Biopower with a capital B
Monday, May 7th, 2012
According to Michel Foucault, “biopower” emerged as the deployment of alliance and its complementary sovereign power over death (to allow or disallow life) shifted to the deployment of sexuality and accompanying power over life on the individual bodily level and on a larger population level (138-139). Foucault continues with that this power over life uses […]
Biopower with a capital B
Tags: Ambiguity, Complexity, Foucault, hermaphrodite, Middlesex, Power, Scientific
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Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Monday, May 7th, 2012
The Christina Jorgensen case is a tragic example of how the media could either make or break you. It also reiterates the notion that when it comes to touchy subjects in America, there’s no such thing as an acceptable gray area (Abortion, for or against; Politics, red or blue and sometimes green). As for the […]
Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Tags: Ambiguity, Discourse, hermaphrodite, Identity, Media, Sexuality
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Directions to the Inside
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
I think maybe all of the gender theory I have been reading for another class has gotten to me because I found myself increasingly frustrated with Cal’s characterization of gender and sex. I also, however, don’t have a solution for the ways in which society in general is stuck in the binary of male or […]
Directions to the Inside
Tags: Foucault, Identity, Middlesex, Power-Relations
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Ourselves, looking at others, looking at us
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
This week, reading Books Three and Four, I found that the story in Middlesex changes once Cal turns the focus on himself. “Up until now it hasn’t been my world,” he says in the beginning of Book Three (217). The story’s style and quality is right to change; it’s harder to talk about oneself than […]
Ourselves, looking at others, looking at us
Tags: Gender Identity, hermaphrodite, Middlesex
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