 | Claudia Tate - 1993 - 313 pages
...of a racist, patriarchal, and anti-erotic society." 18 She adds that The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos...self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. (p. 54) Desire here exceeds sexual pleasure to become consummate self-affirmation, a confirming life... | |
 | Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin - 1993 - 696 pages
...of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos...self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence... | |
 | James B. Nelson, Sandra P. Longfellow - 1994 - 428 pages
...of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self, and the chaos...we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For once having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and... | |
 | Pamela Cooper-White - 1995 - 354 pages
...words of the late African American Lesbian poet and activist writer Audre Lorde, "a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self, and the chaos of our strongest feelings."82 In contrast, pornography "is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents... | |
 | Susan Cahill - 1996 - 448 pages
...of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos...self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence... | |
 | Elizabeth Stuart, Adrian Thatcher - 1996 - 498 pages
...eros, Audre Lorde affirms, as 'the open and fearless underlining of [her] capacity for joy.' The erotic 'is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire' ('The Erotic,' 56, 54). The immediate catalysts of erotic pleasure are diverse. Sex, art, poetry, intellectual... | |
 | Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, Jean F. O'Barr - 1997 - 566 pages
...of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos...self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence... | |
 | Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury - 1997 - 452 pages
...sensation without feeling. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and oo the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal...self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. It is never easv to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence... | |
 | Myriam J. A. Chancy - 1997 - 222 pages
...embody the power of the erotic as theorized by Audre Lorde who writes: The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos...internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experience it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling... | |
 | Heidi Safia Mirza - 1997 - 326 pages
...female power of the unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. She says that: 'the erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings' (1984: 54). I was pleasantly surprised to realize that this is similar to what I said about the chaos... | |
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. 
