THE FEMININE IDENTITY AS AN URBAN EXPLORATION: A CIDADE SITIADA AND THE CASE OF LUCRÉCIA NEVES

From: Chasqui | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Schulenberg, Chris T | Copyright information

How do we go about examining and developing our individual masculine or feminine identities? From a feminist point of view, this investigation requires a formidable critical effort since it necessarily tends to be pursued in the context of a series of patriarchal discourses that govern Western society itself. In particular, the city-as-center of masculine political, economic, and artistic power represents an adversarial force in the face of feminine attempts to define and develop their own id...

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