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... for This Place?': Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman .” Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Females, and Other Bad Examples: Rethinking Gender and Envy Sianne Ngai As in matters of the heart in general females are more susceptible to the passion than men. —G...

... in nature to facilitate a second form of perverted environmental justice: masturbatory and sexual acts that erotically engage environmental interactors. Perverted envi- ronmental justice, as I use it, is then a necessary recuperation of the epithet pervert wielded against the sexually awakened in some...

... loss, Jack puts a pillow under his sweater and poses in front of a mirror. What are we to make of such scenes? It would appear that “womb envy’’ and male hysteria are no longer latent thematics to be teased out by the psy- choanalytically-oriented feminist critic; such envy...

... theory of the Oedipus complex and its corollaries of penis envy and fear of castration, and Lacan’s re-reading of Freud in terms of the phallus and the notion of lack. In using psychoanalytic concepts, it is imperative for women to situate themselves critically in relation to these concepts...

..., and, on the other, the pathologized penis-envying lesbian conjured in part by anti- penetration cultural feminism, reflects one view of the complex cultural space that some lesbian identities and sexualities have come to occupy. In the struggle over meanings of female sexuality, cultural...

... that is unbearable: because he “envies” her unassailable libidinal position, man projects his own insufficiency, his own “envy,” onto woman. If woman is silent, if she keeps a “thick veil” drawn over herself and her sex, she must have her reasons, and good reasons, for wishing to remain...

... the sexes. For the boy, the process of individuation works in accord with the child's apprehension of sexual difference, but in Freud's view girls do not seem to have that same motive. So to account for the difference in girls, Freud outlines how the girl first develops penis-envy...

... the conflicts between 112 the characters, much of the series revolves around these differences. Several episodes have taken up the envy experienced in the course of female friendships, and the recognition that this envy exists (as well as what causes it) becomes the source...

... . . . fatale with penis envy-to go on repeating the same mistakes: “ speaking the same language together, we’re going to reproduce the same history . . . the same old stories all over again . . . The same difficulties, the same impossibility of making connections. ’’s~This is why when we hear...

...- tural questions posed by postfeminism. It also means retaining the political urgency and commitment to diversity that characterizes the best feminist scholarship. In the restructured university envi- Archive for the Future  •  175 ronments in which so...

..., is not free of such limiting stereotypes. Later in the same article he, too, is influenced by the conventions of his own society: The fact that women must be regarded as having little sense of justice is no doubt related to the predominance of envy in their mental life; for the de...

... to direct. One day I discovered that he was going to make such a film and had instead hired a young guy from New York who had previously made only one or two features, named Martin Scorsese. It’s called Boxcar Bertha (US, 1972). I was truly hurt. I’ve never envied Martin Scorsese because we...

... to late 1970s and 1980s to include women and virtually star feminist film theory in, for example, Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers (1983) and Yvonne Rainer’s The Man Who Envied Women (1986). In these critical works, along with Potter’s 1979 Thriller, the enunciation is for, by and about women...

.... "Hollywood bigwigs are backed by tremendous glamor buildup that TV players can only envy." 51. Joseph c. Franklin and G. Maxwell Ule, "Is Your Brand Showing?" Television Magazine 10 (July 1953), p. 24. "Housewives don't want to see anything that's characterized this tendency...

... deeply institutionalized in America. Feminists rejected the political implications of adjustment- oriented American ego psychology and the idea of “penis envy’’ as formative of the woman’s personality, and extended this rejection to all of Freud’s work, assuming that this version...

... and social breakdown is inscribed within strategies of cinematic narration which lack the customary linearity, coherence, and sense of closure suggested by the classical model, and by a visual style which at once emphasizes the relation between character and envi• ronment through location shooting...

... version of it by actually playing out the male heroic role with your voice, that is, with your throat, a part of your actual body. Your experience has a physi- 162  •  Camera Obscura cal dimension, whereas that of female spectators remains psychological. I envy you. I think this goes beyond...

..., and relates strongly to what Freud noted as the “repudiation of femininity”: one of two obstacles to the successful completion of psychoanalysis. The inter- related phenomena are the experience of penis envy in women, and the corresponding struggle, in men,“against...

... are trained to be logical, but women seem to be more imaginative. Let's say you meet a man and a woman in a flower garden. The minute you discuss something with the man, he'll probably forget the envi• ronment and concentrate on the issue. The woman might say a few things to you...

... the Mountains Tremble, turning the form of the collection against its expected uses. Distributed digitally by New Day and contextualized within a complex social media envi- ronment predicated on presence, Granito is characterized by the digital prostheses that so often accompany the contemporary film...