Posts Tagged: incest

Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition For my creative project, I chose to create a board game – Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition. Initially, my intent was to create a game that would test the knowledge our class gained over the course of the semester in a fun, nontraditional way. However, I […]

“I think love breaks all taboos. Don’t you?” (67)

Brother/Sister, Husband/Wife The story that I’ve found most compelling about the first half of Middlesex is that of the narrator’s grandparents, Lefty and Desdemona.  The tale of how their incestuous relationship arose is easily sympathized, their actions rendered justifiable by the circumstances from which they arose.  After all, they were two siblings, orphaned while they […]

Incest, Middlesex, and Intersex Having only read the first two books of Middlesex, I feel this post must be about incest, a topic that Eugenides handles with incredible grace and tenderness. 

Power and Coercion in Lolita Part 2 of Lolita was heavy on the power relations, particularly between HH and Lo.  Throughout their cross-country travels and stay at Beardsley, HH is impossibly controlling.  To keep her as subdued as he can, Humbert uses the adult-child power dynamic to threaten Lo and holds money and other material […]

Are Vampires Incestuous? The lecture on vampires and sexuality brought up some interesting questions about kinship and family systems in the vampire world.  I’ve watched and read a lot of different stuff pertaining to vampires.  And after vampires are “made” or “sired,” they sometimes refer to their lineage in family terms such as “mother” or […]