Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
A few points we mentioned today may be reiterated. Back to my reference about Abraham Lincoln. During the Victorian Era, the actions and syntax of male companionship had much higher thresholds in order to cross into homosexual territory. This ideology even draws comparisons with the homoerotic relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. […]
Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Tags: Female Friendship, Haywood, Homoeroticism, Homosexuality, Peiss, Same-sex Relationships, Smith-Rosenberg, Vernacular, Victorian Era, Walt Whitman
Posted in March 13, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »
So That’s What the Victorians Did
Monday, March 12th, 2012
My notion of the Victorian lifestyle has been shattered. Gone are the images of couples cold to one another in bed, and a society as tight as the petticoats the women wore. Replace it with sexually charged men and women who were not abashed to share their feelings with one another, and radical thinkers espousing […]
So That’s What the Victorians Did
Tags: Discourse, Female Friendship, Foucault, Peiss, Scientia-Sexualis, The Deployment of Sexuality
Posted in March 13, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Perversions and Murky Conclusions
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This weeks reading was really fascinating and the topics discussed in Peiss’ book sparked a lot of thought for me. In particular two things really struck me, both from chapter 6. First I was interested in Document 5 because it reminded me of our discussion last week about the notion of science and Scienta Sexualis […]
Perversions and Murky Conclusions
Tags: Female Friendship, Homosexuality, Identity, Peiss, Rosenberg, Sexuality
Posted in March 13, Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »