Working Under the Myth of the Black Rapist

Chapter 5 posits that the journey for Black boys adopting anti-violent perspectives is substantially different than that of their White peers because they must operate under negative tropes about their propensity for aggression: There is a belief that Black men have a special propensity for forcefully acting out their sexual desires on women. “The myth of the Black rapist” is identified as a term, and the author provides contemporary and historical evidence of its existence. Examples can be found in the criminal justice system and pornography. Chapter 5 reminds readers that caution in initiating sexual activity is an appropriate standard and closes with a challenge that Black men overcome historical stereotypes by becoming recognized advocates for anti-violence.

La fuerza de la sangre cervantina en el espejo de una novela de Kleist

In 1808, the German author Heinrich von Kleist published the novella The Marquise of O., which bears an obvious resemblance to The Force of Blood from Cervantes’s Exemplary Novels. In both cases, the female protagonist marries a man after being raped by him. At first sight, Kleist’s text seems to testify to a degree of progress in female emancipation because the victim has doubts about accepting the rapist as her husband. Other aspects of his novella are less conducive to proving such a progress. Kleist stresses the pressures of family honour more than Cervantes does, and he does not restrict himself merely to qualifying rape as a sin or crime. He also hints at the possibility of an unconscious yielding to bodily needs, questioning thus the power of reason to govern sexual desires.

WOWEN SEXUAL DESIRES EXPERIENCES DURING HONEYMOON PERIODS

Background: Honeymoon is a vacation trip that is usually done by newly married couples to celebrate their wedding. The most beautiful moment awaited by newlywed couples, where everything still looks beautiful and sweet like honey. This study aimed to explore married women’s experience of their sexual desire during their honeymoon periods. Methods: The researcher conducted this qualitative study on six eligible married women who met the requirements for reproductive age. Data were collected using semi structured–interviews and analyzed using thematic methods. All of the participants in this study were obtained through purposive sampling. After being conducted, each interview was transcribed verbatim and read several times to achieve the sense of the whole and then, the key terms were highlighted as codes. After the initial classification of the codes, categories and themes gradually appeared. Results: a theme was found and divided into two categories:1) passionate and emotional sexual desires;2) Spontaneous and sensitive sexual desires Conclusions: During their honeymoon period, the majority of women experienced sexual desire that is spontaneous, sensitive or easily rises when stimulated, hence its getting more excited, and often this sexual desire even being so selfish and emotional, especially at their 'first night'.Keywords: experiences, honeymoon, qualitative research, sexual desire, women

Bodies In Aarchitecture

<div>Throughout the history of Western architecture, the human body has been understood as a complete and singular thing. The collection of rules, texts, and theories that today we inherit as the system of architecture has been developed by mining ideal bodies for formal principles. This work is an attempt at engaging with the ongoing processes of redesign of our bodies and moving away from principles of biological determinism. Through the study of four imaginary and partial bodies this work re-frames the conception of a body as a multiplicity. The imaginary bodies, derived from the study of emerging surveillance technologies, social media, sexual desires, and neurological disorders, become the focus of the speculative design project of a home. As an assemblage of environments that only address imaginary dimensions of human condition, this thesis aims to relate to the emerging ways of being human that are often dismissed by established architectural regimes.</div>

Bodies In Aarchitecture

<div>Throughout the history of Western architecture, the human body has been understood as a complete and singular thing. The collection of rules, texts, and theories that today we inherit as the system of architecture has been developed by mining ideal bodies for formal principles. This work is an attempt at engaging with the ongoing processes of redesign of our bodies and moving away from principles of biological determinism. Through the study of four imaginary and partial bodies this work re-frames the conception of a body as a multiplicity. The imaginary bodies, derived from the study of emerging surveillance technologies, social media, sexual desires, and neurological disorders, become the focus of the speculative design project of a home. As an assemblage of environments that only address imaginary dimensions of human condition, this thesis aims to relate to the emerging ways of being human that are often dismissed by established architectural regimes.</div>

Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien

Narratives on ageing are deeply entangled with discourses on happiness. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness to explore how happiness scripts make certain ‘happy objects’ such as beauty aspirations, sexual desires, and life choices seen as ‘right’ for older women and others as ‘wrong’. My aim is to contribute to new feminist theorisations of women’s ageing by exploring the unhappy archives of older women and looking for ways in which normative happiness scripts are challenged, destabilised and rewritten. Articulations of resistance are found through interpretative engagement with representations of older women who feel alienated by the ‘right’ happy objects, deliberately make ‘wrong’ object choices or turn the ‘right’ happy objects into tools to dismantle ageist, sexist and heteronormative structures. These resistance strategies come together in my theorising of the grumpy old women as affect alien and a patchwork of unruliness.

THE INFLUENCE OF THREE MEN IN EDNA PONTELLIER’S LIFE IN THE AWAKENING BY KATE CHOPIN: A Psychoanalytic Study

This paper focuses on the life of Edna Pontellier, the female main character in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. The purpose is to analyse the influence of the three men in Edna Pontellier’s life. The analysis is done using the concept of id, ego, and superego from Freudian psychoanalysis. The result shows that the first man in Edna Pontellier’s life, Mr. Pontellier/her husband, serves as the superego that always directs Edna’s ego. The second man, Robert Lebrun, is her lover who encourages her to win back her ego which makes her able to begin resisting the superego’s demands. The third man, Alcee Arobin, is the woman-seducer who arouses and fullfils her id in the form of sexual desires which has been repressed so far. However, the psychological conflicts that she has to endure lead to her decision to end her own life in her own way. Key words: id, ego, superego, Freudian psychoanalysis.