...Lauretis observes with respect to Lot man's schema: The hero must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female. . . . If the work of the mythical structuration is to establish distinctions, the primary distinction...

...Teresa de Lauretis suggests that the hero of oedipal narratives "must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female" (Alice Doesn't 118-19). 6 The desire to formulate a "new," implicitly masculine social body is not...

...he encounters is female. According to de Lauretis, "the hero must be male regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever...is morphologically female and indeed, simply, the woman" (118-19). By its verY nature, then, "representation works to support the male status of the...

...specifically sexual implications of Lotman's plot-structure have been spelled out by Teresa de Lauretis: In this mythical-textual mechanics, then, the hero must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female...

...and the space to which he crosses is always female: "The hero must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever...is morphologically female and indeed, simply, the womb."19 Sexual difference is mapped into the texts of Hollywood films, where women's anatomical differences...

...characters, for women can occupy male space and men — although less likely — can occupy female space: "In this mythical-textual mechanics, then, the hero must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female,...

...with respect to traditional Western narrative that: The hero must be male, regardless of the gender of the textimage, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female. . . . The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle...

...the feminist theorist Teresa de Lauretis, who writes: the hero must be male regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female. . . . The implication here is not inconsequential. For if the work of the mythical structuration is...