Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:24:02 -0700
From: csekouri-AT-deepcove.com (chloe sekouri)
Subject: _History of Sexuality_ Vol. 1-3 & Racism


So-- anybody want to talk about  what can be said of reprentations of "race"
in sexually explicit materials (i.e. "pornography", "erotica", whatever you
want to call it) in light of Foucault's insights in the introduction ("We
Other Victorians") of  _The History of Sexuality, Vol I_? I'm thinking here
not just of porn, but also  20th century eugenics tracts, the Scottsboro
trial ( a trial in which several African-American men were accused of raping
(1 or 2, I'm not sure) white women, and  the mainstream American film _The
Bodyguard_. I realize that this is a *huge* question, but maybe that's a
good thing. Someone want to narrow it down? Suggest related topics? Etc etc?
What about a genreal discusssion of the absence of "race" (whatever that is)
in the writings of Foucault and other French (read: former colonial power)
theorists? Someone? Anyone? 

Yours in hope tinged with desperation,

chloe

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"The women who hate me cut me
 as men can't              Men don't count.
I can handle men. Never expected better
 of any man    anyway.
                                  But the women,
shallow-cheeked young girls the world was made for
safe little girls who think nothing of bravado
who never got over by playing it tough"   Dorothy Allison

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