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
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Beyond the law
Monday, February 27th, 2012
This week’s selections of readings played off each really well. From the historical excerpt of Massachusetts’s colony’s laws on sexual offenses, the overarching message is death is result of any sexual deviances away from heterosexual and martial sex in colonial America. However, that is not always the case (or even rarely the case) as evident […]
Beyond the law
Tags: Godbeer, Power, Power-Relations, The Scarlet Letter
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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
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