The Power of Passionlessness and The Power of Prynne
Monday, March 5th, 2012
After this past class, in which we discussed Victorian Hawthorne writing about Puritans, I noticed new layers in The Scarlet Letter. In regards to the documents in Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, the deployment of sexuality, and power-relations, were evident. Hawthorne’s Victorian influence is seen in “Another View of Hester.” He speculates, […]
The Power of Passionlessness and The Power of Prynne
Tags: Passionlessness, Power-Relations, Resistance, The Deployment of Sexuality
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Power Is Not “The Man”
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
“Where there is power there is resistance” (Foucault 95). After reviewing my notes from our previous class, and doing Internet research on my own to clarify terms we discussed in class, I would like to discuss this quote. I will address what it means in terms of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, as well […]
Power Is Not “The Man”
Tags: Foucault, Power, Power-Relations, Resistance
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