Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11 Cott’s essay on Victorian sexual ideologies clarified some of the themes and terms presented by The Scarlet Letter. As we discussed in last week’s class, adultery was only committed if the woman involved in the sexual activity […]
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11
Tags: adultery, affliction, consequences, evil, fall, Hester Prynne, madness, morality, nymphomania, religion, Victorian, virtue
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Jaslee Carayol, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 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
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, Mila Matveeva | Comments Off on Behind the Veil of Social Construction
