Because lord knows not a single American was gay before the 1960s...
From another of those blasted books:
A man on the frontier with a family needs a woman, and so, within a year, Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston, who had three children of her own.
This in a chapter supposedly about Abraham Lincoln's early years.
Grr.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Reinforcing the Dominant Paradigm, Special Sexism Edition
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How ironic. Since there's some evidence that Abe Lincoln might have been a little queer himself.
And a bit on the history of sexuality: no one was "gay" or "homosexual" before the 1860s. There weren't these types of word, in general, for folks; these types of words arose in the 1860s and later. Before then, as Foucault has noted, people talked about others in terms of acts, not identities; then sexuality was ascribed to the body and identity instead of to acts. And that leads us to our fucked up modernity.
That Foucalt seems like a smart dude. I should read his stuff...
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