Posts Tagged ‘women’
Gayness in public, Judaism as identity, and insanity in women
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Tony Kushner’s two-part play Angels in America is heavy on sexuality, disease, politics, professional discrimination, religion, race, and gender. The two themes that stick out most to me are sexuality and gender. The portrayal of the Jewish identity as ethnicity versus religion is very realistic for the modern day, and it is not a treatment […]
Gayness in public, Judaism as identity, and insanity in women
Tags: HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, hysterization, identity, perversion, power, women
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A Woman’s Power Even in the Worst of Times
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Though absolutely devastating and often hard to swallow, the position of enslaved African American women described by Brenda E. Stevenson in “Slave Marriage and Family Relations” evoked the kinds of power that we had read about earlier (Nancy Cott). Women had little say in determining the path of romance in their lives and would often […]
A Woman’s Power Even in the Worst of Times
Tags: Brenda E. Stevenson, Hegel, Nancy F. Cott, power relations, women
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Thoughts on Sula
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Thoughts on Sula In her essay, Stevenson presents a very clear, though complex, depiction of slave sexual and marital relations; sex was generally encouraged only between married couples and pre-marital pregnancy led to marriage, and, in terms of monogamous relationships, fidelity was highly valued. Most important in her analysis is her assertion that “[Slave kin] […]
Thoughts on Sula
Tags: morality, respect, sexual regulation, slaves, social construction, women
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Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness This week, while reading Nabokov’s masterpiece, I was also traveling around the National Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. My absorption of the narrative was contextualized by the event — Japanese trees in bloom, tourists and GW students of all ages, races, intellects, couplings, and persuasions.
Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness
Tags: education, power, women
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Public and Private, In Writing
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Public and Private, In Writing Walt Whitman’s romantic poems are most usually written to romanticize nature and the heavenly practices of growing grass. This excerpt from “Calamus” however is a an escape into nature for some much needed sensual privacy. Whitman comes here not to reflect on the seclusion of nature, but on the necessarily […]
Public and Private, In Writing
Tags: homosexuality, perversion, women
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
In the 1892 case of Alice Mitchell in Chapter 6 of Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, the author talks about “urnings”, which are individuals who are only stimulated people of the same sex, i.e. “unnatural sexual practices” (Peiss, 199). There is a parallel between sexual desire of two females and theses “unnatural […]
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Tags: Alice Mitchell, Carroll Smith-Resenberg, hysterization, scientia sexualis, women
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Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi (I wrote this on Saturday night, but couldn’t post it due to a lack of internet access) I’m writing this blog post from Rye, New York, home to Lunacon – a science fiction/fantasy convention that I’ve attended almost every year since I was an infant. With Professor Benavides’ talk on Vampires […]
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Tags: fantasy, lunacon, porn, science fiction, sexuality, vampires, women
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“Love is spiritual, only passion sexual”
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
“Love is spiritual, only passion sexual” In this week’s readings on the emotional intimacy between women in the 19th century, I was surprised at the intensity these bonds held, though it was understandable given the sexual segregation of the time. I think it was surprising to read about because it differs so strongly, in my […]
“Love is spiritual, only passion sexual”
Tags: 19th century, Childbirth, love, passion, women
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Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness I found this week’s readings on the intimacies of 19th century female relationships to be very interesting. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg’s essay provided a very well-rounded look at the dynamics between women and how their close relationships were formed within societies. It makes sense that sexual-segregation would influence women to become […]
Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness
Tags: 19th century, birth control, passionlessness, sexual segregation, sexuality, Victorians, women
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Kathryn Bigelow’s Big Win
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Last night Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director. As you may know, the film industry is essentially a Boys Club and if you didn’t know, well, I’m afraid it is. Though this is certainly a great achievement, a ‘milestone’, not only for women, but the industry […]
Kathryn Bigelow’s Big Win
Tags: film industry, Kathryn Bigelow, scientia sexualis, Virginia Woolf, women
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