Posts Tagged ‘Sexuality’
A Girl’s Guide to Happiness (As Seen on TV)
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Hey everyone! Here’s my video and write up. I’ll miss our wonderful class!! Originally, I intended to create a visual representation of the deployment of sexuality described in Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1. I wanted to display the ways in which different discourses in the media have represented sexuality and influenced me […]
A Girl’s Guide to Happiness (As Seen on TV)
Tags: Foucault, Gender, Performativity, Sexuality
Posted in Uncategorized, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
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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American Epic
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
Despite being in the midst of reading articles about hermaphrodites, drag queens, and transsexuals and finishing the documentary, Southern Comfort, for another course, I think I’ll try to choose to not write about intersexuality and related topics for this week’s response for Middlesex simply because in the bulk of book one and two, Calliope/ Cal […]
American Epic
Tags: American Experience, incest, Middlesex, Narrative, Sexuality
Posted in May 1, Vita Xie | 1 Comment »
Sexuality and Modernity
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Since I go to Brooklyn College and intend (ha!) to graduate from Brooklyn College, I have to complete what is known as the “Core Curriculum,” a set of courses intended to give every undergrad a liberal arts and sciences education in a nutshell. One of these courses I am currently taking is “ The Shaping […]
Sexuality and Modernity
Tags: Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Identity, Sexuality, The History of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Vita Xie | 1 Comment »
Private, Public, and Some
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
After reading all the historical documents and essays, what struck me the most was that I never learned about or heard of the Postal Act/Comstock Act or Anthony Comstock in any American history class let alone anything about the Free Lovers and other prominent figures and ideologies in this particular historical moment. A quick skim […]
Private, Public, and Some
Tags: Censorship, Discourse, Law, Postal Act, Private, Public, Sexuality, Victorian Era
Posted in March 13, Vita Xie | 2 Comments »
Perversions and Murky Conclusions
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
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 […]
Perversions and Murky Conclusions
Tags: Female Friendship, Homosexuality, Identity, Peiss, Rosenberg, Sexuality
Posted in March 13, Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »
Overwhelming Deployment
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
At the end of our discussion last week, Professor Quinby prompted us to think about how Foucault’s notion of the deployment of sexuality shows up in our readings. I want to focus primarily on this weeks essays as I found them really interesting and a good springboard for discussion about the Scarlet Letter in class. […]
Overwhelming Deployment
Tags: Cott, Foucault, Juridico-Discursive, Religion, Sexuality, The Deployment of Sexuality, The Scarlet Letter, Victorian Era
Posted in March 6, Uncategorized, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
The “King” Rules in The Scarlet Letter
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality became much clearer after reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne’s tale is the perfect lens through which to view juridico-discursiveness in action. I also enjoyed the added richness of the Foucauldian lens because I was reading The Scarlet Letter for the second time. This time around it was […]
The “King” Rules in The Scarlet Letter
Tags: Foucault, Juridico-Discursive, Power-Relations, Religion, Sexuality, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in February 28, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Shifting into Focus
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
After taking some time to digest all of the Foucault that we’ve taken in over the past few weeks (I must admit I’m still working on a lot of it) I’m particularly interested in the final section: Right of Death and Power Over Life. I am most interested in the way that this section helps […]
Shifting into Focus
Tags: Foucault, Power, Sexuality, The History of Sexuality
Posted in February Postings, Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »
Weeks v. Foucault
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
I enjoyed the introduction of new material this week, and especially the way Jeffery Weeks’ “The Social Construction of Sexuality” went along nicely with Michel Foucault’s section, “The Deployment of Sexuality.” Whereas Foucault focuses on power constructing sexuality, Weeks goes at from a societal perspective. I found Weeks easier to understand most likely because he […]
Weeks v. Foucault
Tags: Foucault, Power, Repression, Sexuality, Weeks
Posted in February 14, Tal Shtulsaft | 1 Comment »