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An 8 page paper which examines the male-centered aspects of the controversial novelist’s sexual politics, which was defined by feminist Simone de Beauvoir as “phallic pride.” Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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notion of "masculine supremacy" (Spilka 387). In the Lawrence novel trilogy - Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love - female characters are, in one
way or another, dominated by their male counterparts (Spilka 387). Through a careful examination of these texts, it becomes quite clear that the sexual politics of D.H. Lawrence is
male-centered. In each work, he expresses the notion that the concept of an "ideal male" must be constructed as a type of defense mechanism to keep the male separate
from the from the female, who through the course of modernization, sought to expand their place well beyond the constraints of home, hearth and especially the bedroom (Spilka 387).
Renowned early feminist Simone de Beauvoir vigorously attacked Lawrences engendered sexual politics in The Second Sex. In a chapter entitled "D.H. Lawrence or Phallic Pride," de Beauvoir wrote, "The
heroes who have Lawrences approval demand from their mistresses much more than the gift of their bodies" (218). According to de Beauvoir, Lawrence believes that, "Thought and action have
their roots in the phallus; lacking the phallus, woman has no rights... she can play a mans role, and even brilliantly, but it is just a game, lacking serious verity"
(219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women. After being separated from his father, a coalminer, by his domineering and over-attentive mother, Paul develops
an unhealthy sexual fixation on her, reminiscent of the Oedipal conflict described by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. When Paul turns to his mother as a surrogate father, the results are
disastrous for the son is unable to fulfill the Victorian socially prescribed feminine role of enslavement, in which the inferior "carries and fetches, carries and fetches" (Lawrence 471). As
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