ENGL 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Methylphenidate
15 Dec 2016
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Women were seen as colder and wetter individuals / men were seen as dryer and hotter individuals. The vagina, at one point in time, was considered to be an inverted penis. Stories were constructed therefore to explain gender ambiguous individuals. Gender ambiguous person was running in a field, jumped over a brook and then *bam* she now has a penis - too much exercise has caused the penis to extrude. Reason and unreason are all connected - by-products of each other and must both exist at the same time to legitimize the existence of its counterpart. For light to shine so brightly, darkness must be present) We see the march of classification, division, specialization of the mad and criminally insane. Prisoners and the insane were and are separated and nowadays every crime and level of insanity or mental illness is classified and leads a person to a certain severity of treatment or imprisonment respectively.
