> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:01:28 -0400
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> From: Glynis Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: senior thesis info
You might like "Seduction" by Jean Beaudrillard and "The Sex
Contract" by Helen E. Fisher as well as "Signs of the Flesh" by
Daniel Rancour-LaFerriere and "Sex and the Brain" by Jo Durden-Smith
and Diane deSimone. Good Luck.
> Dear Renee,
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but your project is on *sexual* desire, right?
> (why we desire *who* we desire). Ok. There is a lot of work being done
> right now on the construction (or production, really) of desire for things
> and how that production is crucial to consumer culture. There are good
> entries into this material in the huge anthology published by Routledge on
> *Cultural Studies* that might be helpful if you go in the direction of sex
> as a commodity.
> Lots, but not all, of this material is Freudian or neo-Freudian: you
> might want to consider some of Freud's basic writings on women and
> sexuality.
> The "we" of your request is kind of vague -- but if "we" includes men,
> there's a lot of work on how women try to construct themselves as objects of
> male sexual desire, including Naomi Wolf's *Beauty Trap* and Wendy Chapkis'
> *Beauty Secrets.* There's also a mini-industry in women's popular magazine
> trying to "educate"(brainwash?) women about what men "really" want.
> An interesting read for you might be Adrienne Rich's essay "On
> Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" where she strongly
> suggests that women don't "desire" men at all: instead, heterosexual
> "desire" is a mystification of the basic fact that women sexual desire isn't
> free at all, but coerced.
> I guess I'd like to be more helpful, but don't know how you intend to
> shape your project.
>
> Renee Brook Hogue wrote:
>
> > hello everyone,
> >
> > i am desperately trying to find info for my senior thesis. yes, i am
> > only a first-yearer but i want it to be my life's work (or at least that
> > is the goal...) anyways, i am looking for anything that discusses
> > desire and why we desire who we do, specifically anything that critiques
> > current culture's value on aesthetic and gender roles. books, journals,
> > periodical, etc. would be extremely helpful, as well as any comments on
> > the subject (is is noteworthy???). i am aware this is a vague
> > description, but if anyone out there can help me i would appreciate it
> > soooo much.
> >
> > _____________________________________________
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> > renee brook hogue
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> > "he says i know you have to go
> > you have gone before
> > we are fighting on two different fronts
> > of the same war
> > but no matter what else
> > i will do
> > i will wait for you"
> > - ani difranco -
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> Glynis Carr
> Associate Professor of English
> Bucknell University
> Lewisburg, PA 17837
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 28 20:29:03 1998
From: "us" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Spanish prosecutors probe cause of toxic spill
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