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[Introduction To] Bodies And Pleasures: Foucault And The Politics Of Sexual Normalization, Ladelle Mcwhorter
[Introduction To] Bodies And Pleasures: Foucault And The Politics Of Sexual Normalization, Ladelle Mcwhorter
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Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual …
Absolute Margaret: Margaret More Roper And "Well Learned" Men, Peter Iver Kaufman
Absolute Margaret: Margaret More Roper And "Well Learned" Men, Peter Iver Kaufman
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This article suggests that Margaret More Roper's 1534 letter to Alice Alington is an important witness to Tudor ideas of patriarchy and the history of gender identity. In 1557 William Ras tell was the first of many to question not only Margaret's authorship of the letter, but also her acquiescence to authorities and opposition to her father. Evidence suggests, however, that Margaret was a part of Erasmus's humanist network of friendship, remained so after More's refusal to swear the oath and his imprisonment, and that her appeals to her father were genuine. By the time Margaret and More debated conformity, …