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 One and Two
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
“I think love breaks all taboos. Don’t you?” (67)
Response to Middlesex Books One and Two
Tags: Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Humbert, incest, liberation, love
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Brother/Sister, Husband/Wife
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
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 […]
Brother/Sister, Husband/Wife
Tags: birth defects, eugenics, hereditary sexualities, incest, perversions
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Incest, Middlesex, and Intersex
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Incest, Middlesex, and Intersex Having only read the first two books of Middlesex, I feel this post must be about incest, a topic that Eugenides handles with incredible grace and tenderness.
Incest, Middlesex, and Intersex
Tags: childhood, family, gender roles, identity, incest, Intersex, love, social construction
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Power and Coercion in “Lolita”
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Power and Coercion in Lolita Part 2 of Lolita was heavy on the power relations, particularly between HH and Lo. Throughout their cross-country travels and stay at Beardsley, HH is impossibly controlling. To keep her as subdued as he can, Humbert uses the adult-child power dynamic to threaten Lo and holds money and other material […]
Power and Coercion in “Lolita”
Tags: class, coercion, dirty old men, incest, morals, power relations, sex
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Are Vampires Incestuous?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Are Vampires Incestuous? The lecture on vampires and sexuality brought up some interesting questions about kinship and family systems in the vampire world. I’ve watched and read a lot of different stuff pertaining to vampires. And after vampires are “made” or “sired,” they sometimes refer to their lineage in family terms such as “mother” or […]
Are Vampires Incestuous?
Tags: biology, blood, family, incest, kinship, lineage, perversions, sex, vampires
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