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Analysing Borys Will Be Boys and The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery

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“Boys will be Boys” and “The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery”

“…The Justice Department spoke to a woman whose daughter was sexually assaulted, at the age of five, by an adolescent boy, who was sentenced to two years of community service for the crime. A prosecutor handling the case allegedly told the mother that ‘boys will be boys.’” (Mother Jones) I have been struggling with this double-sided coin; this shooting of one’s self in the foot, this violence towards women, and this promotion of violent behavior. Just as much as this hurts women, this also hurts men because of showing that not only is this behavior not a big deal, it also to some extent is acceptable behavior to rape and violate women. It is a questioning of the normalities, it is a wonder if we are born with something evil inside, or does evil just happen, or are the structures of normality set up in a way that we are unaware of our evils until someone sheds some light. This is my struggle in reading “The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery” along with other feminist theory and writings, and then of course we are given frequent news reports of the sexual violation and rape of women that still permeates our society daily.

With Ralegh writing “Discoverie” it was a normality to write in a manner where one would talk about the land as if it was a woman. It was the sex dripping advertisement for young men to want to conquer land as much as they desired the flesh of a woman. It gets the (men) people excited at the prospect of dominating another land for them, an unquenchable thirst to have more and more. In some ways it almost reads like soft-core pornography for those who also may enjoy a little adventure to an unknown land (woman’s body). As w...

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...ared with all members of his nation, gender, and social estate: namely, the expectation that he manifest loyalty and obedience to his sovereign at the same time that he exercised masculine authority over women.” (Montrose p. 34)

Questions:

What are some cases you see language being used on a daily basis that controls an other?

How does our government use language to control other?

In what ways can we deny ourselves to learn about other?

Sources:

Mulvey, Laura. "11." Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. N.p.: Screen 16.3, 1975. 199-204. Print.

Montrose, Louis. “The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery.” The New World. Berkely, CA: Regents of the U of California, 1991. 1-41. Print.

Rodowick, David Norman. The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1988. 221-98. Print.

In this essay, the author

  • Analyzes how the justice department spoke to a woman whose daughter was sexually assaulted, at the age of five, by an adolescent boy, who was sentenced to two years of community service.
  • Analyzes how ralegh's "discoverie" was a sex-dripping advertisement for young men to want to conquer land as much as they desired the flesh of women. the america engraving by theodor galle is soaking with sexual conduct and the need to dominate these people.
  • Analyzes how the use of savagery, and the feminine words to describe land, allow the european patriarchy to have domination as their right.
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