Leah M Wyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6254008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah M Wyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyman |
| SIGNATURE | WYMAN L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transcending The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy
This essay explores an alternative perspective on the virgin/whore dichotomy, a frame often used in feminist criticism of popular media. Past use of the dichotomy emphasizes how women are classified according to men's needs and experiences, a useful approach for examining the manifestation of patriarchal ideology. However, our approach asks instead how representations of sexuality might be decoded if women's needs and experiences are used as the …
Primal Urges and Civilized Sensibilities
If there hadn't been women, we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat because we made civilization to impress our girlfriends,” claimed Orson Welles (qtd. in Gossett 20). This quotation is typical of a “gendered ideology,” which dichotomizes male and female natures by associating that which is civilized with the feminine, and that which is uncivilized with the masculine. That ideology underpins the belief that it is the social role of wom…
Transcending The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy
This essay explores an alternative perspective on the virgin/whore dichotomy, a frame often used in feminist criticism of popular media. Past use of the dichotomy emphasizes how women are classified according to men's needs and experiences, a useful approach for examining the manifestation of patriarchal ideology. However, our approach asks instead how representations of sexuality might be decoded if women's needs and experiences are used as the …
Primal Urges and Civilized Sensibilities
If there hadn't been women, we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat because we made civilization to impress our girlfriends,” claimed Orson Welles (qtd. in Gossett 20). This quotation is typical of a “gendered ideology,” which dichotomizes male and female natures by associating that which is civilized with the feminine, and that which is uncivilized with the masculine. That ideology underpins the belief that it is the social role of wom…
Transcending The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy
This essay explores an alternative perspective on the virgin/whore dichotomy, a frame often used in feminist criticism of popular media. Past use of the dichotomy emphasizes how women are classified according to men's needs and experiences, a useful approach for examining the manifestation of patriarchal ideology. However, our approach asks instead how representations of sexuality might be decoded if women's needs and experiences are used as the …
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)