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| Feminists condemn billboards featuring half naked women and the ‘pornofication’ of society. In daily life, they claim, sexuality is losing its significance. On the contrary, Marli Huijer claims. |
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She advocates ‘public sexual stories’ and ‘uninhibited surrender’ in the January issue of Filosofie Magazine (Philosophy Magazine). Huijer was the Opzij Professor and is now lector in philosophy ath the Haagse Hogeschool and the University of Leiden.
A quote from the article: ‘Looking for new, undiscovered forms of subjectivity has appealed to many feminists. Especially those feminists that doubt the existence of ‘the’ woman, are challenged to look for women’s freedom in new expressions: a new female writing, speech, imaging, and new female sexualities.
Andreas Burnier, Kristien Hemmerechts, Maaike Meijer, Patricia de Martelaere, Luce Irigaray, French & Saunders, Heleen van Royen, Maria van Dalen en Antjie Krog are but a few of the many women who have attempted to portray the female sexuality in new and unexpected ways in novels, films, TV-series, philosophical texts, photo’s and poetry. Shame has no part in this. The setting aside of shame, and with that the norms and values about what is permitted or acceptable, causes women to speak about en enjoy sex is new ways. Rather than attempting to ban (some forms of) sexuality from the public forum, these new feminists apply their imagination, humour and fantasy to introduce new and different images to the public.
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Hardly anything goes on in our corner of the Algarve. The house we live in is on an impassable sandy track; we get very excited when a strange car drives past. Occasionally the shepherd disturbs the peace with his flock of sheep. In principle, I thrive in such a stimulus-free environment. But every now and then I crave a healthy dose of action, tension and excitement. This is no problem so long as I make a bit of an effort to help things along.
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