Double-Edged Sword of Womanhood
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Regarding the deployment of sexuality, Foucault discusses four strategies that, beginning in the 18th century, were used to distinguish the working relationship of knowledge and power of sex. The very first, the “hysterization of women’s bodies”, focuses on the woman and how mentally and physically she became a symbol of the scientia sexualis of the […]
Double-Edged Sword of Womanhood
Tags: Childbirth, deployment of alliance, deployment of sexuality, family, gender roles, hysterization, Jeffrey Weeks, Keeping Fit To Fight, power, scientia sexualis, women
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Our Sexual Hierarchy
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
“Keep away from whores and all loose women. KEEP AWAY FROM WHORES!” said a pamphlet given out to soldiers during World War I. This pamphlet was ancillary to a pro-kit that was also distributed in order to prevent further outbreaks of venereal diseases. It contained a tube of ointment, a cloth with soap, a cleansing […]
Our Sexual Hierarchy
Tags: Chamberlain-Kahn Act, family, Jeffrey Weeks, Keeping Fit To Fight, language, museum of sex, perversions, sexual hierarchy, sexual regulation, venereal disease
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