Author: stacy
Fativism
My area of interest is the intersection of media rhetoric and the effect on women’s body image. The media plays a tremendous role in sending mixed messages to women about their bodies. The representation of women in the media and popular culture is within a patriarchal gaze, continuously perpetuating the tropes of women as objects … [Read more…]
Love, Sex and Ziti: A rhetorical analysis of gendered identity as represented by food, desire and patriarchy in The Sopranos
Abstract: This article examined the semiotic representation of food symbolizing love, sex, and desire in The Sopranos. Throughout the television series The Sopranos, food served as a semiotic representation of love, sex, and desire. Women were portrayed in gender normative roles and used feeding practices to serve men, representing their sexual desires. Alternatively, men were the recipients of food and sexual pleasure. … [Read more…]
Book Review – Tasteful Domesticity by Sarah Walden
In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden explores the scholarship on cookbooks and how they’ve served as a rhetorical space for women in nineteenth-century America. She claims that Tasteful Domesticity is the first book-length study of women’s rhetoric in American cookbooks (13). Walden posits that cookbooks not only “satisfy Aristotle’s famous definition of rhetoric as ‘locating the … [Read more…]
Cacciatore On Isocrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_1spZLre8
Preplatonic Philosophers
Stacy Cacciatore To understand Plato and Socrates, we must first understand the philosophers that came before them. At first, I was confused at the difference between the terms “Presocratics” and “Pre-platonics”. Nietzsche coined the term, “Preplatonics” because he posited that Plato was the first philosopher that included components of the other philosophers that … [Read more…]
Cacciatore’s Views On Plato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXDDa4qeVQ&t=1s