Inversão Sexual: 6 A Teoria da Inversão Sexual

Inversão Sexual: 6 A Teoria da Inversão Sexual
Author: Havelock Ellis
Publisher: INDEX ebooks
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 989857514X

A primeira edição integral em português do clássico de Havelock Ellis sobre homossexualidade, publicado pela INDEX ebooks. No final do século XIX, Ellis teve a coragem de publicar abertamente um estudo detalhado e desapaixonado sobre a problemática da inversão sexual, que recentemente havia condenado Oscar Wilde à prisão e nos séculos anteriores classificara os culpados do "nefando pecado" como hereges e degenerados. No 6º capítulo, Ellis analisa as diversas teorias da inversão sexual: adquirida vs congénita?, uma anomalia?, uma degeneração?, uma doença?, uma mutação?, e outras, mantendo o mesmo nível de riqueza de exemplos e fontes a que nos habituou nos capítulos anteriores. Nas próprias palavras de Ellis: "O que é a inversão sexual? Será, como muitos nos querem fazer acreditar, um vício abominável, adquirido, destinado a ser suprimido pela prisão? ou será, como alguns afirmam, uma variedade benéfica do leque de emoções humanas que deve ser tolerada ou mesmo acarinhada?"

The Object of the Atlantic

The Object of the Atlantic
Author: Rachel Price
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810130130

The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.

The Culture of Sex in Ancient China

The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
Author: Paul R. Goldin
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2001-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0824864654

The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. A survey of major pre-imperial sources, including some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition, reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations, such as those between a worshiper and his or her deity or a ruler and his subjects. In his examination of early Confucian views of women, Goldin notes that, while contradictions and ambiguities existed in the articulation of these views, women were nevertheless regarded as full participants in the Confucian project of self-transformation. He goes on to show how assumptions concerning the relationship of sexual behavior to political activity (assumptions reinforced by the habitual use of various literary tropes discussed earlier in the book) led to increasing attempts to regulate sexual behavior throughout the Han dynasty. Following the fall of the Han, this ideology was rejected by the aristocracy, who continually resisted claims of sovereignty made by impotent emperors in a succession of short-lived dynasties. Erudite and immensely entertaining, this study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.

Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil

Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil
Author: W. Nylen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403980306

William Nylen begins by discussing North Americans' love-hate relationship with politics and politicians, then shows how Brazilians feel the same way (as do many citizens of democracies throughout the world). He argues that this is so because contemporary democracies have increasingly trickled up and away from so-called 'average citizens'. We now live in a world of 'Elitist Democracies' essentially constructed of, by and for moneyed, well-connected and ethically-challenged elites. Fortunately, there are alternatives, and that's where Brazil offers valuable lessons. Experiments in local-level participatory democracy, put into practice in Brazil by the Workers Party show both the promise and the practical limitations of efforts to promote 'popular participation' and citizen empowerment.

Theories of Sexual Offending

Theories of Sexual Offending
Author: Tony Ward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2006-02-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 047003288X

This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique of current theorising about sexual offending. It presents the key ideas underpinning each theory in a clear and accessible manner. Theories are rigorously tested and evaluated, and their merits are examined from both a research and a clinical point of view. Importantly, the emphasis is on providing clear links between theory and practice, and the clinical implications of the different theories and perspectives are explicitly discussed. In addition, a number of new ideas about the aetiology of sexual offending are presented. Theories of Sexual Offending is one of the few books to draw all of the disparate strands of theorising together, and is the only one to clearly link theory to practice. It will be a valuable resource for any professional working with sexual offenders, such as clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and social workers. It will also be of interest to students of forensic and clinical psychology.

Lesbian Studies

Lesbian Studies
Author: Tamsin Wilton
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1995
Genre: Feminist theory
ISBN: 9780415086561

An academic approach to both gender and the erotic, which clarifies the damaging influence of heterosexism and examines Lesbian treatment in sociology, psychology, social policy, cultural studies, film theory and history.

The Ritual Process

The Ritual Process
Author: Victor Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351474901

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."

Fat Shame

Fat Shame
Author: Amy Erdman Farrell
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814727689

A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.

Seductions and Enigmas

Seductions and Enigmas
Author: John Fletcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781909831087

In a career spanning more than five decades the distinguished French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924-2012) elaborated a distinctive methodology for the reading of Freud's corpus and evolved, in connection with it, a radical new metapsychology - one that critically recast Freud's early 'seduction' theory of trauma and placed at the heart of psychic life a particular model of 'enigmatic signification.' Seductions and Enigmas is a volume dedicated to the implications of Laplanche's thought for reading and interpretation. It collects papers that elaborate Laplanche's unique method for the interpretation of Freud, with its attention to the decentering and recentering movements of thought that structure the psychoanalytic field, and explore how the metapsychological developments arising from the implementation of that method open up new horizons for the psychoanalytic reading of other texts and oeuvres in the cultural domain. The volume comprises essays by Laplanche as well as by clinicians and scholars whose work takes inspiration from his research. Authors variously establish, develop or consolidate Laplanche's critical methodology as such, or work through aspects of his major theoretical innovations as points of departure for the reading of cultural works of different kinds: fiction, drama, painting, visual and sound installations, and film. These theoretical innovations cover a breadth of topics including seduction, sublimation, gender, femininity, the functions of binding and unbinding, masochism and the role of the enigmatic. In their range, the texts brought together here are a testament to the vitality and fertility of Laplanche's theoretical endeavour, for anyone concerned with the re-reading of Freud or with continuing to recalibrate and advance the parameters of critical interpretation in light of Freud's legacy.