Category: feminism

"a virgin with no legs to leave me, no arms to hold me, no head to talk to me"

1934 Magritte Le Viol 72×54 cm . The following is Susan Gubar’s interpretation of Magritte’s painting (above) in her article “Representing Pornography: Feminism, Criticism, and Depictions of Female Violation” (1987). Do you have a different take on the image? .…

Mar 19, 2011
Why are many pornographic novels written as if by a woman?

Warning: the material below may disturb some. Angela Carter (1878 1978) in The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History answers: Many pornographic novels are written in the first person as if by a woman, or use a woman as the…

Jan 16, 2011

"a virgin with no legs to leave me, no arms to hold me, no head to talk to me"