Thursday 22 November 2007

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Sigmund Freud
Penis envy - women wanting male roles eg taking on masculine roles...
Freud has also come under fire from many feminist critics. Although Freud was an early champion of both sexual freedom and education for women (Freud, "Civilized Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness"), some feminists have argued that at worst his views of women's sexual development set the progress of women in Western culture back decades, and that at best they lent themselves to the ideology of female inferiority. Believing as he did that women are a kind of mutilated male, who must learn to accept their "deformity" (the "lack" of a penis) and submit to some imagined biological imperative, he contributed to the vocabulary of misogyny. Terms such as "penis envy" and "castration anxiety" contributed to discouraging women from entering any field dominated by men, until the 1970s.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy
Fantasy genre refering to superhuman powers and the role of heroes.


http://superheroes%20reflect%20society/

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