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Blog Eight Assignment

We began our discussion of sexuality this week. We focused on four, interrelated readings by Koedt, Dworkin, MacKinnon, and Rich. Take two essays of your own choosing and demonstrate how they either challenge or support one another. For example, you may want to look at how MacKinnon’s argument that our consciousness around sex cannot be changed is challenged by Rich’s argument for the acknowledgement of a lesbian continuum- another system of desire, affiliation, and pleasure that is not heterosexual or patriarchal in nature.

If you are not so interested in talking about sexuality but want to instead focus on the Kessler text (the piece left-over from our week on the body), you can write a blog that considers how the way the medical establishment “treats� intersexed infants also produces knowledges about what a normal body is. Either way, make sure you write 250-300 words.