Foot fetishism Essays

  • Foot Fetishism Essay

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    Understanding the Psychology of Foot Fetishism Sex is one of the most natural things in the world, considering that it's part of a biological process. But as what sex educator and relationship expert Dr. Yvonne Fulbright said, it is one topic that remains taboo to this day. Sex isn't something anyone discusses in the open. So imagine the struggle of people with fetishes to discuss their needs, and find answers to questions or clarification to the confusing feelings they're experiencing. How would

  • Xie Bingying's Problems For Women Is Being A Woman

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    The Problem of Women The greatest problem for women is being a woman. The feminist rally cry, ‘the personal is political’ aims to depict that the many personal problems women face are due to the fact that there are societal oppressions toward them. Xie Bingying’s life gives an amazing depiction of a woman’s struggle between what society and her traditional family want for her and what she wants for herself and her country. From the start of Bingying’s life the disappoint of her double X chromosome

  • Analysis of an Episode from A Visit from the Foot Binder by Emily Prager

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    Analysis of an Episode from A Visit from the Foot Binder by Emily Prager In this essay I will be looking at, “A visit from the foot binder” written by Emily Prager and I will analyse closely the episode in the story where Lord Guo Guo comes back to view and witness the expense Lady Guo Guo has gone to, to create her burial tomb. I aim to look at the way in which this episode has been written and relate it to the main themes and functions of this story. Through reading this episode I

  • Foot Binding In Chinese Culture

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    consequences. Around the globe, different beauty practices of enduring violence and pain, mutilation and self-mutilation can be found in almost every culture. In the Chinese culture, binding one's feet are done in order to achieve a certain length. Foot binding has disappeared from modern-day China, but it was once accepted and a promoted practice among many Chinese women. The origin of such culture, beauty practice is somewhat a mystery; there are many theories as to why women began to bind their

  • Marx's Idea of Workers' Alienation From the Production Process

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    Alienation is the process where by people become foreign to the world they are living, we can also say, is the transformation of people own labour into power which rules them as if by a kind of natural or supra- human law. The origin of Alienation is FETISHISM-, which means the belief that inanimate things (COMMODITIES) have human powers that will be able to govern the activity of human beings. [Estrangement &Alienation]. Marx points out, that Alienation is the human labour, which created culture

  • Case of a Serial Killer: Albert Fish

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    system, Biography resource center, Albert Fish ). So much so, that the character, Hannibal Lector in the movie Silence of the Lambs is partially based on him. Murder was not the only thing that Albert Fish indulged in. He also dabbed in cannibalism, fetishism, pedophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and masochism. Fish was born on May 19,1870 in Washington, D.C. and was placed in an orphanage at age five after his father passed away. During his stay at the orphanage, Fish observed and experienced numerous

  • Ed Gein

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    Father 'George 1873-1940', Brother 'Henry 1901-44'. Residence(at Time of Murders) - 160-Acre Farm Seven Miles Outside Plainfield, Wisconsin. USA. Murder Type/Practices - Serial Killer / Graverobbery, Necrophilia, Cannibalism, Sadism, Death Fetishism. Method/Weapons Used - Shooting / .22, .32. Organization - Mixed. Mobility - Stable. Victim Vicinity - Plainfield, Wisconsin. Murder Time Span - 1954 - 1957. Victim Type - Old Women. Victims - Mary Hogan (Died 8 Dec 1954), Bernice Worden (Died

  • Daniel Miller's Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

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    that prevents any simple fetishization of material form. Indeed we feel that it is precisely those studies that quickly move the focus from object to society in their fear of fetishism and their apparent embarrassment at being, as it were, caught gazing at mere objects, that retain the negative consequences of the term ‘fetishism.’ It is for them that Coke is merely a material symbol, banners stand in a simple moment of representation or radio becomes mere text to be analyzed. In such analysis the myriad

  • Commodity Fetishism in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence

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    Commodity Fetishism in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence Commodity fetishism is a term first coined by Karl Marx in his 1867 economic treatise, Das Kapital. It takes two words, one with a historically economic bent and another with a historically religious bent, and combines them to form a critical term describing post-industrial revolution, capitalist economies. Specifically, this term was used to describe the application of special powers or ideas to products that carried no such inherent

  • Devoteeism

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    Exploiting People with Disabilities?” (2016), he discusses his feelings regarding disability fetishism (also known as Devoteeism), as a man with cerebral palsy. He concludes that although there is some benefit of being wanted sexually in a society that considers disability as an inherent weakness, fetishizing disabled people as objects of desire has the potential to be grossly problematic. This fetishism produces discourse surrounding what is acceptable when discussing disabled identity in tandem

