Professor Bendavides’ talk on vampires and sexuality verbalized and intellectualized all those things that swim under the surface of seemingly mindless entertainment. The vampire is used to talk about otherwise unbreachable topics in the pop culture medium. The idea of linking fear and desire is very interesting, and can be applied as a psychological concept […]
Womanhood as Duty (though not to be written about as such or otherwise by women, but only by Hawthorne). ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne is notorious for complaining in a letter to one of his publishers that a “damn’d mob of scribbling women” was stealing his audience. Elsewhere, he referred to women authors as “ink-stained Amazons” who were […]
Consent and Cautionary Tales Puritan colonial discourse liberally interchanges sodomy, unclean lusty acts, and rape. The concept of consent in sexual interaction appears vague and not at all relevant except in the final clause of Massachusetts Colony’s Laws on Sexual Offenses, where the offender may possibly punished with death for “ravishing” a woman by force. […]
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 […]
This Huff article on re-examining Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has been severely redacted in the last couple of days. However, the point is still there. Obama and many others support the immediate re-examination of the policy. However, many officials do not want to be associated with either side of the decision before elections. So, the […]
Michel Foucault proposes in the opening parts of his History of Sexuality that there is a direct correlation between the repression of sexuality and increased discourse on sexuality, including, ironically enough, discourse on the repression of sexuality. This idea is represented in social, political, and scientific terms. It seems likely that, as long as organic, […]
