Invasions of Privacy: The Body in the Novel part 2

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Invasions of Privacy The Body in the Novel
(part 2)

• Peter Brooks
• Presented by Joseph Hall Michelle dePozsgay
• Edited By Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart

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Jean-Jacques RousseausPrivate Bodies

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Body Signage

• Rousseaus body had been signed by the spanking
  this signage is designated as the erotic
  signifier
• the branding of his body by the erotic
  signifier determined his sexual orientation
• Rousseau becomes timid, silent and does not
  express his wants to the persons he loved the
  most
• To be at the knees of an imperial mistress, to
  obey her orders, to ask her forgiveness, were for
  me sweet pleasures, and the more my lovely
  imagination inflamed my blood, the more I had the
  look of a lover transfixed. (17)

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Class Discussion Questions

• Why do you think that Rousseau was so enchanted
  by fantasies of a woman exerting dominance over
  him?
• Moreover, what do you think triggered Rousseaus
  timid behavior to those that he loved the most?

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Class Discussion.again

• What do you think induces streakers to perform
  such hideous acts of nudity at sporting events?
• Do you think that this expression is telling a
  story?

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The Body as an Inscription

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• Do you agree that the body or a part of it,
  becomes a place for messages that are transmitted
  through scenarios of desire?

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Privacy, the Law, and the Body

• Modern sense of the body and its private
  meanings has its proximate origins in the
  Enlightenment (49)
• The abortion debate..
• The right of privacy..broad enough to encompass
  a womans decision whether or not to terminate
  her pregnancy (Roe vs. Wade, 410 US, at 153)

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Works Cited

• Peter Brooks. Body Work. Invasions of Privacy.
  Harvard University Press, 1993.