“Love is spiritual, only passion sexual”
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
“Love is spiritual, only passion sexual” In this week’s readings on the emotional intimacy between women in the 19th century, I was surprised at the intensity these bonds held, though it was understandable given the sexual segregation of the time. I think it was surprising to read about because it differs so strongly, in my […]
“Love is spiritual, only passion sexual”
Tags: 19th century, Childbirth, love, passion, women
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Double-Edged Sword of Womanhood
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Regarding the deployment of sexuality, Foucault discusses four strategies that, beginning in the 18th century, were used to distinguish the working relationship of knowledge and power of sex. The very first, the “hysterization of women’s bodies”, focuses on the woman and how mentally and physically she became a symbol of the scientia sexualis of the […]
Double-Edged Sword of Womanhood
Tags: Childbirth, deployment of alliance, deployment of sexuality, family, gender roles, hysterization, Jeffrey Weeks, Keeping Fit To Fight, power, scientia sexualis, women
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When Prudishness Is Costly
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Earlier this week on NPR’s Fresh Air host Terry Gross interviewed Randi Epstein about her book Get Me Out, chronicling the history of childbirth. Gross and Epstein discuss some of the reasons why so many women died before modern medicine.
When Prudishness Is Costly
Tags: Childbirth, Fresh Air, NPR
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