Female Sexualization keyword-the-possessed The lessons of A Taste

The lessons of A Taste of Power are of more than historical interest

uniting black and white

but largely unreported

In this companion volume to Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen Kiernan sets out to rescue Shakespearean studies from the increasingly solipsistic terrain of literary criticism

and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to a debate that is a timely and valuable contribution to egalitarian politics

Female Sexualization keyword-the-possessed The lessons of A TasteForegrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of womens bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative femininity. A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, womens gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological.