by: Georgia Pettygrove The term “rape culture” is used often in when discussing sexual assalut and in media and literature, but what does it actually mean? Simply put, the term “rape culture” describes a societal acceptance of sexual assualt. The United Nations Women’s website’s article on standing up to rape culture describes it as “theContinue reading “Rape culture’s long-standing history: Leda, Zeus, and Greek mythology”
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Not as many feathers: Paglia, Leda, and the women of today.
Nora Cornell • September 22, 2020 Camille Paglia’s essay on Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan” is a masterclass in both interpretation and extrapolation; her breadth of analysis gives the poem a deeper meaning, and scattered literary allusions twist her writing into a criticism of the larger Western canon. At first, it feels strange to handleContinue reading “Not as many feathers: Paglia, Leda, and the women of today.”
Constructions of Gender in Literature 