... konstan Women, Boys, and the Paradigm of Athenian Pederasty I begin with a passage in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 bc) to which I shall have occasion to return again in what follows.1 The women of Athens, having agreed earlier...

... suzanne stewart-steinberg Girls Will Be Boys: Gender, Envy, and the Freudian Social Contract If you want to know men, study women. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau In 1918 Anna Freud entered analysis with her father...

... meretricious trade and, as ifhe had given you a matron's robe, established you in lasting and stable matrimony. No boy bought for sexual gratification was ever so much in the power of his master as you were in Curio's" (qtd. in Edwards 64).12 Catherine Edwards, in citing this passage, makes the excellent point...

.... If Daphnis’s psychosomatic identification with feminine sexuality is understood as a symptom of male sexual development in pederastic culture, then the Freudian female Oedipus complex can be reimagined as descriptive of the boy’s progression out of sexual objectification and into the role of active sexual...

... conditions of possibility and impossibility. These are the material conditions that, from W. E. B. Du Bois’s analysis of the “color-line” to Calvin Warren’s analytic of “onticide,” from Lewis Gordon’s “antiblackness” to Nelson Maldonado-Torres’s “coloniality of being,” and from Hortense Spillers’s “being...

... of Angela Davis and the memoirs of the Scottsboro Boys). Beyond its simple deployment of electricity, Sous Tension harbors a visual allusion to the gégène through its ample employment of kitchen grinders, a favorite instrument of Hatoum’s and one that recurs throughout many of her works. The standing...

... Times 14 Oct. 2001 : B4 . “Bat Boy Attacks Girl, 10!” Weekly World News27 Feb. 2001. 10 Nov. 2001.< http://www.weeklyworldnews.com >. “Bat Boy Found in West Virginia Cave!” Weekly World News. 26 Feb. 2001. 10 Nov. 2001.< http://www.weeklyworldnews.com >. “Bat Boy on the Loose...

.... The Boy's Own Book . Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1829 . Dewey, John. The School and Society . Ed. Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980 . Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture . New York: Knopf, 1976 . Finley, Martha. Elsie Dinsmore . New York:M. W. Dodd, 1868...

... in such manner is not to overlook its arresting potential. Indeed, play “inherently teach[es children] discourse about appropriate and transgressive gender and racial roles (for both girls and boys),” as Kyra Gaunt argues (2). This is to say that play is a space where the body is made known to be occupied...

... by what one could only call a primitive and insistent opposition between the good and the bad (“Goodness will find the little boy,” we read; “It always has. It will again” [281 The father promises his son that the good and the bad...

... should already give us pause, for it points to the difficulty of trying to separate “human category” from formal property. In a sense, this is what is largely unconsidered in the work on impersonality. When Bersani describes the boy in Socratic love as “seeing himself in the lover as in a mirror...

... . Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 1991 . Wright, Richard. “Between Laughter and Tears.” Rev. of These Low Grounds by Waters Edward Turpin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. New Masses 25.2 ( 1937 ): 22 -25. ____. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth . New York: Harper, 1945...

...Elizabeth A. Grosz Copyright © 1991 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1991 Works Cited Freud Sigmund . “ Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy .” 1909. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Workds of Sigmund Freud...

... envy. It is the girl, who observes the anatomical difference between herself and little boys, who is preoccupied by the question of sexual distinction. Not finding the notion of penis envy compelling, I have, like others, regarded...

... in their Social Context. Ed. Ellen Roy F. and Reason David . London : Academic P , 1979 . 167 – 94 . Du Bois-Reymond Emil . “ Ueber die wissenschaftlichen Zustände der Gegenwart .” 1882 . Reden. Vol. 2 . Leipzig : Veit , 1886 . 448 – 64 . Du Bois-Reymond Emil...

... ). There were also students who directly challenged the facts of what had taken place. In 1986, for example, the Socialist journalist Carla Perotti asked Levi to meet with her wayward son, Emanuele. The boy turned up at Levi’s apartment with doctored photos of Auschwitz that “showed” that the gas chambers were...

... in for what she lacks. But a significant aporia haunts this theory of castration. Freud analyzes penis envy, but not vagina or womb envy, explaining how a girl negotiates the fact of an absent organ but not how a boy does. On entering the castration complex, what a boy learns to dread is not the lack of what...