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Pederasty Plus…

Pederasty Plus…. Sexuality, Ethnicity, Masculinity. Agenda. Adventures in Critical Thinking What Does Halperin Say? Recap and Update Definitions, Theories, Practices Pederasty Concepts and Terms Choose Your Lenses Butler or Foucault?. Adventures in Critical Thinking.

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Pederasty Plus…

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  1. Pederasty Plus… Sexuality, Ethnicity, Masculinity

  2. Agenda • Adventures in Critical Thinking • What Does Halperin Say? • Recap and Update • Definitions, Theories, Practices • Pederasty • Concepts and Terms • Choose Your Lenses • Butler or Foucault? Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  3. Adventures in Critical Thinking What Does Halperin Say?

  4. What Does Halperin Say? • constructionism v. essentialism • essentialism is… • sexuality is inherent in biological structure • essentialists: sexuality is unchanging • constructionism is sexual categories as… • environmentally conditioned • social-cultural environment • not constantly changing Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  5. The “Debate” Essentialism Constructionsim Sexual categories as Variably focused Culturally-historically situated Socially conditioned Subjectively significant • Sexual categories as • Preference-focused • Culturally-historically constant • Biologically determined • Cognitively significant David Halperin. “‘Homosexuality’: A Cultural Construct (An Exchange with Richard Schneider).” In One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990). Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  6. Recap and Update Definitions, Theories, Practices

  7. Definitions: What is…? gender (OED on…) 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 • physical sex that a person identifies with • subjectivity v social perception • sex v gender • sex = biological category • gender = social roles/associations Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  8. Butler / Foucault (compare/contrast) Butler Foucault Gender/sex performance art Normativity navigated by “free” actors… • Performed gender/sexuality • Normativity challenged • by deviance… Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  9. Foucault Part 1: “Moral Problematization” Aphrodisia (sexual pleasure) Use (chrēsis) criteria Moderation v. excess enkrateiav. akrateia sophrosunēv. akolasia Role criteria, timeliness (kairos) • Natural • Need-fulfilling • Excess-vulnerable Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  10. “Sexual-Social Isomorphism” aka “asymmetry hypothesis”

  11. Pederasty Concepts and Terms

  12. affect eros eunoia philia kharis actors erastes eromenos paidika kalos k’agathos kinaidos euruproktos katapugon values sophrosune v. akolasia enkrateia v. akrasia andreia v. malakia Vocabulary of Pederasty… Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  13. ho pais kalos,“the boy is attractive” Rooster gift(Attic RF)

  14. Choose Your Lenses Butler or Foucault?

  15. Athenian Wine Jug circa 460 BCE Greek: “I am Eurymedon” Scythian: “I am bent over”

  16. Ps-Demosthenes: Erotic Essay Basic info Analysis Prologue (“erotic part”) Praise Instruction • Mid 300s (?) Athens • Anonymous • Rhetorical show piece

  17. 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) Ancient Sexuality and Gender

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