The dark angel. Aspects of Victorian sexuality

The Fear of Castration and Male Dread of Female Sexuality: The Theme of the “Vagina Dentata” in Dracula

Bram Stoker’s Dracula reflects the Victorian fear of reverse colonization by the “Other” or the encroachment of the outsider on the British Empire as well as the repression of sexuality in Victorian England; however, there is one facet of the text that has never been fully explored: the inherent male fear of castration and feminine sexuality as well as its relationship to the “vagina dentata” m...

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry

Challenges of children sexuality education, A narrative Review

Introduction: Sexuality education is an action that takes place from the early stages of human life with the aim of balanced and proportional growth of sexual instinct. The purpose of this research is to determine the challenges of sexuality education of children by the family, school and other relevant institutions. Methods: This is a review study, using the keywords of children and family and...

FROM FEMALE SEXUALITY AND HYSTERIA TO FEMININE PSYCHOLOGY: THE GENDER OF INSANITY IN LITERATURE From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the portrayal of insanity in modern Western texts and Middle Eastern writing, women

From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the portrayal of insanity in modern Western texts and Middle Eastern writing, women suffering from mental instability have been a captivating subject. Using today’s understanding of mental illness and psychological abnormality, do we find these women to be suffering from psychological conditions, or are they suffering from a “female malad...

"Something covered with an old blanket": Nancy and other dead mothers in Oliver Twist.

In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva outlines her theory of abjection as a simultaneous fascination and horror stemming from sensorial reminders of the subject's primal, psychological relation to the mother. In this essay, I show how these psychological perspectives can potentially result in acts of physical violence, which I call the "abject response." Applied to literatu...