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Author: Neal H. Walls
Publisher: American Society of Overseas Research
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation After a general discussion of methods and approaches, Walls explores the construction of desire in the Gilgamesh Epic; a Freudian analysis of Horus and Seth; and sex, power, and violence in Nergal and Ereshkigal. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Carlos Domínguez-Morano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-16
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1793605777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Myth of Desire: Sexuality, Love, and the Self, Carlos Domínguez-Morano draws on psychoanalysis to explore the broad and complex reality of the affective-sexual realm encompassed by the term desire, a concept that propels individual aspirations, pursuits, and life endeavors. Domínguez-Morano takes a global perspective in order to introduce a methodology, examine the present sociocultural determinations affecting desire, review the main stages in the evolution of desire, and reflect on affective maturity. Domínguez-Morano further explores the five basic expressions of desire: falling in love and being a couple, homosexuality, narcissism and self-esteem, friendship, and the derivative of desire by way of sublimation. Scholars of psychology, philosophy, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Author: Marion Roach
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-11
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1596918942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roots of Desire is a witty and entertaining investigation into the power, myth and meaning of red hair. Redheads have been worshiped, idealized, fetishized, feared, and condemned, leaving their mark on us and our culture. Such is the power of what is actually a genetic mutation, and in The Roots of Desire, Marion Roach takes a fascinating look at the science behind hair color and the roles redheads have played over time. A redhead herself, Roach brings candor and brilliant insight to the complicated and revealing history of redheads, making this a stand-out narrative and an essential tool in understanding the mechanics and phenomenon of red hair. A must-have for every redhead.
Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published: 2021-11-07
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 3986774955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCupid and Psyche Apuleius - Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century AD by Apuleius. It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (Soul or Breath of Life) and Cupid (Desire), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage.
Author: Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-08-09
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1442691093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects of literary studies. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire in order to challenge this premise, placing literature at the centre of recent feminist debates over the ontology and politics of sexual difference. Citing examples of textual resistance to analytical feminist thought, Rajeshwari S. Vallury argues that literature is expressive of desires that are not always configured in terms of oppression or the denial of difference. In other words, a particular politics of reading obscures the multiplicity of desire that literature is capable of affirming and risks sacrificing the possibilities of both literature and desire. Through a re-evaluation of the sexual politics practiced by nineteenth-century male writers such as Balzac, Gautier, and Maupassant, Vallury moves towards a reconfiguration of the relationship between aesthetics and politics. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire calls into question dominant feminist approaches to the literary representation of gender. Enlisting the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Vallury calls for a different method of reading, one based on a deeper understanding of the politics of literature.
Author: Bruce S Thornton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 042998040X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw eros as a powerful force of nature, potentially dangerous and in need of control by society: Eros the Destroyer, not Cupid the Insipid, is what fired the Greek imagination. The destructiveness of eros can be seen in Greek imagery and metaphor, and in their attitudes toward women and homosexuals. Images of love as fire, disease, storms, insanity, and violence—top 40 song clichés for us—locate eros among the unpredictable and deadly forces of nature. The beautiful Aphrodite embodies the alluring danger of sex, and femmes fatales like Pandora and Helen represent the risky charms of female sexuality. And homosexuality typifies for the Greeks the frightening power of an indiscriminate appetite that threatens the stability of culture itself. In Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Seualily, Bruce Thornton offers a uniquely sweeping and comprehensive account of ancient sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. In its conclusions the book challenges the distortions of much recent scholarship on Greek sexuality. And throughout it links the wary attitudes of the Greeks to our present-day concerns about love, sex, and family. What we see, finally, are the origins of some of our own views as well as a vision of sexuality that is perhaps more honest and mature than our own dangerous illusions.
Author: Lisa M. Diamond
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780674026247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs love “blind” when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: “I fall in love with the person, not the gender,” say some respondents.Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding of women’s sexuality—and of the central importance of love.
Author: David P. Barash
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-05
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780805071368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApplying new research to sex in the animal world, the authors dispel the notion that monogamy comes naturally. As "The Myth of Monogamy" reveals, biologists have discovered that for nearly every species, cheating is the rule--for both sexes.
Author: Rachel Hills
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1451685807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one which influences all of us—woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies the Sex Myth—the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex, and now means we are defective if we don’t do it enough. Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.
Author: Steve Schoby
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-09-20
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1796060372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat could it be to come into existence at the exact instant of the big bang? The very beginning of the universe, a conscious energy formed out of the beginnings of energy. A witness to the birth of stars, the formation of solar systems, black wholes; a traveler over the fabric of the universe, sliding along landing on a comet, a meteor colliding into another then another until crashing down onto a new evolving planet. A planet just far enough away from its sun to allow water to flow, not too cold not too hot. A planet tilted to one side by a collision of two worlds both traveling along the same orbiting path, one large the other a third its side. Its many cast away broken pieces slowly join together forming a moon that now circle this now larger planet. Thousands of small objects strike this new planet bringing water, then oceans so vast there is little to no land. In time volcanoes erupt platelets push against each other, mountains rise, land becomes larger. Something unseen yet not uncommon happens, first a plant, a bug, a tree, life swimming in the water. A young growing planet, a child in early development, there is no language for a traveler to learn nor does it know of what a language is? Time will teach this as life evolves it shall learn how each life speaks how each life thinks. Does a dinosaur think, talk, plan, a fish just swim, a new form of flying species, bugs, do they feel pain? The early beginnings of life on an infant world, evolved into existence, from the remnants of a long ago exploding super nova. A living world filled with new life, life not un-seen by this traveler, different only due to its place, water abundant throughout this universe. Here in this youthful planet, life will become known by this traveler. How life speaks, life bonds with its own and others not of its kind becoming something new yet not so new. Those near it will learn the truth of who they are, not by force or by choice.
