The Erotic Flashcards
1
Q
Audre Lorde’s significance of the erotic
A
- source of value and empowerment
- produces knowledge
- can be a source of oppression
2
Q
Eros in Western thought
A
Eros is a trickster, he is irrational and emotional, therefore feminine
- has capacity to threaten social order and overwhelm the rational masculine man
3
Q
How were enslaved people portrayed?
A
feminine, emotional
and irrational and therefore
incapable of self-rule and
civilization.
4
Q
Audre Lorde says that the erotic is NOT…
A
pornographic
5
Q
the erotic
A
a dimension of human experience
that encompasses the capacity,
experience, and power of intimacy.
6
Q
Power as energy is…
A
decentralized, omnipresent, subject to change
