They perform the labour of continual fetishisation on themselves
Does the highlighted sentence want to say "Freud believes the only area that women can play the role of a fetishist (someone who fetishises things) is when they wear specific clothes. But Baudrillard says if women do not play the role of a fetishist is because they are too busy with making their body similar to what men imagine in their fetishisations. In other words, women play the role of dolls that make themselves beautiful for men"?
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In Sherman’s Untitled, 1985, she uses a prosthetic butt to turn herself into a doll. This could be read as a self-fetishisation of the female body. While in Freud the only possibility for female fetishism was perhaps in relation to clothes, Baudrillard says that if women are not fetishists, it is because they perform the labour of continual fetishisation on themselves – they become dolls.
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catttt Does the highlighted sentence want to say "Freud believes the only area that women can play the role of a fetishist (someone who fetishises things) is when they wear specific clothes. I am no Freudian by a long shot, but from the little I know, no, he says women are not fetishists because they do not have the fear of castration that men have. However, this writer says that he thought women can be fetishists by attaching sexual meaning to articles of clothing, by being sexually aroused themselves that way.
- catttt Does the highlighted sentence want to say "Freud believes the only area that women can play the role of a fetishist (someone who fetishises things) is when they wear specific clothes.
- I am no Freudian by a long shot, but from the little I know, no, he says women are not fetishists because they do not have the fear of castration that men have.
- However, this writer says that he thought women can be fetishists by attaching sexual meaning to articles of clothing, by being sexually aroused themselves that way.
- This is all fascinating to think about, of course, but not before lunch for me, thanks.
- catttt But Baudrillard says if women do not play the role of a fetishist is because they are too busy with making their body similar to what men imagine in their fetishisations.
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cattttDoes the highlighted sentence want to say "Freud believes the only area that women can play the role of a fetishist (someone who fetishises things) is when they wear specific clothes.
I am no Freudian by a long shot, but from the little I know, no, he says women are not fetishists because they do not have the fear of castration that men have. However,
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