#deborah Gregory

[readingbibooks]

“Why do women who do not identify as heterosexual choose to have sexual relations with men?

First of all, many women say they do not particularly look for a man. Most of us feel closed and hostile to most men most of the time. It is not maleness itself which attracts us, nor do we seek something from men that we find lacking in women. Often we look for the same emotional and sexual qualities, the same spiritual and physical qualities, in men as in women. And the truth of our experience is that sometimes we do find those qualities in a man. We do not ignore the fact that the bearer of these qualities is a man: not our own awareness, nor the ways even the most androgynous man behaves, nor the ways in which the world is structured would ever let us do that, nor do we want to. Simply, we would rather confront the difficulties than avoid them. We do not experience all dealings with men as servicing them and draining ourselves at our sisters' expense. We would experience more draining of psychic energy by cutting off from our own possibilities than we do from accepting them and working from there.”

- Deborah Gregory, From Where I Stand: A Case for Feminist Bisexuality from Sex and Love: New Thoughts on Old Contradictions

[iadoredisney]

Can we talk about the fact that The Cheetah girls only had zero white main characters? I think that's pretty great! I don't have much room as I am white, myself. But it's definitely something! Especially considering the fact the movie came out back in 2003.

I didn't watch it when it first came out, as I was only a year old. But I did later on when I was a kid! And I still listen to them!

Anyway, can anyone fact check me and see just how good the representation was in this movie?

[deborahkerr]

Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck in BELOVED INFIDEL (1959) dir. Henry King

[citizenscreen]

Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck for BELOVED INFIDEL (1959), directed by Henry King

[tourneurs]

Beloved Infidel (1959) dir. Henry King

[metropolicinema]

[nowvoyagerit]

Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr in Beloved Infidel (Henry King, 1959)

[midnights-wish]

"The current head of that ward, an alienist named Menas Gregory, had been trying for years to change that haunted reputation. He angrily defended people in his care, many of whom had been brought in against their will when their families had them declared crazy. The lost occupants of his ward needed help, Gregory argued, not mockery, not groundless fear. He worried at how slow people accepted that, even in his own institution. 'There is, at the present time, no place where these patients may receive proper treatment."

Deborah Blum, 'The Poisoner's Handbook'.

[yatanis]

[radio-therookie-blog]

And then in the very next scene..she was put over his lap😳👀🤚😌

Minute by minute, the sweetness drained down into her out of the willow trees. She stood up, and stumbling over the phonograph, was momentarily against him leaning into the hollow of his rounded shoulder. —F. Scott Fitzgerald ( Tender is the Night, 1934 )

[readingbibooks]

“The problems are different for bisexual, lesbian and heterosexual women because their lives represent different aspects of the challenge to heterosexism and male supremacy. But it seems to me that the difficulties all hinge on taking control over the representation of our sexuality and our sexual relationships - at the same time as we make changes in our lives, we need to be able to communicate the substance and meanings of these changes to other women. Otherwise we are not challenging male supremacy, merely accommodating to it.”

- Deborah Gregory, From Where I Stand: A Case for Feminist Bisexuality from Sex and Love: New Thoughts on Old Contradictions

[deborahkerr]

Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck in BELOVED INFIDEL (1958) dir. Henry King

[radio-therookie-blog]

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Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr photographed by Bob Willoughby during the making of Beloved Infidel (1959)

[metropolicinema]

[insidecroydon]

Norwood to Hollywood: Oscar-winner who dressed the stars

Hollywood epic: Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is one of the best-known movies of its era. And Elizabeth Haffenden was at the heart of its success SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A career spanning 40 years in the movies, including two Academy Awards and a BAFTA for her work, marks out this Croydon costume artist as an all-time great, as DAVID MORGAN explains Careful design: Elizabeth Haffenden at work in…

[tenth-sentence]

In 1747, a newly married couple – John Ferren and Deborah Nolan – were discovered to both be women after the wedding, but the marriage was not challenged: 'The supposed John Ferren was discovered after ye ceremony were over, to be in person a woman.'

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory