Pornotroping

Quick meaning: Pornotroping is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of pornotrope.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of pornotrope.

More Meanings

1. (feminism) The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.

Example Sentences

Focusing on acts of (sexual) violence directed against the black female body, Harman knows that her attempt to represent the past necessarily "translates into a potential for pornotroping."

The offensive typology of blackness offered up in Mam's law seems to set up an impassable barrier to anything like an originary African ethnicity: any proud reclaiming of African origins is always already anticipated by a voracious pornotroping.

Unlike Douglass, who turns away from representing the exteriority of black femininity, pornotroping functions as the complex generative source of Brown's identity construction, which rhetorically hovers between maternal fleshiliness and masculine personhood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pornotrope, transploitation, pornification, womanization, sexification, trannyism.

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