Posts Tagged: Resistance

After this past class, in which we discussed Victorian Hawthorne writing about Puritans, I noticed new layers in The Scarlet Letter. In regards to the documents in Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, the deployment of sexuality, and power-relations, were evident. Hawthorne’s Victorian influence is seen in “Another View of Hester.” He speculates, […]

“Where there is power there is resistance” (Foucault 95). After reviewing my notes from our previous class, and doing Internet research on my own to clarify terms we discussed in class, I would like to discuss this quote. I will address what it means in terms of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, as well […]