Posts Tagged ‘social constructivism’
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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 […]
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Tags: deployment of sexuality, Dimmesdale, discourse, essentialism, Foucault, Hermaphrodites, Hester Prynne, homosexuality, Humbert, hysterization, incest, Jeffrey Weeks, power, power relations, scientia sexualis, sex, social construction, social constructivism
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Response to Middlesex Books 3 and 4, and Christine Jorgenson Documents
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
“Can transvestites be cured?” asked Time in an article reporting on Christine Jorgensen (Peiss, 375). If the article were about Cal, perhaps the question asked would be: Can hermaphrodites be cured? Within these questions lies the assumption that these things – these genders – need to be cured. “In some cases of transvestitism, as in […]
Response to Middlesex Books 3 and 4, and Christine Jorgenson Documents
Tags: acceptance, binary, essentialism, gender roles, happiness, Hermaphrodites, homosexuality, identity, Jeffrey Weeks, scientia sexualis, sexual orientation, social construction, social constructivism, transvestites
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Gendrification
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
One time, a professor told us about a series of ten confirmed genders that lie on a spectrum between “male” and “female.” This is per the scarce liberal arms of the scientia sexualis establishment. In the years since I acquired this information, I have hazily wondered why there are only restrooms designated for two genders. […]
Gendrification
Tags: family, gender roles, identity, scientia sexualis, social constructivism
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…it’s…it’s an it!
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Middlesex has got to be the best book to end our semester. Not only was it actually written fairly recently (to my great surprise; the author’s style made me think the book was written in the ’80s), but the book touches on so many topics we discussed: The pros and cons of scientia sexualis; constructs […]
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…it’s…it’s an it!
Tags: femininity, gender roles, scientia sexualis, social constructivism
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Or You Can Just Blame Your Mother…
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Or You Can Just Blame Your Mother… The Alfred Kinsey and US Senate reading this week seem the paramount example of scientia sexualis; numbers, facts, and (false) theories predominate in both pieces. But what interested me the most was the “blame game.” According to Kinsey, “disapproval of heterosexual coitus…before marriage is often an important factor […]
Or You Can Just Blame Your Mother…
Tags: essentialism, free choice, homosexuality, Jeffrey Weeks, scientia sexualis, social constructivism
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Blood+Race=Vampire Fun!
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
The speech was fun, informative — entertaining, too, because of all those film clips. It’s about time I become properly addicted to a TV show, and I think that show will be True Blood. I’m off to get a Netflix account. But before I lose myself in the joys of out-of-the-coffin vampires, a few of […]
Blood+Race=Vampire Fun!
Tags: race, social constructivism, vampires
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Intellectual or Moral (But Never Both)
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Intellectual or Moral (But Never Both) William Alcott’s suggestions for young women to avoid nymphomania seemed to emphasize cooling – not surprising, since both sexual desire or passion and the Devil are associated with heat and fire. But he also quoted a writer who said “the reading of lascivious and impassioned works, viewing voluptuous painting, […]
Intellectual or Moral (But Never Both)
Tags: morality, nymphomania, social constructivism
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Kaitlyn O'Hagan, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 1 Comment »
Essentialism vs. Social Constructionism
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Essentialism vs. Social Constructivism (This picture isn’t mine, credit and rights belong to Green Eyed Grin. Just stumbled upon this.)
Essentialism vs. Social Constructionism
Tags: essentialism, social constructivism
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Truth and Sexuality
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Truth and Sexuality The central question of Weeks and Norton’s essays is: Is sexuality socially constructed? (This is similar to a topic we were discussing in class last week, the social construction of the “inner self”). “Essentialism” was used to describe the idea that Norton supported, that there is a “transhistorical core of desire” as […]
Truth and Sexuality
Tags: essentialism, homosexuality, scientia sexualis, sexual orientation, social constructivism, truth
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Brilliant Title Here — Weeks & Norton
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The two essays we read for this week from Kathy Peiss’s book, by Weeks and Norton respectively, seem to be a case of social constructivism versus essentialism. Weeks argues that sexuality – not the less ambiguous word “sex” – is not something natural, a biological function to be examined by scientists (as Foucault’s scientia sexualis, […]
Brilliant Title Here — Weeks & Norton
Tags: discourse, essentialism, social constructivism
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