Resumen de Disgusto e femminilità in Atterraggio di emergenza di Shulamit Lapid
In her "From Disgust to Humanity. Sexual Orientation & Constitutional Law", Martha Nussbaum deals with the concept of �disgust� in the human culture. According to Nussbaum, �Disgust� is the reaction to the problematic relationship between the human being, his animal nature and his mortality. �Projective disgust� consists in projecting man�s �disgusting nature� onto particular social groups or human categories, to create a sort of boundary mark between �Man�s Purity� and the �Disgust�. This boundary mark is, first, occupied by Woman and, after, by individuals considered �like women� (homosexuals, Jews�).
This essay applies Martha Nussbaum�s theories to a short story by Shulamit Lapid, an Israeli writer. In her "Nekhitat Ones" (�emergency landing�), the author represents a rape acted by a woman to a man who, for the disgust provoked by this traumatic experience, probably dies. The opposition between femininity and masculinity is exasperated; presenting a �rape at the contrary�, Shulamit Lapid makes the reader feel the horror connected to this terrible act and discusses the question of disgust as a cultural and a social mark
