Tag Archives: Gender
Cultural Margins
Jonathan Dollimore discusses his study of Sexuality, Transgression, and Sub-cultures, a project he worked on during a recent fellowship year at the National Humanities Center. 484 – Cultural Margins
Scandal and Boredom
Sarah Maza discusses the diamond necklace affair, an episode that illuminates the role of gender and sexuality in French revolutionary culture. Patricia Meyer Spacks discusses boredom as a cultural phenomenon. 473 – Scandal and Boredom
Posted in Episodes, Maza, Sarah C., Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Tagged French, Gender
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Politics in Transition
Lynn Hunt discusses sexuality, gender, and the French Revolution. Larry Eugene Jones discusses the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power between 1928 and 1934. 454 – Politics in Transition
Posted in Episodes, Hunt, Lynn A., Jones, Larry Eugene
Tagged French, Gender, German, Politics
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Religion Then, Love Now
William Gass, Indira Peterson, and Glenn Yocum all participated in recent conferences at the National Humanities Center, respectively entitled Theoretical Perspectives on Love, Friendship, Marriage, Sexuality, Men, and Women and Exemplary Religious Lives: Hagiography and ‘Sainthood’ in South Indian Religions. … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gass, William H., Peterson, Indira V., Yocum, Glenn E.
Tagged Gender, Humanities, Religion
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The Tyranny of Sex
According to William Kerrigan, “men have trouble getting love and desire to mate in their souls.” Drawing insights from English Renaissance literature, he warns against self-congratulating modernity and argues for an integrated vision of woman. Kerrigan comments on men’s dual … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Kerrigan, William
Tagged English literature, Feminism, Gender, Male sexuality
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Esteem Enlivened by Desire
Are there love and friendship after marriage? Or, in the words of Jean Hagstrum, Is there an ideal of marital friendship in Western culture? Those questions are central to several 1987 conferences at the National Humanities Center which Hagstrum helped … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hagstrum, Jean H.
Tagged Gender, Literature, Marriage, Word derivations
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(1) Afro-American Literature; (2) African Philosophy
bell hooks is the author of Ain’t I a Woman and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, in which she argues that the struggle to end racism and the struggle to end sexism are naturally intertwined. In both works, hooks … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, hooks, bell, Wiredu, Kwasi
Tagged Akan tribe, Feminism, Gender, Philosophy, Racism
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Discourses of Desire
Excerpts from two conversations explore love, gender, sexuality, and literature from classical antiquity into the modern world. Linda Kauffman discusses her book Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions. The second segment [14:50] features Robert Hanning, a participant in a … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hanning, Robert W., Kauffman, Linda S.
Tagged Gender, Literature
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Love Among the Ruins, Part 2 of 2
Was there an ideology of sex in classical Athens? In what ways would it differ from our own? With respect to marriage, the status of women, childrearing, and family, how did the Greeks differentiate between nature and culture? Finally, how … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hagstrum, Jean H., Zeitlin, Froma I.
Tagged Gender, Sex (Psychology), Sex customs --Greece --History, Sex role --Greece --History.
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Love Among the Ruins, Part 1 of 2
Love, marriage, sexuality, and gender–in the ancient Greek world, how are these concepts identifiable? In what ways are these notions in classical Greece related to issues such as pleasure, marriage, friendship, and sexual stereotypes? How have these concepts evolved, and … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Halperin, David M., Winkler, John J.
Tagged ancient greece, Gender, Sex (Psychology), Sex customs --Greece --History, Sex role --Greece --History.
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