• • Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me? • •
• • Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher • •
• • Foucault claimed the homosexual was invented in 1870 • •
• • Chase Dimock wrote: As an example of Bio-Power, in The History of Sexuality, Foucault famously claims that the homosexual was invented in 1870. This does not mean that there were not male-male and female-female relationships before this year, but that this was an era in which sexologists and doctors conceptualized same sex desire as the product of a distinct anatomy and biology.
• • Chase Dimock wrote: The homosexual was conceived of as a distinctly different species that possessed, as Foucault termed it, a “hermaphrodism of the soul.”
• • Chase Dimock wrote: The homosexual was born among studies of other social misfits and undesirables such as the prostitute, the criminal, and the “lower races” in which the medical gaze was deployed through forensics, and pseudo sciences like phrenology to prove that these individuals were truly, biologically inferior beings. We can see that medical science in the 19th century sought to vindicate social prejudices by finding biological proof of their judgment on the body.
• • Is there a biological origin for homosexuality? • • . . .
• • His article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: As It Ought to Be
• • Chase Dimock, who teaches Literature and Composition at College of the Canyons, is Managing Editor of As It Ought to Be.
• • On Sunday, 17 September 1933 • •
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Scribe Harvey Fierstein is said to be working an HBO biopic on Mae West. Mae-mavens doubt this will ever happen. However, the Estate lawyer assured me (a few days ago) it is still "alive and in development."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “The wages of sin are sables and a film contract.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • “Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch Did Not Gel” • •
• • When they were making the film "100 Rifles," Raquel Welch "said things to me that weren't particularly nice". They had to work together again on "Fuzz" in 1972 but refused to be on set at the same time. Reynolds would say his lines to her double and, when he got in the car to leave, she would come in and say her lines to his double.
• • "If you see the movie," Reynolds reveals, "it's never us together.”
• • This was nothing new in Hollywood. Reynolds recalls Mae West telling him that she and W.C. Fields did their motion picture “My Little Chickadee” together without speaking off-camera. "He was kind of an asshole," Mae West told Burt. . . .
• • Source: Item in “Burt Reynolds: But Enough About Me” (by Burt Reynolds and Jon Winokur); published by Blink in November 2015
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not
long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4044th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.
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