I share your disappointment that the book didn\u2019t tackle the real fascination of \u201cCatholic and\/or\/but feminist,\u201d which is the dynamic of submission in feminism: what kinds are privileged (sorry, English major), who says so, why, etc. <\/p>\n
Take Morrissey. One of the weirdnesses of his persona is that he is avowedly feminist, and yet he totally possesses, in Laura Mulvey\u2019s eternal phrase, \u201cto-be-looked-at-ness.\u201d Just as much as any woman in von Sternberg or Hitchcock, he is completely constructed as an image to be consumed by the audience. He chooses to position himself as powerless and for-your-pleasure (or, according to St. Morrissey<\/em>, as a Northern Woman). And while I\u2019ve read about why he might like Factory girls or Northern Women as a viewer, has anyone really accounted for why he would choose aesthetic submission for himself?<\/p>\nOf course, I\u2019m not trying to suggest a real equivalence. Aesthetic submission can be worn lightly because it\u2019s a pose, and authenticity is the enemy (or irritant) of art. Religious submission is another matter entirely. But in the sense that the aesthetically submissive must choose that for themselves, maybe there is something of a model there for a submission that does not become dominating and coercive and violent, as feminists fear. Or maybe it does, and Moz and Grace Kelly really are just so much siren song luring us into degradation. (Morrissey might like that.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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