My friend helped to put together this (FREE) performance, and it should be super cool. He’s been a little secretive about what it’s actually about, but I’m pretty sure sexuality will be a big theme. This Friday and Saturday. From the Facebook event page: March 15th & 16th at 8:00 pm Free Admission ‘I Sow, […]
In case you are feeling swamped by so much material from our readings thus far and having some trouble narrowing your essay focus, here are some steps to take that might help you arrive at a specific thesis statement. Fill out each step and see if it helps! Remember, you are not solving the riddles […]
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.
This reading challenges the stereotype of the Victorian era as a sexually monolithic period of repression and prudishness. Instead, the readings challenge the reader to explore the different sexual attitudes prevalent in the period, and how socio-cultural frameworks helped to shape those very attitudes.
As a reader of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter today, it is safe to say that many of us are shocked by the treatment of Hester Prynne at the hands of her Puritan society. We feel that we have grown as a society, and that as American citizens who value the separation between Church and […]
Hi everyone, Several previous posts made me think about a distinction that might interest all of you in one way or another, namely differences between prescriptive morality and ethics. This is a huge debate, of course, but for our purposes it might be useful to think of morality as a prescriptive code of behavior that […]
In cataloguing, quantifying, analyzing, and enacting measures of good health, good sex, and social progress— measures most often obtained through dedicated quarantine of cases where these conditions were deemed lacking—rulers channeled the nature of their power from ‘force’ and into ‘control’. They would witness the lives of their subjects from ever-more vantages, with their gaze dreaming a world where each human was demanded to be just that—erased of all traces of the animal, the nymph, the rebellious god, free to live in the prison of normalcy.
