From: Russell Pearson <R.Pearson-AT-art.derby.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:40:29 +0000 Subject: M-TH: Putting her teeth on the line? Hugh spurts: >If Gogol can write about a nose on the lam, and Philip Roth go on about a >breast, >why not have a misogynist's rant about savage sabre-toothed pussies roaming >the forests of the night? That way he could translate the emotional force >our intimate organs have for him into whining poetry and give us new >insight into where fetishism is at among certain "Marxist" circles in the >US today. Been done before ol' bean: Barbara Creed's Kristevean study of contemporary horror and women _The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis_. London, Routledge, 1993. Here's some snips, if you'll pardon the expression: "All human societies have a conception of the monstrous-feminine, of what it is about woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject." (:1) vagina dentata: "...the myth generally states that women are terrifying because they have teeth in their vaginas and that the women must be tamed or the teeth somehow removed or softened- usually by a hero figure- before intercourse can safely take place." (:2) Creed's argument: Part 1: "...when woman is represented as monstrous it is always in relation to her mothering and reproductive functions." (:7) As: "...monstrous womb; the witch; the vampire; and the possessed woman." (:7) Part 2: "...linked to question of sexual desire rather than to the area of reproduction. The image of woman as castrator takes at least three forms: woman as the deadly femme castratrice, the castrating mother and the vagina dentata." (:7) And for Creed, in what form does the savage sabre-toothed pussy aka vagina dentata, take today: why it's that nasty creature, 'The Bitch', in the Alien saga! But remember, 'In cyberspace nobody can hear you cream'. Russ --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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