While the Christian right has been making a case against Planned Parenthood, a healthcare provider, on the basis of its “affront to ‘Christian values,” some see room to defend the organization on religious grounds. Mara Willard, “Can There Be a Religious Response to Planned Parenthood’s Critics,” looks at the way this defense is being made. [...]
Tag archives for sexuality
Rhetoric at Work: the long history of Minnesota’s Marriage Amendment Defeat
A well-made, in-depth story on everything that went into defeating Minnesota’s Marriage Amendment. Although the word “rhetoric” never comes up, anyone doing rhetoric will quickly recognize the forces behind the successful campaign. “Eighteen Months to History: How the Minnesota Marriage Amendment Was Defeated–money, passion, allies” (via Minnesota Public Radio)
category: Things Rhetorical
The Myth of the Latin Woman Becomes Her
I taught Judith Ortiz Cofer‘s “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” this term, and my students and I discussed various ways in which the myth of the Latin woman, as it is replete with associations to sensuality and food, becomes material in culture. It seems that the details [...]
category: Things Critical
Pilgrims’s (near)Progress
White people love to talk about politics around the dinner table, which might explain the continuing popularity of the Thanksgiving holiday. More than any other day or time on the American calendar or schedule (which are typically governed by all manner of rules and directives about “polite company” and social taboos), Thanksgiving is the day when white [...]
category: Things Critical
I swear I’m straight…except for the gay sex part
New York state is the latest–and largest–state to recognize the right of gays and lesbians to marry. By all means, this is good news as everyone who wishes to marry should be allowed to, and in every state in the U.S. However, the manner by which proponents of gay marriage have gone about gaining greater [...]
category: Things Critical, Things Rhetorical
On the Relationship Between Homophobia, Heteronormativity, Queerness, and U.S. Exceptionalism
Terrorist Assmeblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Puar, Jasbir K. Duke University Press Books: 2007
category: Things General