Professor Lee Quinby – Spring 2012

Posts Tagged: Social Constructionist


Posts Tagged ‘Social Constructionist’

Deconstructing “The Norm”

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 […]

Gender and Sexuality

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 […]

Thoughts on the Custom-House

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. […]