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Pederasty Plus…
Sexuality, Ethnicity, MasculinitySlide2
Agenda
Adventures in Critical
Thinking
What Does Halperin Say?Recap and UpdateDefinitions, Theories, PracticesPederastyConcepts and TermsChoose Your LensesButler or Foucault?
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Adventures in Critical Thinking
What Does Halperin Say?Slide4
What Does Halperin Say?
constructionism v. essentialism
essentialism is…
sexuality is inherent in biological structureessentialists: sexuality is unchangingconstructionism is sexual categories as…environmentally conditionedsocial-cultural environmentnot constantly changing
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The “Debate”
Essentialism
Sexual categories as
Preference-focusedCulturally-historically constantBiologically determinedCognitively significant
Constructionsim
Sexual categories asVariably focusedCulturally-historically situated
Socially conditioned
Subjectively significant
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David Halperin. “‘
Homosexuality’: A Cultural Construct (An Exchange with Richard Schneider
).” In
One
Hundred Years of
Homosexuality
(1990).Slide6
Recap and Update
Definitions, Theories, PracticesSlide7
Definitions: What is…?
gender
(OED on…)
physical sex that a person identifies withsubjectivity v social perceptionsex v gendersex = biological categorygender = social roles/associations
sexuality
(OED on…)
preference in ones taste for their desires
the essence of acknowledgement of oneself as possessing sexual desires
left out preference
definition based on acts
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“Psychol
. and
Sociol
. (orig. U.S.). The state of being male or female as expressed by social or cultural distinctions and differences, rather than biological ones; the collective attributes or traits associated with a particular sex, or determined as a result of one's sex. Also: a (male or female) group characterized in this way.” (
OED 3.b.)
OED on GenderSlide9
“Sexual
nature, instinct, or feelings; the possession or expression of these
.”
(2.)“A person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which he or she is typically attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual; sexual orientation
.” (5.)
OED
on SexualitySlide10
Butler / Foucault (compare/contrast)
Butler
Performed gender/sexuality
Normativity challengedby deviance…Foucault
Gender/sex performance artNormativity
navigatedby “free” actors…
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Foucault Part 1: “
Moral Problematization”
Aphrodisia
(sexual pleasure)NaturalNeed-fulfillingExcess-vulnerableUse (chrēsis
) criteriaModeration v. excess
enkrateia v. akrateia
sophrosunē
v.
akolasia
Role criteria, timeliness (
kairos
)
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“Sexual-Social Isomorphism”
male
~
female
masculine
~
feminine
penetrator
~
penetrated
active
~
passive
dominant
~
submissive
senior (in status)
~
junior (in status)
moderate (
sōphrōn
)
~
immoderate (
akolastos
)
free
~
slave
aka “asymmetry hypothesis”Slide13
Pederasty
Concepts and TermsSlide14
Vocabulary of Pederasty…
affect
eros
eunoiaphiliakharis
actors
erasteseromenos
paidika
kalos k’agathos
kinaidos
euruproktos
katapugon
values
sophrosune
v.
akolasia
enkrateia
v.
akrasia
andreia
v.
malakia
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Rooster gift
(Attic RF)
ho pais kalos
,
“the boy is attractive”Slide16
Choose Your Lenses
Butler or Foucault
?Slide17
Greek: “I am Eurymedon”
Scythian: “I am bent over”
Athenian Wine Jug circa 460 BCESlide18
Ps-Demosthenes: Erotic Essay
Basic info
Mid 300s (?) Athens
AnonymousRhetorical show pieceAnalysis
Prologue (“erotic part”)PraiseInstructionSlide19
Quotes (choose your lenses)
“[Because] most
erotic compositions attach shame
… to those about whom they are written, [I have] taken precautions” (1)“… it it is of the utmost importance for young men … to possess beauty in respect of person, self-discipline in respect of soul, … manliness in respect of both, and … charm in respect of speech.” (2)
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