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1. Does "to appease their own anxiety at Sherman’s exposure" mean "to heal their own anxiety through (by means of) Sherman’s exposure"?
2. Do both "inventing" and "attending" refer to "critics"?
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It is interesting that when faced with these images of a woman who is both subject and object of the gaze, critics attempted perhaps to appease their own anxiety at Sherman’s exposure of the masquerade of femininity by inventing reassuring narratives that characterised Sherman’s portraits as vulnerable, hysterical women rather than attending to them as explorations of the mythemes of femininity.
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catttt 1. Does "to appease their own anxiety at Sherman’s exposure" mean "to heal their own anxiety through (by means of) Sherman’s exposure"? No.
- catttt 1.
- Does "to appease their own anxiety at Sherman’s exposure" mean "to heal their own anxiety through (by means of) Sherman’s exposure"?
- No.
- That is a special definition of "at" meaning something like "about" or "as a result of", not "by means of".
- catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "to appease their own anxiety at Sherman’s exposure" mean "to heal their own anxiety through (by means of) Sherman’s exposure"?
No. That is a special definition of "at" meaning something like "about" or "as a result of", not "by means of".
catttt2. Do both "inventing" and "attending" refer to "critics"?
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