Compare Adams' notions of the 'Virgin' (in "The Dynamo and the Virgin") and the 'American Woman' (in "Vis Inertiae") with Anzaldua's concept of the 'Virgin/whore' dichotomy (in "Entering the Serpent").
Hey guys, I'm not sure if I am suppose to be putting my reading responses on my blog page. Can someone tell me what I'm doing? hee hee. I know I'm should comment on this question. But it's too hard. Let me know what I'm suppose to post on my blog.
I feel that Adams's view of the Virgin and the American woman suggests that there are these two forces...that women belong in either catagory. He says, "No American had ever been truly afraid of either." Either, I interpret as if he's saying these are the choices. Anzaldua, on the other hand, talks about how the female, the goddess, has been reduced over time, by history and politics and religion, to these mere symbols of the Virgin and the whore. "They divided her who had been complete, who possessed both upper (light) and underworld (dark aspects." I feel she is talking about how the complexities of women have been bled out and reduced to these two concepts.
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Hey guys, I'm not sure if I am suppose to be putting my reading responses on my blog page. Can someone tell me what I'm doing? hee hee. I know I'm should comment on this question. But it's too hard. Let me know what I'm suppose to post on my blog.
Thanks,
DaLyn
Derek you should do you reading responses and free writes on you own page
I mean dayln, sorry
Jordan
Thanks Jordan
I feel that Adams's view of the Virgin and the American woman suggests that there are these two forces...that women belong in either catagory. He says, "No American had ever been truly afraid of either." Either, I interpret as if he's saying these are the choices. Anzaldua, on the other hand, talks about how the female, the goddess, has been reduced over time, by history and politics and religion, to these mere symbols of the Virgin and the whore. "They divided her who had been complete, who possessed both upper (light) and underworld (dark aspects." I feel she is talking about how the complexities of women have been bled out and reduced to these two concepts.
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