Shame in the Animal Kingdom
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
16-5-2019
End Date
16-5-2019
Abstract
This paper will consist of a basic historical, political, and religious analysis of homosexuality and will be applied to the major obstacle that is encountered by the majority of the LGBTQ+ community: shame and repression. Michael Foucault’s work, The History of Sexuality and his notions on historical sexual repression will be combined and analyzed alongside Michael Warren’s notions on shame in, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queerness. These two works will be used to argue how the LGBTQ+ community has become liberated after harsh exposure of different stages(and types) of shame. Ultimately, sexuality has been treated as invisible for quite some time, and thus sexuality had to become known and shamed to uplift repression; when comparing to visible repressed groups, such as people of color and women who were repressed and shamed from the beginning. Moreover, due to failed long-term results, out-dated arguments, and research to change an unchangeable human quality, sexuality is starting to become accepted and self-evident as natural and reversed the shame onto the repressors themselves.
Recommended Citation
Torres, Dionicio, "Shame in the Animal Kingdom" (2019). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 188.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2019/Oralpres/188
Department/Program
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Slides for SOURCE 2019 presentation Torres
Shame in the Animal Kingdom
Ellensburg
This paper will consist of a basic historical, political, and religious analysis of homosexuality and will be applied to the major obstacle that is encountered by the majority of the LGBTQ+ community: shame and repression. Michael Foucault’s work, The History of Sexuality and his notions on historical sexual repression will be combined and analyzed alongside Michael Warren’s notions on shame in, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queerness. These two works will be used to argue how the LGBTQ+ community has become liberated after harsh exposure of different stages(and types) of shame. Ultimately, sexuality has been treated as invisible for quite some time, and thus sexuality had to become known and shamed to uplift repression; when comparing to visible repressed groups, such as people of color and women who were repressed and shamed from the beginning. Moreover, due to failed long-term results, out-dated arguments, and research to change an unchangeable human quality, sexuality is starting to become accepted and self-evident as natural and reversed the shame onto the repressors themselves.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2019/Oralpres/188
Faculty Mentor(s)
Michael Goeger