Re: Feminine Ideal
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:04:13 -0500 (EST)
The "feminine ideal."
I think it's summed up by the phrase --
neither mind nor body of her own.
OOPS, that'd be the "ideal feminine." Sorry, my bad :)
Jim
PS Eh, seriously, you could look up a lot of myth crit stuff relating to
feminine archetypes (Campbell and Jung would be obvious sources), and
there's one book out entitled...what? I can't remember. It's four
words, like Mother Goddess Virgin Whore, something like that, referring
to the roles men attribute to women traditionally.
Simone de Beauvior's The Second Sex would also be a very good resource.
You could also look at the opening few pages of Kate Chopin's The
Awakening to see an implicit depiction of the roles women have been
relegated to at least in the society of that novel.
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:47:47 -0500 (EST) Pierrot65@aol.com writes:
>Fishes --
>
>Sorry to take up space on the list with this but...
>
>A while ago we brought up the "feminine ideal." This is something I
>desperately need for my own work (the definition, not the ...
>nevermind), but
>my ignorance of/aversion to psychology has left me wanting. If anyone
>knows a
>good place to research this would you please shoot a missive at my
>box?
>Thanks, and happy swimming. Remember: breathe with the gills.
>
>rick
>
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