Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition For my creative project, I chose to create a board game – Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition. Initially, my intent was to create a game that would test the knowledge our class gained over the course of the semester in a fun, nontraditional way. However, I […]
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Tags: deployment of sexuality, Dimmesdale, discourse, essentialism, Foucault, Hermaphrodites, Hester Prynne, homosexuality, Humbert, hysterization, incest, Jeffrey Weeks, power, power relations, scientia sexualis, sex, social construction, social constructivism
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Response to Middlesex Books 3 and 4, and Christine Jorgenson Documents
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
“Can transvestites be cured?” asked Time in an article reporting on Christine Jorgensen (Peiss, 375). If the article were about Cal, perhaps the question asked would be: Can hermaphrodites be cured? Within these questions lies the assumption that these things – these genders – need to be cured. “In some cases of transvestitism, as in […]
Response to Middlesex Books 3 and 4, and Christine Jorgenson Documents
Tags: acceptance, binary, essentialism, gender roles, happiness, Hermaphrodites, homosexuality, identity, Jeffrey Weeks, scientia sexualis, sexual orientation, social construction, social constructivism, transvestites
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More than Something Gone Wrong
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
More Than Something Gone Wrong: A Life Born of Fate Calliope Stephanides (of Middlesex) is much like Humbert (of Lolita) in his belief in fate. In both cases the narrators outline a series of events, down to small details, and highlight the fact that if any one of these things had happened differently their stories […]
More than Something Gone Wrong
Tags: Cal, fate, Hermaphrodites, Humbert
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Middlesex
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Preparing for Middlesex Hi All, Attached are two readings that relate to Middlesex and might deepen our understanding of the novel’s subject matter. One is an article from the site www.rhrealitycheck.org about how we deal with cases of intersex children. The other is the introduction by Michel Foucault to Herculine Barbin, the memoirs of a […]
Middlesex
Tags: Foucault, Herculine Barbin, Hermaphrodites, Intersex
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