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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
My notion of the Victorian lifestyle has been shattered. Gone are the images of couples cold to one another in bed, and a society as tight as the petticoats the women wore. Replace it with sexually charged men and women who were not abashed to share their feelings with one another, and radical thinkers espousing […]
This weeks reading was really fascinating and the topics discussed in Peiss’ book sparked a lot of thought for me. In particular two things really struck me, both from chapter 6. First I was interested in Document 5 because it reminded me of our discussion last week about the notion of science and Scienta Sexualis […]
