Essays on Human Sexuality

Sexuality and desire have always been explored in the Gothic genre, either in the form of sexual awakening, homoeroticism or female sexuality. Sexuality in literature is frequently a reflection of the time period and social environment in which the text was written. Thus, in Bram...

The play A Streetcar Named Desire, considered as one of the finest work of Tennessee Williams. Like any other traditional plays the presentation of women in the play are of submissive characters, dependent and controlled by men. The female characters projected from the lens of...

To begin this topic regarding human sexuality, I will be diving into the controversies within the field itself. I will be covering basic concepts such as, human sexuality, societies stance on the topic and general research that portray the topic in the way it should...

In Duffy’s poems ‘Warming her Pearls’, ‘Standing Female Nude’ and ‘Little Red Cap’ the experiences of the proletariat are central to the narrative of the poems. Through a materialist conception of history, it is evident that each narrator voices perspective at different stages of the...

The British feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey introduced the theory of the “male gaze” in her 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. In the essay, Mulvey sets forth that in a society that is ruled by “sexual imbalance,” media is constructed with the pleasure...

Research on race, ethnicity, and nationalism in both the social sciences and humanities rests upon a model of ethnicity as a set of socially constructed boundaries in political, economic, cultural, social, and moral time and space. Ethnicity can be a signifier not only of physical...

In the past, sexuality was never discussed in “polite” society which often led to those with ‘different’ sexuality’s to feel isolated or disconnected from their own sexual experiences and feelings, two of these such people are Emily Dickinson and Sherwood Anderson, who included these themes...