The film Fire presents an overlapping framework of different issues involving the myths and reality of lesbianism and lesbian desire, sexual preferences and freedom of expression, and the symbolic significance of women’s bodies and chastity for Indian culture and tradition. These invoked issues make up...
The Chosŏn society was one in which patriarchal family order was imposed based on Confucian ideology. After the Fifteenth century, women faced more social constraints as Neo-Confucianism, which was emphasized even more rigid Confucian ideals, prevailed as the sole dominant system of social governance. In...
The Catholic Church has many concerns with the world of pornography. In studying the influence of pornography, the Catholic Church tends to discuss the definition of pornography, what the concerns the Catholic Church has with it, the impact it has and how we can help...
‘The Book of Margery Kempe’ is thought to be one of the first autobiographies of women in English. It is about a middle-class woman called Margery Kempe, who lived from around 1373 and 1440, and her journey dedicating her life to God. Throughout her transition...
Introduction Confucianism is the core value of Chinese society and profoundly influenced many other Asian countries like Japan and Korea. However, it also has a reputation for its repressive and degrading attitude toward women and for its history of the women-oppressive practice. The Confucianism we...
In Webster’s Jacobean revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, both men consider the themes of chastity and the effect chastity has on the main female characters’ reputation within society. Both are widows, but Blanche is desperate...
