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Tag Archives: First-Year Seminar
Class Acceptance in Harlem
Harlem was known as Manhattan’s most prominent black neighborhood in the early 1900’s. The gay community in Harlem exhibited a different culture from the gay cultures of other neighborhoods in New York City, such as Greenwich Village. In Harlem, homosexuality … Continue reading
Born This Way?
When looking at theories of sexuality, Ellis and Symonds define the characteristics of the male and female invert before delving into the topic of whether inversion can be cured. They claim that congenital inversion has no cure, while inversion that … Continue reading
Posted in Week 10: Gender or Sexuality?
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Three, Four, or More Genders? It’s Only Natural
For centuries, and even still today (for some), Christians have viewed gender as a rigid structure, capable of accommodating two, unchangeable genders, and their accompanying roles. Any deviance from this model was often seen as ‘unnatural’ or ‘going against God’s … Continue reading
Posted in Week 10: Gender or Sexuality?
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The Internal Conflict of John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds was a widely-read writer who lived from 1840 to 1893. He was highly educated at Harrow School and studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford. Symonds, while a wealthy and successful upstanding man on the outside, differed on … Continue reading
Not Merely a “Figure of Speech”
Benjamin Jowett, a professor of Greek at Oxford in the 19th century, proudly proclaimed a “historicist approach to the ancient world,” saying that “an objective and ethically detached stance” was necessary for the production of truthful research (Orells 2015, 110). … Continue reading
The Rise of the New Women
In Faderman’s reading, she details the creation and rise of New Women. Throughout the chapter she describes the New Women in the late nineteenth century as educated, middle class, white women who chose to be unmarried and work. There were … Continue reading
Could Murder be Committed by Hocus-Pocus?
That essentially sums up the predominant male view of female homosexuality and eroticism in the early 19th century. How, you ask? Going back to the year 1811, Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie, two mistresses of a girls boarding … Continue reading
Female Transvestism and the Utilization of Class Privilege
In the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, those who had lesbian sex were not especially persecuted. However, women who both engaged in lesbian sex and rejected all other aspects of their roles as females suffered from persecution, namely those from lower … Continue reading
Bad Fetishes Make Bad Leaders
Suetonius was a second century C.E. historian who wrote biographies about the first twelve Roman emperors (Hubbard, 2003). As part of this he described the worst of the sexual habits of Emperors Caesar, Tiberius, and Nero. Romans harshly judged men … Continue reading
Posted in Week 6: From Ancient to Renaissance Italy
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Tibullus vs Theognis
This week’s readings brought up Tibullus’ love poems which have a lot of similarities and differences with Theognis’ verses, that ultimately show how same sex desires were portrayed in Rome and Greece. Some of the similarities that can be seen … Continue reading
Posted in Week 6: From Ancient to Renaissance Italy
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