Deconstructing “The Norm”
Monday, April 30th, 2012
So sorry for the late post!! Finals time is starting to take over! I am absolutely loving Middlesex. I think it’s amazing that Eugenides is able to take such a powerful taboo right from the very beginning and make us (well at least me) root for the characters involved. Lefty and Desdemona’s relationship has all […]
Deconstructing “The Norm”
Tags: Foucault, Identity, incest, Middlesex, Social Constructionist, taboos
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Gender and Sexuality
Monday, April 16th, 2012
In the very beginning of this course, I mentioned that a partial reason for taking this course was because I was taking a Gender and Society course and was interested in how it would couple and/ or digress with this course. There were instances of “ah-ha’s” and some nods of familiarity throughout this course in […]
Gender and Sexuality
Tags: Black Community, Complexity, Slave Relations, Social Constructionist, Sula
Posted in April 17, Vita Xie | 1 Comment »
Thoughts on the Custom-House
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Sorry for the late post! After reading through some of your posts, I was glad to see that my recognition of the presence of the juridico-discursive model was shared…hopefully this means applying Foucault to our readings won’t be as impossible as I had imagined. I was particularly interested in the Custom-House section of this reading. […]
Thoughts on the Custom-House
Tags: Essentialist, Foucault, Identity, Social Constructionist, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in February 28, Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »