Female Body in Symbolic Language of Myth

A twentieth deoxycytidine monophosphate feminist writer and a philosopher, Rosi Baridotti in her prominent book, wandering(a) Subjects said that Women as a sign of engagement is frightful. It is elicit to note here that about of the discourses and contemporary feminist theories be build around much(prenominal) a statement, which often deals with the need of womens rich flesh, and positions it as the source of womens power, peril and weakness. Jane M Ussher in his seminal work, Managing the Monstrous womanish offers, Central to this positioning of the pistillate person person body as monstrous or beneficent is ambivalence associated with the power and danger perceived to be inherent in womans fecund flesh, her seeping, leaking, bleeding womb rest as site of befoulment and source of dread.(1)\nIn the depth psychology of the above statement do by Baridotti, it can be said without hesitation that the expiration that she is talking about is the anatomical keyence differe nce of the male and the egg-producing(prenominal) bodies. Hence, it will be soothe easy for us to say that the perception of the phallocentric system of a female body is created on the grounds of difference, where the process of othering takes place. Further, to elaborated on such difference we can also refer to Freudian and Cixousian understanding and go on to say that monstrosity of the distaff body lies in the difference that comes with its ability to shorten the phallus. Thus, it can be cogitate here that monstrous feminine is a product of emasculation anxiety and no motion this argument is aptly correct, but inwardly the greater arouse of this article, which is to unravel the purpose of the mythological texts in portraying female characters as monstrous, it can be a bit sturdy one, because not all women characters within a myth is delineate as monstrous physically. on that point are two dissimilar kinds of female bodies that are dedicate in a mythologic text. On e type of female bodies found in the mythological texts are represented wit...