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__**Issues of sexuality/gendered relations: (Angela, Nathalie E, Thierry) **__


==Sexuality is a very important theme in "Disgrace." "Disgrace," a novel written by J.M. Coetzee in 1999, depicts society in post-apartheid South Africa. The issue of sexuality is especially important because of South Africa's new constitution that gives men and women equel rights regardless of their sexual orientation. This is very significant when dealing with Lucy, a lesbian. Another significant issue dealing with Lucy is rape. In post-apartheid South Africa, rape became such a problem that a young South African woman could be expected to be raped at least twice in her average life. In "Disgrace," Coetzee describes the rape of Lucy that occured on the hands of three "black" males. ==

===  most of the book's ideas revolve around the theme sexuality and gendered relation. from the very first page the author discusses the main character's (david lurie) sex life, and reveals the intimate details of his experiences proving the importance of sexuality. He first tells us that david was married and divorced twice and since he attains no sexuality from his wife he now visits a certain prostitute soraya regularly once a week too saturate his desires. the next important event in the novel also involves gender related issues where david indulges in sexual activities with a student of his melanie after a series of encounters he is caught and ends up leaving the university to a remote village with his daughter, he next sex-related event that takes place is when one tragic night three thugs break into the house and after stealing a few goods and burning david, rape his daughter repeatedly which symbolizes the male dominance an the demise of the helpless inferior female gender, which is sad because south africa at the time had just enforced female equality, after this event the sex-starved david lurie engages in sexual activity with the local vet and his daughter's friend Bev shaw which shows us the need of this crucial activity since after everything it cost him he could not go a few months without it. ===  In general the novel's main character has a poor relationship with the female gender, from his two divorced wife, to the prostitute he regularly visited, his mistress and student, his daughter, until his lover Bev. David never had a successful relationship with any of the women in his life and felt insecure that is why he always resorted to such extreme actions, and slept with them, until the very end of the novel David's representation of power did not mesh with society.