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10 - A Case Study of the Reel-life ‘Wimin’ in Fire and Girlfriend: Fruition to Miso Phallicism from mere Feminism

from Part II - Framing Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2011

Shree Deepa
Affiliation:
University of Hyderabad
K. Durga Bhavani
Affiliation:
Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad
C. Vijayasree
Affiliation:
Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad
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Summary

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it…”

Jean-Luc Godard

The words woman and women have intrinsically interwoven masculinity in them and scream out that a lady is incomplete without the other gender ‘in’ her, and if she ever dared to reject, she is left with nothing but woes. The terms are to be recognized and accepted as derivatives of a ‘phallogocentric’ society.

A new vocabulary that has arisen from many feminist movements will help us in redefining the role of modern human beings in a liberated society. ‘Wimin’ ‘womin,’ ‘womyn’ are terms produced by many parts of lesbian feminist movements to distinguish it from men and masculine (or ‘phallogocentric’) language. I choose to derive from this vocabulary in this paper. ‘Wimin’ are people who consciously reject men from their lives and choose to live their own lives free from the binding shackles of the dominant man (men) made society and cultures. They feel, find, and enjoy completeness bereft of the other gender.

Feminism as a philosophy is a shift of focus to women from men, to prove that women matter too. Gynocentrism is a focus on women as a clan and their views and experiences, needs, desires, likes, dislikes, usually without consideration of the other gender's views. Ultra-feminism (caused by both internal and external factors) can give birth to misogamy.

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Woman as Spectator and Spectacle
Essays on Women and Media
, pp. 85 - 93
Publisher: Foundation Books
Print publication year: 2010

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