Search Results for incest

..., the locus ofthe virtuous family, was littered with tales ofincest.Theologians wrestled with the meaning of the incest prohibition.Reformers worried about the spread of incest, from urban tenements to the slave plantations of the South.In this essay, I argue that public and private, an effect, in the United...

... difference of Western modernity, namely, the Atlantic slave trade. Spillers thus replaces the mythic event of Oedipal incest with the historical event of kinship annihilation: in doing so, she also names race, rather than sex, as the foundational difference that structures modern identity. For Spillers, race...

... ofthe nineteenth century, and Brian Connolly reads antebellum discourses of incest to reveal the anxieties that attended the emergence of the liberal individual subject in the United States.In "Carnival Balls and Penal Codes;' JudithSurkisshows how the differential treatment ofmen and women in po­...

... suggest that adultery, homosexuality, fornication, and incest, are immune.from criminal enquiry, howeverprivatelyprac­ ticed. . . . The intimacy ofhusband and wife is necessarily an essential and accepted feature ofthe institution ofmarriage, an institution which the State must not only allow, but which...

... an intervention that attends to the conditions of precarity that still animate the present and future. This issue takes up that demand. Brian Connolly is associate professor ofhistory at the University ofSouth Florida. He is an editor ofHistory ofthe Present and author ofDomestic Intimacies: Incest...

... on those who trespass depending on the degree of the crime. For example, incest and the ensuing punishment are discussed in detail in article 48 of FN together with a number of fetwät committed before, within, and after marriage. Bestiality subjects one to an amputation of his genitals. Both men who...

... Will and Testament of Henry Clay .” University of Kentucky . kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7prr1pgv6h_219_3 . Connolly Brian . Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . Connolly Nathan . A World More...

... beingneither supported by the understanding not the heart, must be excited by variety" (183). 77.This passage, which Freud quotes at length in Totemand Taboo, forms the basis for Freud's theory of the "primal horde" out of which he derives the incest taboo. Freud will refer to this passage in texts written...

... that, while the population he studied was likely to disappear within three generations, this had nothing to do with the depredations oflabor recruitment, but rather came about primarily through lower birthrates caused by incest. 32 The governor of New Guinea indicated the limits on even such narrowly eugenic...

...) that come into conflict in the play of Antigone. Like the women I talk about, Antigone has a cursed memory of incest, ex­ ile, and betrayal.I contend that it is the memory of being perpetually stuck in-between the legal and the illegal that comes into conflict with "law" that producesAntigone and the women...

... of colonial association, with one crucial exception: the Minister of Economy, Ludwig Erhard. Erhard's criticism, however, was not only directed at the idea of colonial association but was also aimed at the EEC in general, a project he derided as nothing less than "economic nonsense" and"European incest:'32...