The Bloody Chamber Context Flashcards

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“women that are not

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beautiful are a source of suspicion”

neikirk

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2
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feminine mistrust is a message in

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17% of the tales (Baker)

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3
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“fairytales are being used as a

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source and a vehicle of powerful self-mirroring images affirming the existing value system

Desczc

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4
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Bettleheim

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5
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wise children

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1991

femininity is a performance

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6
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expectations

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pressed upon women to possess the role of domestic housewife after WWII Ira Levin’s ‘The Stepford Wives’ 1972

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7
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the woman’s identity

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as synonymous to the home’s health… translated to the accessory to her husband or male family member

likzic and pandzic

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8
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reclaim the night movement

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leeds 1977

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9
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the theory of the other

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jaques derrida
fascination and repulsion

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10
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he is the subject

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he is the absolute, she is the other

mulvey

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11
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dracula as a discourse

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of subconscious fear of colonial otherness, fear of the foreign

Khar 2009

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12
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gothic as a way of identifying

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aberrant behaviours as a condition of otherness
halberstram

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13
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botting on the other

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Otherness takes the center stage

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14
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daemonologie

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1597 james VI

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15
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stoning as a

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biblical punishment

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16
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1992 kristeva

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the abject in powers of horror

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17
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carter translated morals for

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Perrault

Bluebeard

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18
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a brave rich man is a

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prize well worth waiting for… but young girls these days want so much to be married i do not habe the heart to press the moral

19
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1960

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Angela marries Paul Carter aged 20

20
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exchanged

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one prision for another

unhappy enough to die

21
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met mark pierce

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way younger, erl king in her uneathed fascination and love for him

22
Q

1969

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holiday to japan

23
Q

kabuki theatre:

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female roles played by men

24
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the passion of new eve

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1977
ideal woman but it is a man

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Marquis de sade
french aristrocrat justine 150 days of sodom inspiration for the saidean women 19th century
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wax figures
madam tussard for french revolution- preserving power and status
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the saidean women
1978
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medusa
gorgon able to wiled power over men in greek mythology
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in 'Bram stoker's dracula'
coppola 1992 lucy wears a dress embroidered with serpents and one of the phantom women has a medusa head- symbol of temptation
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biblical theme of women as
temptress
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mothers in gothic literature as
"an emblem of safety dever
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overprotective mother
carter treated her like a doll
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BB curiosity
is the most fleeting of pleasures, the moment it is satisfies, it ceases to exist and it always proves very very expensive (perrault)
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tradition as a vehicle for
indoctrination (grimms tales for nazism)
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perrault
17th century
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each century tends to
create or recreate fairytales after its own taste carter
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the bloody chamber
1979
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1977
translation of perrault's fairytales
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the uncanny
1919 freud
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the doppleganger in
jekyll and mr hyde (1886)
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1960
contraception pill
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1964
revision to married women's property act
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1967
abortion act
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1973
virago press formed