The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Essentialist and social constructionist discourses on sexuality lose their coherence precisely inasmuch as they seek to debate what one should be allowed to do with her body, while seeking to thoroughly circumvent the erotic. This amounts to a misapprehension […]
Gender Studies
Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 2 (Kieryn Wurts)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Social constructionist theory developed as an answer to essentialist theories of sexuality and sought to demonstrate the variety and complexity of approaches to sex, reproduction, love gender, and marriage have been throughout human history. Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality series […]
Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 1 (Kieryn Wurts)
The following is the first of a three-part series. John Boswell in Historical, Social, and Political Context John Boswell (1947-94) was a Yale philologist who published two major studies betweeen 1980 and 1994 which, considered together, constitute an extended and significant study in the history of so-called “Eurochristian” sexuality.[1] Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980) […]