EN 423 Essay 2

This essay had to respond to something from given quotations. I used this one:

“Luce Irigaray…attempts to posit an alternative body image which is for woman a full body image, based on two lips rather than a gaping hole…Irigaray’s writings…make it impossible to maintain the Freudian conception of the male body as full. The male body can only be full on the condition that the female body is lacking. To present a female body that is full poses the question, well what about the male body, what is it?”

Moira Gatens

I used Bedford’s If With a Beating Heart, Harris’s Lover and Farmer’s The Seal Woman.

My usual approach was to research the hell out of things and I did that with the first essay in this course. In this essay, either from time constraints or design I just spoke about the books and the only other work consulted was Sheila-Rae the Brave, a children’s book that my daughters loved.

As was usual at the time, no feedback was given on the second essay and my overall score of 6 (out of 7) for the course suggested it was accepted as legitimate. I don’t imagine there many other essays as odd as this one.