HIST 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michel Foucault, Sodomy, Iran National Football Team
Document Summary
Inherently euro-centric: western europe is modern bc it"s industrialized. Argues that something happened in western europe in the mid-19th century. Shift from acts to selves in terms of desire. Separate acts vs. internal desire: when we look at same-sex desire in the past, we don"t see what we see today. You don"t have to be gay to have sex with the same sex, and you don"t have to have sex with the same sex to be gay. This shift happened in different places at different times, not just in europe in the mid-19th century. Gender categories that don"t line up with western ideas of gender. Country in which social, political, and legal structures are influenced by islam. Adult men were expected to sleep with adult women and also amrads. Tried to hold iran together and protect them from europe. Britain invades during wwi and takes over part of iran. In 1921, they topple the dynasty and it"s destroyed by 1925.
