Rethinking Thelma and Louise: Transgressive Goddesses, or Cheap Thrill for the M(P)atriarchy?
Rethinking Thelma and Louise : Transgressive Goddesses, or Cheap Thrill for the M(P)atriarchy? The problem with representation of women in film as violent and vengeful is more than a little complex. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan in her essay “The Story of Draupadi’s Disrobing” questions the truth of female agency, and the bestowing of the term “feminist” solely based on the woman’s physical resistance to her injured state: The avenging woman-like and following from the myth of the female goddess-is undeniably, in her energy and anger, and empowering fiction for women; her revenge, in narrative terms, unequivocably establishes the wrong of her violation, and institutes justice in an unjust world; and her represention as a being capable of violence, even of killing, is a rejection of eternal victimization. Nevertheless feminist’s embrace of feminist heroines, and in particular-in the context of contemporary I...
