Power and Problematic Sexualities
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Power and Problematic Sexualities Foucault finally started to make sense to me with The Deployment of Sexuality. Maybe it’s because Part 4 is much more linear, but I am just relieved to feel a little less lost. In his “Method” section, Foucault effectively dispels the rest of the ideas I had about power in relation […]
Power and Problematic Sexualities
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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?
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