CANS 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maria Monk, List Of Transcontinental Countries, Early Modern Europe

• School: McGill University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANS 301
• Professor: Elsbeth Heaman

Document Summary

Imperial/colonial state has fearful military and exemplary power; small administrative power. It is not democratic but it engaged with and responsive to public opinion" patrician elites, middling, popular classes. Urbanization, capitalism, colonialism are all transforming its powers and transforming sexual relations at the same time. Urbanization" new liberalizing sexual cultures; new laws against them. Capitalism: new market agency of the people; new coercions by authority. Stoler/foucault line of argument: that heteronormativity really takes off in the colonial setting. Behaviors are being (more or less) observed and written down. Highly repressive society "conquering" a more liberal society. Urgency of normative regulation to defend "normality" "civilization" Andrew jackson as reflecting convergence of perosnal warrants, state warrant, violence. How do we read the relationship between rape as a phenomenon of war and rate as an internal problem of social order/disorder. To what extent is rape about power and patriarchy.