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| Author | : Tim Edwards |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134858442 |
Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism). In doing so it covers a wide range of issues of concern to gay and feminist movements over the past twenty five years including gay liberational sexuality, sado-masochism, pornography, promiscuity, personal relationships, AIDS and postmodernity. The central focus of attention throughout is the nature, development and consequence of gay male sexuality and masculinity. This book is unique in its coverage of a wide range of issues and connecting subjects which are typically examined separately.
| Author | : Susan Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2005-08-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134919840 |
Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent. In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.
| Author | : C. Winter Han |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2021-07-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0295749105 |
Sexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as desirable and normative while othering men of color. In queer erotic economies this othering may take the form of sexual rejection or fetishization of men of color, but C. Winter Han argues that the real danger of sexual racism is that it creates a hierarchy of racial worth that extends outside of erotic encounters into the everyday lives of gay men of color. In this way, sexual racism perpetuates a larger project of racial erasing that equates gayness with whiteness to secure acceptance for gay white men at the expense of queers of color. With vivid examples from interviews, media representations, and online dating sites, Han highlights the creative means through which gay men of color, cordoned off in spaces both gay and straight, produce alternative frameworks to combat dominant narratives. Racial Erotics offers a new paradigm for understanding the connection of race and queer desire, demonstrating how race profoundly shapes sexual desires among men while racialized notions of desire construct beliefs about belonging.
| Author | : Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2012-09-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0822352419 |
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom.
| Author | : Brinda Bose |
| Publisher | : Seagull Books |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The first comprehensive assessment of the diverse sexual practices of India: transsexual, homosexual and heterosexual.
| Author | : Lynn Hunt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented—and domesticated—by men. They were still more often the object of the artist's or writer's gaze than they were the subject of their own representing processes. The erotic potential of women's bodies, however, was far from a marginal concern in the elaboration of modern forms of politics, art, literature, and psychology. In Eroticism and the Body Politic, scholars from art history, history, and literature examine the frequent intersections between the body erotic and the body politic. Focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, they show how eroticized representations of bodies had a multitude of political and cultural meanings. The authors consider the eroticized body in a wide variety of media: from Fragonard's paintings of "erotic mothers," to political pornography attacking Marie Antoinette, to the "new woman" of fin de siècle decorative arts. Exploring the possibilities of a multidisiplinary approach, the volume shows that eroticism had an impact far beyond the usual confines of libertine or pornographic literature—and that politics included much more than voting, meeting, or demonstrating. At a time of general methodological ferment in the "human sciences," Eroticism and the Body Politic brings fresh approaches to the developing field of cultural studies.
| Author | : Judith Butler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2014-02-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1317857267 |
A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power.
| Author | : Nick Rumens |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9042022396 |
Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory. Analytical insights offered within these essays will do much to stimulate debate about aspects of the socially and historically constituted relationship between desire and sexuality. Because of the diverse approaches and conclusions it contains, the volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in engaging with inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives in order to understand the dynamics between constructions of desire and belonging, and discourses of gender, sex and sexuality.
| Author | : Susan Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2005-08-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134919832 |
Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent. In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.
| Author | : Ratna Kapur |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2013-03-04 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1135310548 |
Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 New Cosmologies: Mapping the Postcolonial Feminist Legal Project -- chapter Liberal internationalism and the capabilities approach -- chapter 3 Erotic Disruptions: Legal Narratives of Culture, Sex and Nation in India -- chapter Narratives of culture, sex, nation -- chapter The Bandit Queen -- chapter Homosexuality -- chapter 4 The Tragedy of Victimisation Rhetoric: Resurrecting the 'Native' Subject in International/Postcolonial Feminist Legal Politics -- chapter Cultural essentialism -- chapter 'Death by culture' -- chapter 5 The Other Side of Universality: Cross-Border Movements and the Transnational Migrant Subject -- chapter Colonial subjects and the meaning of 'universality' -- chapter The Other in the contemporary moment -- chapter (b) Equating migration with trafficking.
