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Diane Price Herndl (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993),
p. 897.
9. Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History
of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 1995), p. 11.
10. “Eventually the entire social body was provided with a ‘sexual body,’
although this was accomplished in different ways and using different tools. . . . It
is at this point that one notes the introduction of a new differentiating element.
Somewhat similar to the way in which, at the end of the eighteenth
century, the bourgeoisie set its own body and its precious sexuality against the
valorous blood of the nobles, at the end of the nineteenth century it sought
to redefine the specific character of its sexuality relative to that of others,
subjecting it to a thorough differential review, and tracing a dividing line that
would set apart and protect its body. ...The theory of repression would
compensate for this general spread of the deployment of sexuality by its
analysis of the differential interplay of taboos according to the social classes.”
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, vol. 1, trans. Robert
Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1978), pp. 127–128.
11. Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society (London: Sage, 1998), p. 61.
12. Charles Murray, “Prole Models,” Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2001,
p. A18.
13. I would like to thank my student, Devorah Stern, from Queens
College of the City University of New York, for bringing this article to my
attention.
14. “Lynne Cheney, not usually known as a feminist, singled out Eminem
as a ‘violent misogynist’ at a Senate committee hearing on violence and entertainment.
Eminem’s lyrics, she argued, pose a danger to children, ‘the intelligent
fish swimming in a deep ocean,’ where the media are ‘waves that penetrate
through the water and through our children . . . again and again from this
direction and that.’ Pretty sick stuff. Maybe it comes from listening to Marshall
Mathers, but maybe it’s the real Lynne Cheney, of lesbian pulp-fiction fame,
finally standing up.” Richard Kim, “Eminiem—Bad Rap?” March 5, 2001,
retrieved from http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010305&s=kim).
15. The Nation describes her thus: “The right-wing warrior who used
her post at the NEH to fight the Republican culture wars of the eighties; the
ideologue who, after continuing to serve as head of the NEH through the
Bush years, resigned following Clinton’s election and moved to the American
Enterprise Institute to write Op-Ed hit pieces, and later co-hosted the nowdefunct
CNN show Crossfire Sunday—she was the one ‘on the right.’ ...At
the NEH, Cheney . . . perfected a method of attack that depends more on
hyperbole than accuracy. One of her first campaigns was aimed at a PBS series,
The Africans, that she called ‘propaganda’ because it described Africa’s historic