Transfer Queen

Transfer Queen

Author: A. W. Strouse

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1947447637

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"A.W. Strouse's entrancing epigrams combine tough-minded bawdiness and neoclassical beauty. In his deft hands, acute sociological analysis arrives via subway voyeurism. Take this fearless book on your next ride. Notice how Strouse's lines and Patty Barth's lucid drawings sharpen your yearnings and make them newly available for blame-free inspection." Wayne Koestenbaum "Literarily incorrect." John Waters, on why he didn't want to review this book. Cruising the New York City subway, the Transfer Queen is on the prowl! These voyeuristic figure drawings-both poetic and visual-sketch the men of Gotham's transportation system. A.W. Strouse and Patty Barth spy on strangers with a special kind of anonymous intimacy. Transfer Queen is ideal reading material for kinky commuters. But remember: "A crowded subway car is no excuse for unlawful sexual conduct!"


Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

Author: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1317072871

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Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation, among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries, theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women to consider ‘queens consort’ as a category, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and political history.