Gulliver Phallophorus and the Maids of Honour in Brobdingnag

Boucé, Paul-Gabriel

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“…(1726/2012) in Brobdingang. In this fictional land of the giants, Gulliver shrinks to the size of a pea in the land and is used and abused as an object of female consumption as he oscillates between reified baby-doll and human dildo (see Boucé 2001).…”

Section: Digital Tagging As Phallic Touch: Capture Currency and Selfmentioning

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Selfies, relfies and phallic tagging: posthuman part-icipations in teen digital sexuality assemblages

Renold

Ringrose

2016

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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Inspired by posthuman feminist theory (Braidotti, 2006; 2013) this paper explores young people's entanglement with the biotechnological landscape of image creation and exchange in young networked peer cultures. We suggest that we are seeing new formations of sexual objectification when the more-than-human is foregrounded and the blurry ontological divide between human (flesh) and machine (digital) are enlivened through queer and feminist materialism analyses. Drawing upon multi-modal qualitative data generated with teen boys and girls living in urban inner London and semi-rural Wales (UK) we map how the digital affordances of Facebook 'tagging' can operate as a form of coercive 'phallic touch' in ways that shore up and transgress normative territories of dis/embodied gender, sexuality and age. We conclude by arguing that we need creative approaches that can open up spaces for a posthuman accounting of the material intra-actions through which phallic power relations participate in predictable and unpredictable ways. Introduction: girls, over-embodiment and the cyber relationship cultures of young sexualities "The body is transformed, on the one hand, into an assemblage of detachable parts, on the other, a threshold of transcendence of the subject. This paradoxical Gender and Education, 25 (6): 665-670 Van Doorn, N. (2011) Digital spaces, material traces: How matter comes to matter in online performances of gender, sexuality and embodiment, Media,

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Section: Digital Tagging As Phallic Touch: Capture Currency and Selfmentioning

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Selfies, relfies and phallic tagging: posthuman part-icipations in teen digital sexuality assemblages

Renold

Ringrose

2016

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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Augustan Manliness and Its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift

Karremann¹

2011

Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature From the Middle Ages to the Present

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The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag

Armintor¹

2007

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This article builds on Marjorie Nicolson's well-known argument about Lemuel Gulliver as microscopic specimen in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. It contends that Swift inflects Gulliver in Brobdingnag more specifically as a pocket-sized instrument in the hands of enormous female consumers, not unlike the fashionable "pocket-microscopes" of his day. "The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag" shows that Swift's portrayal of an English adventurer turned objectified "little man" underscores the emasculating effects of the commodification and perceived feminization of Enlightenment science in the new bourgeois culture.

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Gulliver Phallophorus and the Maids of Honour in Brobdingnag

Cited by 4 publications

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Selfies, relfies and phallic tagging: posthuman part-icipations in teen digital sexuality assemblages

Selfies, relfies and phallic tagging: posthuman part-icipations in teen digital sexuality assemblages

Augustan Manliness and Its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift

The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag

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