Sharon Stockton
Agency, Inscription, and Bodies of Depth:
Rape and Technology in Twentieth-Century Literature

NOTES

1
In "The Thermodynamics of Gender: Lawrence, Science and 

Sexism, Michael Wutz places the Lawrentian hot (male) and cold 

(female) bodies within the context of thermodynamics.

2
Notwithstanding the possibility that Mellors "uses his power 

caringly," the first instance of intercourse between him and 

Constance Chatterley is, in fact, rape. I cannot agree with Wall that 

Mellors's "caring" and his association with myth legitimate and 

rewrite the incident as an "initiation"--although this is clearly what 

Lawrence himself would claim (145). Wall is not alone in her 

apologia for the rape scene in Lady Chatterley's Lover; Swift argues 

that, when not looked at "superficially," the novel is about "the 

democracy of touch" (165), and many other critics have claimed that 

the sacredness of the event excuses its violence against women, 

including Black, Spilka, Schorer, and nearly every contributor (all of 

whom are male) to Jeffrey Meyers' The Legacy of D. H. Lawrence. 

All of these apologies for Lawrence overlook not only the violence 

explicit in Lawrence's representations of sexual relationships but in 

the Western construction of gender and identity generally.

3
See Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema for 

the ground breaking work on scopophilia, "structures of looking," 

and the power of the controlling gaze.

4
In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers writes extensively 

about the migrant nature of the worker in late capitalism.