Contrast A, with B
1. Does the green sentence mean "The text also contrasts and compares A (the notion of male creativity as logical and ordered or cerebral) and B (the notion of female creativity as intuitive and connected with the body)?
2. Does the red sentence mean " Schneemann revives and repeats the notion that an essential aspect of femininity is located in the body"?
Context:
Removing the apron and nude, she unraveled a scroll from her vagina and read from it; Schneemann recounts that this text came from one of her earlier films, a discussion with a male filmmaker addressing his misunderstanding of her art. The text also contrasts stereotypical notions of male creativity as logical and ordered or cerebral, with female creativity as intuitive and connected with the body. Interior Scroll refuses this clichéd polarity, along with the Enlightenment mind-body division. In the performance the meaning of the body of the (female) artist is recoded to emphasize its reasoning and logic, and it becomes the site of creativity; the female body comes to speech, breaking the discipline of art history’s insistence on keeping women static and silent, on the margins of that history. Schneemann retrieves the notion of an essential aspect of femininity located in the body, but she is more concerned with breaking down the division between mind and body and elevating the latter—male or female—as an important site of action and creativity.
Top answer
1. This sentence is a prelude to what follows. It presents the notions of a stereotype that exists regarding male and female creativity.
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- This sentence is a prelude to what follows.
- It presents the notions of a stereotype that exists regarding male and female creativity.
- The point here is not comparison or contrast, but simply an introduction to what follows in the paragraph.
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1. This sentence is a prelude to what follows. It presents the notions of a stereotype that exists regarding male and female creativity. The point here is not comparison or contrast, but simply an introduction to what follows in the paragraph.
2. The point here is that the artist seems to be reinforcing the stereotype of the woman's body as the center of her existence, but this
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