Judith Butler Kate Chopin Knowledge Library Library Science Literacy Literary Literature MLIS Moll Flanders Movie Movies Music nature New York Non-Fiction Norton Juster Painting Personal Phantom Tollbooth Philosophy Play Poetry Reading Robin Jeffrey Romance Science science fiction Short Story Television Theater The Awakening The Femme Fatale Tim O'Brien TV Victor Frankenstein Voltaire Women's studies Women in Film Noir WritingCare to Follow Me on Twitter?
My Tweets
Tag Archives: Feminist theory
The Wild
I worry, at times, that Rapunzel exchanged one ivory tower for another; one with bigger windows and more staircases, but a tower nonetheless. I wonder, sometimes, how unhappy she really was, cast out into the wilderness, sheared and alone for … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Writing
Tagged Arts, Character, Creative, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Feminist theory, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Gender, gendered body, Grimm, Literary, nature, Philosophy, Rapunzel, Robin Jeffrey, Women's studies, Writing
Leave a comment
Lacan, Doyle, and Holmes: Men and the Feminine (Part 3 of 3)
From the start, the differences between the Lacanian interpretation of the Oedipal Triangle and the one presented by Doyle become evident. Women are placed first in the position of the males in the triangle, not always possessing sight but always possessing … Continue reading
Posted in Academic
Tagged A Scandal in Bohemia, Academic, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arts, Character, Creative, Dupin, Edgar Allen Poe, Essay, Feminism, Feminist theory, Fiction, Gender, gendered body, Irene Adler, Jacques Lacan, Literary, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Robin Jeffrey, Sherlock Holmes, The Purloined Letter, Women's studies, Writing
Leave a comment
Lacan, Doyle, and Holmes: Men and the Feminine (Part 2 of 3)
Lacan presents a theory that, while engaging, relies on a relatively narrow-minded definition of feminine characteristics versus masculine characteristics. For Lacan, the feminine is a shadowy, deceptive form, both indefinable and irresistible. However, it is still a position of vulnerability, … Continue reading
Posted in Academic
Tagged A Scandal in Bohemia, Academic, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arts, Creative, Edgar Allen Poe, Essay, Feminism, Feminist theory, Femme Fatale, Fiction, Freud, Gender, gendered body, Jacques Lacan, Literary, nature, Non-Fiction, Oedipal Triangle, Philosophy, Robin Jeffrey, Sherlock Holmes, The Purloined Letter, Women's studies, Writing
Leave a comment
Lacan, Doyle, and Holmes: Men and the Feminine (Part 1 of 3)
Playwright William Congreve penned the infamous phrase “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” in 1697 (Moncur). Throughout literary history, the woman scorned has been a powerful antagonist, instigating trouble and woe … Continue reading
Posted in Academic
Tagged Academic, Arts, Character, Creative, Essay, Feminism, Feminist theory, Fiction, Gender, Literary, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Robin Jeffrey, The Femme Fatale, Women's studies, Writing
Leave a comment
“A wife’s like a guinea in gold”: The Commodification of Women in “The Beggar’s Opera”
In The Beggar’s Opera, we find the inversions of many societal norms for comedic effect. As is true of all satires, these purposeful reversals of positions and definitions, while at one moment the cause for hilarity, also serve to expose … Continue reading
Posted in Academic
Tagged 1700s, Academic, Arts, Creative, Essay, Feminism, Feminist theory, Gender, gendered body, History, John Gay, Literary, Macheath, Non-Fiction, Play, Polly Peachum, Robin Jeffrey, The Beggar's Opera, Writing
Leave a comment
“The Second Greatest Force in the Universe” – Ownership of Property and Personhood in the 19th Century (Part 3 of 3)
In both novels, motherhood is a form of property – whether it is a method of ownership or the way which one can be owned. For Linda in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the birth of her … Continue reading
“The Second Greatest Force in the Universe” – Ownership of Property and Personhood in the 19th Century (Part 2 of 3)
It is clear through various scenes and instances within the novels The Awakening and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl that both Edna and Linda are aware that it is through property that people experience selfhood. The best … Continue reading
“The Second Greatest Force in the Universe” – Ownership of Property and Personhood in the 19th Century (Part 1 of 3)
Walter Lippmann, the famous American reporter who was among the first people to introduce the concept of the Cold War, once said that “Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark”. From the earliest … Continue reading
Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 7 of 7)
VII. The Fembot and Humanity’s Future: Conclusion American feminist and activist Susan Brownmiller once said that “Women are all female impersonators to some degree” (“Feminization”). Judith Butler would certainly agree with this statement. Butler, when read through a feminist point … Continue reading
Posted in Academic
Tagged Academic, Artificial Intelligence, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Creative, Crypton Future Media, Essay, Fembot, Feminism, Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot, Feminist theory, Gynoid, HatsuneMiku, Huffington Post, Japan, John Naisbitt, Judith Butler, Literary, Non-Fiction, Rei Toei, Robin Jeffrey, science fiction, William Gibson, Women's studies, Writing
13 Comments
