여성의 (포르노그래피) 리터러시-사라 워터스의 『핑거스미스』
Women’s (Pornography) Literacy in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith
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This paper aims to examine the heroine’s ‘pornography literacy’ as empowerment in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith. In this provocative Neo-victorian text, Maud’s pornography literacy―her capability of appropriating pornography―enables her to articulate woman’s sexual desires, which was strictly prohibited in the Victorian era. As she is forced to wear white leather gloves and a petticoat restraining her body all the time, Lady Maud’s compulsory reading of pornography reveals her suppressed status. However, while reading pornographic texts and acquiring knowledge of female sexuality other than heterosexuality, Maud gradually comes to acknowledge her sexual desires for her maid Sue. As a result, she challenges and defies patriarchal Uncle Lilly, deceitful husband Rivers and even her matriarchal mother Mrs. Sucksby, all of whom have tried to dominate and exploit her body and sexuality. After all, Maud’s writing pornography from a woman’s perspective represents the possibilities of women’s appropriation and resistance as well as subjection to patriarchal and heterosexual pornography.
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This paper aims to examine the heroine’s ‘pornography literacy’ as empowerment in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith. In this provocative Neo-victorian text, Maud’s pornography literacy―her capability of appropriating pornography―enables her to articulate woman’s sexual desires, which was strictly prohibited in the Victorian era. As she is forced to wear white leather gloves and a petticoat restraining her body all the time, Lady Maud’s compulsory reading of pornography reveals her suppressed status. However, while reading pornographic texts and acquiring knowledge of female sexuality other than heterosexuality, Maud gradually comes to acknowledge her sexual desires for her maid Sue. As a result, she challenges and defies patriarchal Uncle Lilly, deceitful husband Rivers and even her matriarchal mother Mrs. Sucksby, all of whom have tried to dominate and exploit her body and sexuality. After all, Maud’s writing pornography from a woman’s perspective represents the possibilities of women’s appropriation and resistance as well as subjection to patriarchal and heterosexual pornography.
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