Health Issue? Really Now…
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Hooray for disrupted internet connections! Each week, I enjoy Peiss’ book a little more. This week, I’ve realized how difficult it must be for a homosexual to live under such a high magnification. I find he Health Inspection Report in Document 5 humorous, but it frightens me at the same time. The funny part is […]
Health Issue? Really Now…
Tags: Homosexuality, Peiss, public health, Repression, Respect
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Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Monday, February 6th, 2012
In the time periods explored by Foucault in Parts 1-3 of The History of Sexuality, what was constituted as socially acceptable sexual discourse was anything that would hit close to the bullseye, but not directly on it. It had become an art of verbal communication, and maybe even a gender competition about who could tickle the […]
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Tags: Adolescence, Ambiguity, Discourse, Foucault, Naivety, Respect, Subliminal, The History of Sexuality, Victorian Era
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