Essays on Emasculation

Question 1

In the United States a man who intentionally has his penis and testicles cut off would be considered crazy by most people and in need of hormonal and psychological therapy by a small minority. Yet, though the hijras provoke ambivalence in many Indians, they are considered neither crazy nor candidates for therapeutic intervention. There are mythological and structural reasons for the reason. The removal of the penis and the testicles among the hijras makes you a goddess who has the capacity to bless and curse. In the book “Neither Man or Woman”, the hijra community members are not considered ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (“Prufrock”) was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (“Poetry”). It was written by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (“Eliot”) (1888–1965). Eliot first started work on the poem in February, 1910. As the Overseas Editor of Poetry, Erza Pound (“Pound”) had instigated the whole business (n.a., n.d., “Bio,” 2014; and McCoy, 1992). Prufrock has been studied by many, many talented scholars. In fact, what makes it such an outstanding piece of poetry is the fact that people can read so many meanings into it. ...

Fight Club was not a novel that gained popularity immediately. However, the novel became something of a cultural sensation with the release of the film adaptation; like much of Palahniuk’s work, Fight Club is a dark, disturbing piece of literature that focuses on the less-savory aspects of human nature. Some have lambasted the novel as misogynistic, and others have misconstrued the text to support anarchy and domestic terrorism; however, much moreso than a political treatise, the text is an insight into the twisted depths of one man’s psyche, a man that should be neither pitied nor exalted; a man with demons and strengths ...

Fighting among men is associated with masculinity. Most of them fight to inflict pain and humiliate their opponents and gain control and power over them, thus enhancing their concept of masculinity. Their opponents receive the painful beating and humiliation as they get beat down harboring feelings of emasculation and humiliation: scars that haunt them for life. This paper will focus on a unique fight club within the San Francisco Bay Area that has different goals as compared to humiliating win-and-lose fights. The Gentlemen’s Fight Club for me is a beneficial part of the San Francisco Bay Area providing an ...

The 1960s and 1970s were two of the most challenging and the most turbulent decades in America, not only in its history, but also in its film industry. These were times when the social and political turmoil, along with the demise of the Motion Picture Production Code, resulted in the rise of Exploitation films. This type of cinema is applied to most low-budget genre movies that refer to or exploit contemporary social anxieties. Ernest Mathijs states, “[o]stensibly, Exploitation films claim to warn viewers about the consequences of these problems, but in most cases their style, narrative, and inferences ...