Brother/Sister, Husband/Wife The story that I’ve found most compelling about the first half of Middlesex is that of the narrator’s grandparents, Lefty and Desdemona. The tale of how their incestuous relationship arose is easily sympathized, their actions rendered justifiable by the circumstances from which they arose. After all, they were two siblings, orphaned while they […]
Power and Problematic Sexualities Foucault finally started to make sense to me with The Deployment of Sexuality. Maybe it’s because Part 4 is much more linear, but I am just relieved to feel a little less lost. In his “Method” section, Foucault effectively dispels the rest of the ideas I had about power in relation […]
The third of Foucault “strategic unities” (103) for knowledge and power over and about sex is “a socialization of procreative behavior” (104) for partners in relationships. The socialization is, in essence, all the factors “brought to bear on the fertility of couples” (104-105). This is a discussion worth bringing into the present, and into present […]
