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Tag Archives: Gender
Peaceable Kingdoms
Carol Adams discusses her book, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Crossroads/Continuum Press). Joseph Gerson talks about his book, The Sun Never Sets: Confronting the Network of Foreign U. S. Military Bases (South End Press).
Powerful Language
Dennis Baron discusses language, gender, and ethnicity. Noam Chomsky discusses linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the ideological dimensions of language.
Engendered States
Anna Clark discusses the sexual politics of London during the early 19th-century. Sarah Hanley discusses family formation and state building in early modern France.
Changing Political Bodies
Thomas Laqueur discusses changing notions of a different body politic, as set forth in his book, Making Sex (Harvard University Press, 1990). Thomas Pavel discusses the political collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe.
Gender, Bombs, and Justice
Jane Flax and Carol Cohn appear on Soundings courtesy of the Duke University Women’s Studies Program. Carol Cohn discusses gender, language, and nuclear strategy. Jane Flax discusses gender, and social justice in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Tyranny of Sex
According to Kerrigan, men have trouble getting love and desire to mate in their souls. Drawing from insights from English Renaissance literature, William Kerrigan warns against self-congratulating modernity and argues for an integrated vision of woman.
Esteem Enlivened by Desire
Are there love and friendship after marriage? Or, in the words of Jean Hagstrum, Is there an ideal of marital frienship in Western culture? Those questions are central to several recent conferences at the NHC which Jean Hagstrum helped to coordinate. Professor Hagstrum’s most recent books are Sex and Sensibility: Ideal and Erotic Love from Milton to Mozart (the University of Chicago Press, 1980), and Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake (the University of Tennessee Press, 1986).
Afro-American Literature and 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, bell hooks also stresses the importance of the ties that bind the study of literature to the practical concerns of everyday life.
According to Kwasi Wiredu, African philosophy is best understood in the light of several overarching philosophical tensions, including those among the spiritual and the material, the mystical and the empirical, the natural and the supernatural. The focus of Wiredu’s work is his native tribe of the Akans, which comprises two-thirds of Ghana’s population of 14 million people.
Discourses of Desire
In excerpts from two conversations, Soundings explores love, gender, sexuality, and literature from classical antiquity into the modern world.
Love Among the Ruins Part 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 does the study of classical antiquity increase contemporary understanding of sexuality?
Love Among the Ruins Part 1
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 what is their importance in our understanding of contemporary sexuality?