Fantasy, gender and power inJessica Jones

On Sadomasochism, Fantasy and Transgression: Rethinking Power and Gender through Histoire d’O

frame 24.2 | november 2011 | 105-115 I think that the feeling of horror . . . does not correspond, as most people believe, to what is bad for us, to what jeopardizes our interests. On the contrary, if they horrify us, objects that otherwise would have no meaning take on the highest present value in our eyes. Erotic activity can be disgusting; it can also be noble, ethereal, excluding sexual con...

Gender Differences in Sexual Fantasy: an Evolutionary Analysis

The sociobiological analysis of male and female mating strategies leads to the prediction that men would be more inclined to fantasize sex with anonymous and multiple partners than women, whose fantasies would suggest a desire for close-bonded and famous partners. These expectations were confirmed with reference to a nationwide quota poll of 788 British people, representative of four age groups...

Gender and Power Dynamics

Gender and Power: How Gender and Gender Environment Affect Manifestations of Power

We investigate the interaction of power, gender, and language use in the Enron email corpus. We present a freely available extension to the Enron corpus, with the gender of senders of 87% messages reliably identified. Using this data, we test two specific hypotheses drawn from the sociolinguistic literature pertaining to gender and power: women managers use face-saving communicative strategies,...

gender and power in "siyasatnameh

the victory of tugrul in dandanghan (431 hq/1073 ad) heralded the rule of seljuks in persia. the pinnacle of this period could be said to have been the ten years reign of alp arsalan (455-65/1063-73) and twenty years reign of his son malekshah (465-85/1063-73). these thirty years of continuous rule by father and son coincided with the chancellorship of khajeh nizam al-mulk, a wise counselor to ...