The main theme in this weeks readings seemed to associate around sexual differences between men and women. Cinema also had to do a lot with this weeks readings and how the media displays women in a different sense. The cinema depicts women as the model of the perfect machine.
b.) Terms
- mythology- refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity
- biogenetic- is a body of theory in anthropology. The perspective grounds discussions of learning, culture, personality and social action in neuroscience.
- phallus dentatus-penis with teeth.
- fetishism-is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular a man-made object that has power over others.
c.)Questions and Comments
- What is the basic concept of the body?
- What do people associate with the ideal female?
- Men want a women to be able to reproduce and be fertile, how can a man want a machine as a wife when they can't provide offspring for them?
- Is sexual identity classified as a category?
- How can Nathaniel question if his arms and eyes got ripped off when he is a grown man in the movie and obviously has both his arms and eyes in tacked?
- I found it interesting that in the movie Alien that men can have babies but it is displayed in a horrible way.
- In Metropolis I found this quote to be very interesting: "The body is tied to a time clock, as a schedule, a routine, an assembly line. The clock, a machine itself, is used to regulate bodies as machines." This quote really makes one stop and think about this and how in a way it is true because we are always worried about what time it is and relying on clocks to schedule our lives.
- Another quote I found interesting: " Men's bodies are analogous to machines, the women's body literally becomes the machine."
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