Oh Fabio
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
“This book was one of the best books I have read in a long time. It had the things I like in a romance, a dashing knight, a beautiful princess, and of course the bad guy. This book is for all those who love it when the hero has to fight for his lady.” – […]
Oh Fabio
Tags: biopower, Capitalism, Fabio, Romance, sex
Posted in Creative Projects, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
GenderBenders
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
It is a testament to the crude fascination of scientia sexualis that with such a novel case of gender identity, everyone was busy trying to collect and examine the physical details of Christine Jorgensen’s life. This is epitomized in Document 3’s text from a Time’s article:“The New York Post put the facts on the […]
GenderBenders
Tags: Gender Identity, Middlesex, transsexuals
Posted in May 7, Rachel Kisty | 3 Comments »
Greek Love & Hermaphroditus
Monday, April 29th, 2013
Middlesex hinges on questions about sexual identity, but the narrator’s cultural background informs this as well as most aspects of the novel. The juxtaposition between Greek and American culture comes with a juxtaposition of sexual histories and sexual views. The events leading up to Cal’s conception are essentially like the two “colliding” (a word […]
Greek Love & Hermaphroditus
Tags: Eros, Greece, Hermaphroditus, Middlesex, Plato
Posted in April 30, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
Nobody Puts Cohn in a Corner
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
In Act 2 Scene 9, Roy Cohn makes an interesting observation about the power of labels. When his doctor tries to get him to openly admit to being homosexual he refuses adamantly and responds, “Like all labels they tell you one thing and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the […]
Nobody Puts Cohn in a Corner
Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, Identity, Roy Cohn
Posted in April 23, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
Shameless Sex
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Something about the way African American women write about sexuality is unparalleled. There is a kind of an easy and beautiful continuum between pain and passion, that is expressed in a raw and unashamed way, that speaks to a culture that developed from very different roots in this country. Maybe it stems from what Brenda […]
Shameless Sex
Tags: Shame, Sula
Posted in April 16, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
Those 50’s Psychiatrists (Ch11 Peiss -Spring Break)
Monday, April 15th, 2013
In this crazy ‘50s age of scientia sexualis, where the dichotomy of the “abnormal” and “normal” sex was being both solidified and challenged (and where fear of the “abnormal” was overwhelming the mainstream), it was important for psychiatrists to advance new theories. Some of them were quack-ish in their alarmist nature, like Ch. 11’s doc […]
Those 50’s Psychiatrists (Ch11 Peiss -Spring Break)
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Laaahlita
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
I wish I knew more about where this poster was distributed, or who paid for it. But regardless the message is pretty clear. Who knows, it was probably built into Sue Lyon’s contract that these posters had to be distributed!
Laaahlita
Tags: Lolita, Lolita Film, Nabokov, Sue Lyon
Posted in April 9, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
Lolita Part 1
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Defining the sexuality of children has long been a part of civilized society. Foucault’s idea of the strategy “pedagogization of children’s sexuality” is that it is founded on the belief that children are highly sexually beings, that need to be constantly monitored an controlled or they will explore and use their bodies in unacceptable ways. […]
Lolita Part 1
Tags: Bio-Power, Lolita; Pedophilia
Posted in March 19, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
MoSex 3/12/13
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
I appreciated the frankness of everything. It was interesting, and kind of fun, to look at pornographic images in a public space, with people all around contemplating, giggling, and saying funny things. I’d like to stand next to those rubber bodies that you’re allowed to touch for an entire day and watch how each visitor […]
MoSex 3/12/13
Tags: Age, Animal Sexuality, Internet, MoSex, Museum of Sex, porn, Youth
Posted in March 12, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
Censorship vs. Social Purity
Monday, March 4th, 2013
I was also intrigued by Comstock, whose interpretation of “obscene” lead to bans on things like books – and the obscenity scale ranged from pornographic language and pictures to anything judged to be influential towards immorality (another term with a lot of scope), however indirect.
Censorship vs. Social Purity
Tags: Censorship, Comstock, Ida Craddock, Scientia-Sexualis, Social Purists
Posted in March 5, Rachel Kisty, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »