Within the Bounds of the Hetrosexual Imagination
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Within the Bounds of the Heterosexual Imagination I thought that Serlin’s essay Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War Closet drew some interesting parallels with Middlesex. Interestingly, the essay makes the assertion that Jorgensen was rejected by the general public after it was discovered that she was not a physical “hermaphrodite” who made the choice between […]
Within the Bounds of the Hetrosexual Imagination
Tags: gender, hermaphrodite, heterosexual, homosexual, sex
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Museum of Sex, NYC
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
The museum managed to create a traceable history of our modern attitudes towards sex. I especially liked how all of the exhibits (and items in the gift shop) were presented in an open and informative manner.
Museum of Sex, NYC
Tags: art, condoms, education, gender, identity, museum, porn, race, scientia sexualis, syphilis, violence
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