![]() ![]() This pattern of passive-aggressive behavior, often exhibited by women in place of a more blatant masculine sadism, is often neglected in literature or misread when it occurs. Against girls and their indirectness, their whisperings, he would be helpless." The situation is strikingly similar to Foucault's description of control in Discipline and Punish, in which the agent of punishment exercises a total yet invisible power. ![]() If it was boys, chasing or teasing, he would know what to do, but I don't suffer from boys in this way. ![]() As the protagonist, wishing her brother would intervene, remarks about one of her "friends": "Cordelia does nothing physical. They criticize her every action, police her social life, and in general manipulate her. In Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, the protagonist enters a relationship with three girls that could be termed plutonic. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |