https://arthur.noerve.com/categories/feminism/ Recent content in Feminism on Arthur Nørve Hugo -- gohugo.io en Please use and share :) Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:25:11 +0100 https://arthur.noerve.com/books/revealing-male-bodies/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:25:11 +0100 https://arthur.noerve.com/books/revealing-male-bodies/ https://arthur.noerve.com/books/three-women-taddeo/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:48:10 +0100 https://arthur.noerve.com/books/three-women-taddeo/ <p>I enjoyed this book. It made me want to see things. It made me want to be considerate and thoughtful. It made me think of the women in my life in general and my relationship with them in particular.</p> <p>Having these stories told by a woman with such close and extensive knowledge of the lives and situations of these women was enlightening. The epilogue is fantastic! It has to be re-read!</p> https://arthur.noerve.com/books/how-to-think-more-about-sex-botton/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:47:25 +0100 https://arthur.noerve.com/books/how-to-think-more-about-sex-botton/ <p>A simple book about sex, love and relationships. Most of it is fairly common thoughtwork and some is based on Freud&rsquo;s work.</p> <h2 id="ideas-at-a-glance">Ideas at a glance</h2> <ul> <li>We grow up to be adults that monitor ourselves and our actions, <em>expelled from paradise</em></li> <li>We nevertheless wish to be accepted as we are</li> <li>Physiological sexual reactions satisfy us because they are thought to override rationality</li> <li>Sex does not last for very long. The post-coital mood is often bad.</li> <li>Sexy people have symmetrical faces</li> <li>We tend to tiptoe around what we want. Thus making others and ourselves suffer.</li> <li>Sexual rejection is a case of bad luck rather than a serious moral judgement</li> <li>Relationships can make us get to know our partners to well, thus inhibiting sex and eroticism</li> <li>Small, trivial, everyday issues propagate into our relationships and cause petty</li> <li>Being in love is to grant them with an ideal idea of them in our eyes. Wrongdoing is then perceived as betrayal of our ideals.</li> <li>Modern pornography is devoid of any connection with reality</li> <li>Adultery is both bad and good at the same time, and can be seen as pathologic to long-term relationships.</li> <li>Sex runs sociiety; so many of the things we do, we do for sex</li> </ul> <h2 id="lessons-for-long-term-relationships-from-manet">Lessons for long-term relationships from Manet</h2> <p>Manet does not invent the charms of asparagus, but rather reminds us of the qualities that we knew but overlook.</p> https://arthur.noerve.com/books/living-dolls-walter/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:47:09 +0100 https://arthur.noerve.com/books/living-dolls-walter/ <p>Published in Britain in 2010.</p> <p>Already a bit dated in some aspects due to the rapid expansion of social networks, the internet and proliferation of technology in general. I find especially interesting the rise of OnlyFans, pornography and the Instagram-aesthetics.</p> <p>The book is divided in two parts:</p> <ol> <li>General talk of the (hyper)sexualised (modern) culture</li> <li>Sexual determinism and myths about biological differences</li> </ol> <h2 id="people-with-flawed-claims">People with flawed claims</h2> <p>In the book Natasha Walter mentions several authors and works that apparently contain faulty or badly done research.</p>