Manga, Media, Social Construction v. Essentialism?
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Manga, Media, Social Construction v. Essentialism? For me, our visit to the Museum of Sex drove home some of the ideas that Weeks’ touched upon in his discussion of the social construction of sexuality. Weeks states that sexuality is shaped and given meaning by society and that it in turn shapes each of us. Each […]
Manga, Media, Social Construction v. Essentialism?
Tags: celebrity, essentialism, family, gay, homosexuality, manga, media, museum of sex, perversion, sex tapes, sexting, social construction, social regulation, societies, socioeconomic
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Power, Pleasure, and Personage
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Power, Pleasure, and Personage In Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Chapter 2 of “The Repressive Hypothesis” has an interesting take on the dynamic between power and pleasure. Before this reading, if someone had asked me how the two aforementioned terms related to one another, my answer would have been fairly simple. The source of the pleasure […]
Power, Pleasure, and Personage
Tags: expectations, media, personage, pleasure, power, sexualized
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