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Author: Rudi Bleys
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the Western conceptualizations of non-western patterns of same-sex desire and the evolution of European attitudes to homosexuality, this research particularly examines how the construction of "sodomite" identity was intertwined with essentialist definitions of so-called "racial" identity.
Author: Rudi Bleys
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1996-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0814712657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender behavior and hermaphroditism; and the semiotics of genitalia. The author also demonstrates that representation of cultural "otherness," as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely related to modern constructions of homosexual identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Rudi Bleys
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780304333783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research explores the Western conceptualizations of non-western patterns of same-sex desire and relates these to the evolution of European attitudes to homosexuality. It contributes to the historiography of western constructions of cultural and sexual "otherness" and aims at unravelling in particular how the construction of modern "sodomite," later "homosexual" identity was intertwined with essentialist definitions of so-called "racial" identity.
Author: David A. Gerstner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 0415306515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia introduces both scholars and general readers to the cultural, political, scientific, juridical, and historical practices of international queer culture.
Author: Pete Sigal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0226757048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? More specifically, what did indigenous and Iberian groups think of men who had sexual relations with other men? Providing comprehensive analyses of how male homosexualities were represented in areas under Portuguese and Spanish control, Infamous Desire is the first book-length attempt to answer such questions. In a study that will be indispensable for anyone studying sexuality and gender in colonial Latin America, an esteemed group of contributors view sodomy through the lens of desire and power, relating male homosexual behavior to broader gender systems that defined masculinity and femininity.
Author: Chantal J. Zabus
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1847010822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHomosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire from early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa in the nineteenth century to the present. Covering a broad geographical spectrum, from Mali to South Africa and from Senegal to Kenya, and adopting a comparative approach encompassing two colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages, 'Out in Africa' charts developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through the work of 7 colonial and some 25 postcolonial writers.
Author: Margaret Markwick
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780754663898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together established critics and exciting new voices, this collection offers readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. Drawing on work from economics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal studies, and politics, the contributors make a convincing case for Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations of Victorian culture that currently predominate.
Author: Joshua Gunn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-09-04
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 022671344X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, innovative book, Political Perversion, rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues that this “mean-spirited turn” in American politics (of which Trump is the paragon) is best understood as a structural perversion in our common culture, on a continuum with infantile and “gotcha” forms of entertainment meant to engender provocation and sadistic enjoyment. Drawing on insights from critical theory, media ecology, and psychoanalysis, Gunn argues that perverse rhetorics dominate not only the political sphere but also our daily interactions with others, in person and online. From sexting to campaign rhetoric, Gunn advances a new way to interpret our contemporary political context that explains why so many of us have difficulty deciphering the appeal of aberrant public figures. In this book, Trump is only the tip of a sinister, rapidly growing iceberg, one to which we ourselves unwittingly contribute on a daily basis.
Author: Diane Mason
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1847797083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American practitioners and demonstrates the influence and impact of these writings, not only on Victorian pornography but also in the creation of fictional characters by canonical authors such as Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The book also features the first detailed and balanced study of the largely overlooked literature on masturbation as it pertains to women in clinical and popular medical works aimed at the female reader. Mason concludes with a consideration of the way the distinctly Victorian discourse on masturbation has persisted into the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries with particular reference to Willy Russell’s tragic-comic novel, The Wrong Boy (2000) and to the construction of ‘Victorian Dad’, a character featured in the adult comic, Viz.
Author: Alex Belsey
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2020-01-24
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1789624479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPost-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. Image of a Man provides a comprehensive critical reading of his extraordinary journal, uncovering the attitudes and arguments that shaped and reshaped Vaughan's identity as a man and as an artist.
