Archive for the ‘Foucault: History of Sexuality’ Category
Unreliability, Psychology, Liberty
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Unreliability, Psychology, Liberty Well we certainly get our fill of the unreliable narrator in Part 2 of Lolita. First, H.H. can’t remember his and Lolita’s travel itinerary (which contrast suspiciously with his seemingly photographic memory earlier). On their second cross-country trip there is the question of weather or not someone is following H.H. and Lolita, […]
Unreliability, Psychology, Liberty
Tags: Freud, liberation, repressive hypothesis, truth
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The Confessor’s Dilemma
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
While reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita my first instinct was to identify Foucault’s four strategic unities. A simple task, as it turned out, for this beautifully written text couldn’t have set up the four unities more clearly: the hysterical woman (Charlotte), the masturbating child (Dolly), the Malthusian couple (Humbert & Charlotte), and the perverse adult (Humbert […]
The Confessor’s Dilemma
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Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study Reading the introduction to Lolita invoked a strong sense of déjà vu, which I realized came from the uncanny similarities between it and “The Custom House”. Both introductions serve to set up the stories as “true” (or in terms of The Scarlet Letter, based on a true story). More […]
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Tags: confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, hysterization, scientia sexualis, truth
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Kaitlyn O'Hagan, Nabokov: Lolita | 1 Comment »
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
In the 1892 case of Alice Mitchell in Chapter 6 of Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, the author talks about “urnings”, which are individuals who are only stimulated people of the same sex, i.e. “unnatural sexual practices” (Peiss, 199). There is a parallel between sexual desire of two females and theses “unnatural […]
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Tags: Alice Mitchell, Carroll Smith-Resenberg, hysterization, scientia sexualis, women
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Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi (I wrote this on Saturday night, but couldn’t post it due to a lack of internet access) I’m writing this blog post from Rye, New York, home to Lunacon – a science fiction/fantasy convention that I’ve attended almost every year since I was an infant. With Professor Benavides’ talk on Vampires […]
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Tags: fantasy, lunacon, porn, science fiction, sexuality, vampires, women
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Liminal Labels
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
I had a professor in my freshman year who loved the idea of “liminal spaces” – spots that are on both sides of something; they are neither here nor there. She loved to tell us, “It’s OK not knowing.” She loved the parts of life that were not black, that were not white, that were […]
Liminal Labels
Tags: liminal, scientia sexualis
Posted in D. G., Foucault: History of Sexuality, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 1 Comment »
The Never-Ending Confession
Monday, March 8th, 2010
The Never-Ending Confession The Scarlet Letter, a novel so imbued with the themes of sin, guilt, and confession, has an interesting confessional: the scaffold. Hester is taken to the scaffold early in the narrative and a confession is demanded of her, but she refuses that with silence. Her silence is in itself a powerful act, […]
The Never-Ending Confession
Tags: confession, Hester Prynne, passionless, Puritan, scaffold, sin
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Joseph Papa, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Behind the Veil of Social Construction
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
As the sources I scour about sexuality increase, so does my understanding of the broad problems surrounding the history of sex. However, as my increased understanding, or rather, exponentially growing interest and grasps at the general ideas, grows, more questions seem to arise, the answers to them become seemingly more and more out of reach. […]
Behind the Veil of Social Construction
Tags: bestiality, perversion, power, Puritans, religion, social construction, sodomy
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Identity and Sexuality in the Anglo-American Colonies
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Identity and Sexuality in the Anglo-American Colonies In this week’s Peiss readings we get some concrete facts and history to support what Foucault had mentioned in The History of Sexuality – the fact that sexual abnormality was often tolerated by villagers/townspeople during the Puritan era, even though legal codes created by the religious and political […]
Identity and Sexuality in the Anglo-American Colonies
Tags: desire, identity, patriarchal, Puritans, sexual regulation
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Super-Cultural Constructs
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Here is the compiled slideshow for my amateur photoshoot at the the Museum of Sex. Super-Cultural Constructs The first class discussion on Foucault left me reeling, because I could not understand how I had missed or completely misinterpreted some of his most emphasized points. Granted, reading on a crowded train doesn’t help, but neither does […]
Super-Cultural Constructs
Tags: discourse, essentialism and queer theory, identity, image, museum of sex, propriety, queer culture, technology
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