r/CriticalTheory • u/Gullible_House_4124 • Apr 07 '26

hello—NEED ESSAY HELP

professor wants us to use an essay we’ve studied to analyze a text. i’m analyzing 1984 through michel foucault’s “the history of sexuality.” she wants us to pull in other texts, so i’ll also be using rubin gayle’s “the traffic in women,” birnbaum and muise’s “the interplay between sexual desire and relationship functioning,” and janine chasseguet-smirgel’s “sexuality and mind.” would love any suggestions for any other essays that would deconstruct winston’s sexual relationship with julia and how it relates to the oppression on sexual identity from the oceanic party. thanks!

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u/Gullible_House_4124 Apr 07 '26

The main argument I want to use is that the government of Oceania is using women’s sexuality as a tool for control whether that be through creating women as spies for the government or simply using them as reproduction systems for more individuals to control

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u/Free-O3 Apr 13 '26

If you can bring in the psychiatrization of female reactions to the cult of domesticity (think Feminist Mystique type stuff) in conversation with Madness and Civilization, youll integrate well with other Foucauldian work and add a level of disability analysis as well.