Hey everyone! Here’s my video and write up. I’ll miss our wonderful class!! Originally, I intended to create a visual representation of the deployment of sexuality described in Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1. I wanted to display the ways in which different discourses in the media have represented sexuality and influenced me […]
Hi all! I want to thank everyone for contributing to possibly the best class I’ve taken so far at Hunter/Macaulay. I was nervous at first that there were only five of us (7 with Lee and John), and that people would be judgmental or intimidating. You are all the best combination of smart, insightful, and respectful, and I’m […]
Hi, just want to send along this article on changing attitudes about sexuality for teenage boys. Enjoy your break! http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/opinion/caring-romantic-american-boys.html?src=rechp
Hi all! The sociological term I was thinking of today is called dramaturgy (it has a different meaning than the one Colby explained). From wikipedia: Dramaturgy or Dramaturgical Perspective is a specialized symbolic interactionism paradigm developed by Erving Goffman, seeing life as a performance. As “actors,” we have a status, which is the part that we play, where we […]
We’re able to paint a clear picture of the world’s sexual history with what we’ve seen in the Museum of Sex and read in Peiss this past week. I’ll get to Humbert later on. I spent a lot of time in the first room of the museum reading about the gradually increasing push in the […]
Hi everyone, Your insights this week are ablaze, abloom, and astute! Forgive my A addiction, but perhaps it will inspire you to think of all the many meanings that accrue (there we go again) to Hester’s A as in shifts from adultery to more apt (oops) descriptions of her as she changes in character throughout […]
At the end of our discussion last week, Professor Quinby prompted us to think about how Foucault’s notion of the deployment of sexuality shows up in our readings. I want to focus primarily on this weeks essays as I found them really interesting and a good springboard for discussion about the Scarlet Letter in class. […]
The past (two) week’s class was very helpful in cementing the main points of Foucault’s concepts about power (hooray for charts). During the same week, in a gender and society class, I was introduced to intersectional theory via the text, “Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter” by Margaret L. Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins. […]