  • Forensic And Unusual Sexual Practices By Anil Aggrawal

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    According to the book, “Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices”, written by Anil Aggrawal, there are about five hundred-forty-seven terms describing paraphilic sexual interests. Anil Aggrawal describes Sexual Fetishism as, “Reliance on some non-living objects as a stimulus for sexual arousal and sexual gratification” (15). A fetish can be both physical as well as a mental aspect of sexuality Just to name a few fetishes and their definitions: • Acrotomophilia Arousal

  • Bound For Beauty Essay

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    Cachia Professor Corona 2nd May 2014 Bound for Beauty Under the guise of making themselves attractive to men, Chinese women endured painful foot-binding rituals that left them scarred for life. We may view such a cultural practice as extreme but are twenty-first century women any less bound to androcentric ideas of what is attractive than our forebears? Foot-binding in ancient china was designed to make women dependent on their men and proved to be a symbol of male ownership that restricted women

  • Pain: Beauty Is Pain

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    Kiana Moore Grose Eng 102 21 March 2014 Beauty is Pain Throughout history women have had to endure horrible things to be deemed beautiful. The ancient tradition of foot binding in China, however, takes the “beauty is pain” concept to a whole new level. Foot binding, also known as lotus feet, is the Chinese custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of a young girl to break all of the bones in both feet and to also prevent further growth in order to keep the feet three inches long. Although

  • Foot-Binding

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    The practice of Foot-Binding entered into Mainstream Chinese culture around the 12th and 13th centuries (Feng 236), a time when the emerging conservative movement and the creation of a new social class system severely lowered the status of women. The restructuring of the social class system was driven by new and increased prosperity and created a new and higher standard of living that was enjoyed by the new upper class of scholars and farmers. The higher standard of living of the once lower stature

  • Scopophilia

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    Literature review. The media has changed significantly over the past decades. Technology has modified our abilities to expand our communication network, and it allows companies to spread their commercials over many different continents. Research done by Roberts (1993) shows that adolescent and children are often very influenced by media that involves sexual or violent conduct. This research is based on media involving children and adolescents, however this does not eliminate the effect media has

  • La Cultura y la Mercancía

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    La Cultura y la Mercancía RESUMEN: Adorno and Horkheimer adopted the notion of the fetishism of commodities for the analysis of art and culture. Material, physical goods are not identical with symbolic ones. In spite of being predominant, the culture industry cannot be taken as the prototype for all analyses of culture. One cannot reduce all cultural products in the market economy to market products. The plurality of artistic and cultural practices found in countries such as Brazil calls into

  • Feminism In Vertigo

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    A foundational argument made in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975) by the well-known feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey posits that in cinema the ability to subject another person to the will sadistically, or to the gaze voyeuristically, is turned onto the woman as the object of both (23). Mulvey asserts that the female figure as cinematic icon is ultimately representative of sexual difference, a signifier of the male castration complex. The woman is “displayed for the gaze and enjoyment

  • Fetishism, perversion and the Gay Identity

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    Fetishism, perversion and the Gay Identity The contemporary Euro-American idea of identity as coherent, seamless, bounded and whole is indeed an illusion. On the contrary, the self carries many internal contradictions and nuances as a reflection of the many roles that a person plays in various social circles. Identity is partially post-social and socially constructed though rituals and disciplinary acts. In turn Delany challenges the concept of a Gay Identity, an entity of being that could be

  • Evaluation of Women and Desire in The Beggar's Opera

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    desire and power. An often aphoristic overview of the traditional power struggle between men and women frames a world in which marriage reduces the wooer's desire but raises his power by an equal degree through ownership as a husband. This commodity fetishism of the wife spurs, in turn, the external desire of potential suitors, restoring equilibrium to the scales of eros. I will argue that Macheath's eventual capture (disregarding his brief escape and ironically crowd-pleasing twist-ending) stems from

  • Clockwork Orange And The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction

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    the destruction of tradition means the destruction of authenticity, of the originally, in that it also collapses the distance between art and the masses it makes possible the liberation which capitalism both obscures and opposes. While commodity fetishism represents the alienation away from use-value and towards exchange-value, leading to the assembly line construction of the same--as we see relentlessly analyzed by Horkheimer and Adorno in their essay The Culture Industry. Benjamin believes that