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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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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Sula’s Sex Powers
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Sula’s Sex Powers I thought that the pedagogization of sex that was present throughout the novel was an interesting contrast to the Stevenson essay in which women equated sex with principle. As a previous poster stated, Sula learned her sexual behaviors from her mother, Hannah. Hannah was described as sleeping with men easily and often. […]
Sula’s Sex Powers
Tags: influence, pedagogization, pleasure, power, sex, Sula
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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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