Power in “The Scarlett Letter”
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Power in The Scarlett Letter Godbeer’s essay, “Sodomy in Colonial New England” posed an interesting history about the definition of sodomy and the power relations within that definition. Previous coursework of mine (more specifically, American Legal Systems) established that sodomy was non-reproductive sex. This definition was present in the Godbeer essay as part of the […]
Power in “The Scarlett Letter”
Tags: Hester Prynne, hierarchy, influence, nonreproductive, power, power relations, sexual act, sodomy
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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
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