Archive for the ‘Peter Panousopoulos’ Category
Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Monday, May 7th, 2012
The Christina Jorgensen case is a tragic example of how the media could either make or break you. It also reiterates the notion that when it comes to touchy subjects in America, there’s no such thing as an acceptable gray area (Abortion, for or against; Politics, red or blue and sometimes green). As for the […]
Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Tags: Ambiguity, Discourse, hermaphrodite, Identity, Media, Sexuality
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Calliope/Cal: A Trustworthy Narrator, Thanks to Eugenides
Monday, April 30th, 2012
I really, really enjoy Calliope/Cal’s tone in Middlesex. Give the credit given to author Jeffrey Eugenides, Calliope/Cal has the ability to help the reader capture the full emotional value of images, actions and sequences without the excessive reliance of adjectives. I was beyond moved reading the passage when Dr. Philobosian was walking through his home […]
Calliope/Cal: A Trustworthy Narrator, Thanks to Eugenides
Tags: Calliope/Cal, Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Middlesex, Narrative, syntax
Posted in May 1, Peter Panousopoulos | No Comments »
Health Issue? Really Now…
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Hooray for disrupted internet connections! Each week, I enjoy Peiss’ book a little more. This week, I’ve realized how difficult it must be for a homosexual to live under such a high magnification. I find he Health Inspection Report in Document 5 humorous, but it frightens me at the same time. The funny part is […]
Health Issue? Really Now…
Tags: Homosexuality, Peiss, public health, Repression, Respect
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LOVE
Monday, April 16th, 2012
The fact that slavery existed in America still baffles me. The most inhumane social structure was prevalent in a country where the ideals of freedom and pursuit of happiness was, and still is, the marketing strategy for potential immigrants. It’s the greatest example of irony in the history of the world. This is the face I […]
LOVE
Tags: flawed society, love, Peiss, slavery, stevenson
Posted in April 17, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »
Coitus.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Though I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I wasn’t very shocked by the direction Nabokov steered his novel plot-wise. The foreshadowing of Clare Quilty’s increased significance was present dating back to Dolores’ poster of him when she was still a nymphet. In the foreword, we already know that Humbert is in some sort of legal […]
Coitus.
Tags: coitus, Homosexuality, Humbert, kinsey, Lolita, Obsession
Posted in April 3, Peter Panousopoulos | No Comments »
Humbert is pleasantly entertaining =S
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
We’re able to paint a clear picture of the world’s sexual history with what we’ve seen in the Museum of Sex and read in Peiss this past week. I’ll get to Humbert later on. I spent a lot of time in the first room of the museum reading about the gradually increasing push in the […]
Humbert is pleasantly entertaining =S
Tags: Guilty pleasure, Helplessness, Heterosexuality, Humbert, Lolita, Museum of Sex, Natural, Obsession, Twentieth Century
Posted in March 27, Peter Panousopoulos, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
A few points we mentioned today may be reiterated. Back to my reference about Abraham Lincoln. During the Victorian Era, the actions and syntax of male companionship had much higher thresholds in order to cross into homosexual territory. This ideology even draws comparisons with the homoerotic relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. […]
Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Tags: Female Friendship, Haywood, Homoeroticism, Homosexuality, Peiss, Same-sex Relationships, Smith-Rosenberg, Vernacular, Victorian Era, Walt Whitman
Posted in March 13, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »
19th Century Scientists May Have Needed A Kick In The…
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Surprise! Ok, on to the post… Would the members of the Boston Female Moral Reformers perceive Hester Prynne as the victim of a licentious man? Maybe, maybe not. These members, however, would look upon Hester with disgust, because she protected the man that caused her to bear the burden of the scarlet letter. Members of […]
19th Century Scientists May Have Needed A Kick In The…
Tags: Licentious, Onanism, Promiscuous Intercourse, Scarlet Letter, Scientists
Posted in March 6, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Monday, February 6th, 2012
In the time periods explored by Foucault in Parts 1-3 of The History of Sexuality, what was constituted as socially acceptable sexual discourse was anything that would hit close to the bullseye, but not directly on it. It had become an art of verbal communication, and maybe even a gender competition about who could tickle the […]
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Tags: Adolescence, Ambiguity, Discourse, Foucault, Naivety, Respect, Subliminal, The History of Sexuality, Victorian Era
Posted in February 7, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »