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Cambridge University Press Queer Kinship after Wilde
Book SynopsisThis book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration as they generated new ways of approaching kinship.Table of ContentsPart I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics: 1. The son of Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship; 2. “Out and out from the family to the community”: The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion; Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community: 3. An extraordinary marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri; 4. Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China; Part III. Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship: 5. Richard Bruce Nugent's 'Geisha Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy; 6. Hallowed incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.
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Cambridge University Press Theory History and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Making Gender Salient
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Cambridge University Press Making Gender Salient
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Cambridge University Press Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
Book SynopsisStudents of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual identity long debated by historians. Townsend's engaging, accessible close readings of medieval Latin poetry, prose romance, and monastic devotional texts combine philological precision with insights drawn from queer theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Subversive Silences of Medieval Latin Rhetoric; Passing over Queerness: Sexual Heterodoxy in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis; Reticence and Desire in the Devotional Works of Aelred of Rievaulx; The Deadly Play of Speech and Silence in Apollonius of Tyre; Hiding What Must Be Hidden: Skirting the Scandal of the Amazon Subject.
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Cambridge University Press Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
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Cambridge University Press The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Insufferable
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland
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Cambridge University Press Hate Speech Frontiers
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Cambridge University Press In Love and at War
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Cambridge University Press Inducing Intimacy
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Cambridge University Press CounterStereotypes and Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBTQ Equality
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Cambridge University Press Pride in Asia
Book SynopsisThis Element provides a transregional overview of Pride in Asia, exploring the multifaceted nature of Pride in contemporary LGBTQIA+ events in Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This collaborative research that combines individual studies draws on linguistic landscapes as an analytical and methodological approach. Each section examines the different manifestations of Pride as a discourse and the affordances and limitations of this discourse in facilitating the social, political, and cultural projects of LGBTQIA+ people in Asia, illustrating both commonalities and specificities in Asian Pride movements. Analyzing a variety of materials such as protest signs, t-shirts, and media reports, each section illustrates how modes of semiosis, through practice, intersect notions of gender and sexuality with broader social and political formations. The authors thus emphasize the need to view Pride not as a uniform global phenomenon but as a dynamic, locally shaped expression of LGBTQIA+ solidarity.
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Cambridge University Press Vernacular Rights Cultures
Book SynopsisThe book proposes that decolonising human rights requires historically and politically specific conceptual, empirical and theoretical investigations of rights politics. It tracks contemporary subaltern movements across India and Pakistan to show how and why marginalised groups deploy the language of rights to demand justice.
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Cambridge University Press Intersectional Advocacy
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Cambridge University Press Intersectional Advocacy
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Cambridge University Press CounterStereotypes and Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBTQ Equality
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Cambridge University Press In Love and at War
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Cambridge University Press A Funny Thing
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Cambridge University Press Young and Restless in China
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Cambridge University Press Towards Tolerance and Acceptance
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Cambridge University Press Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
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Cambridge University Press Pride in Asia
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Cambridge University Press A Jurisprudence of Conversations
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Cambridge University Press Invisible Revolutionaries
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Cambridge University Press Public Preferences Gender and Foreign Support for Armed Movements
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Cambridge University Press Gender Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
Book SynopsisThis book offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. It will be a key resource for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in courses on classical art, classical civilization, and gender studies.Trade Review'This is an interesting and diverse collection of essays that raises thought provoking questions around representations of the body and gender in the ancient world.' Lucy Angel, Classics For AllTable of ContentsIntroduction: approaching gender; 1. The male body: doryphoros; 2. The female body: Aphrodite of Cnidos; 3. The veiled body: Tanagra statuette; 4. The ageing body: drunken old woman; 5. The indefinite body: sleeping Hermaphrodite; 6. The political body: Prima Porta Augustus; 7. The incongruous body: portrait of 'Marcia Furnilla' as Venus; 8. The beloved body: Antinous; 9. The other body: marble relief with female gladiators; 10. The non-human body: Pan and a she-goat; Epilogue: Bernini's 'Neptune and Triton'.
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Cambridge University Press Language and Gender
Book SynopsisThe new edition of this introductory textbook has been updated and restructured to emphasise the deep, yet constantly changing relationship between gender and language use. It covers the full breadth of the course, including sexuality and non-normative sexual and gender identities.Trade Review'This is no ordinary textbook. Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, two of the most important scholars writing in sociolinguistics and semantics today, have established a new direction for research in the field of language and gender. There is a reason that this now classic text is being reissued in second edition: no other book in this field makes a more convincing case for the crucial interdependence of language, gender, and sexuality in the formation of diverse twenty-first-century subjectivities. Revised to include all the provocative research directions of the last decade, this new edition of Language and Gender is a must-read for students and scholars who are engaged in the grounded analytics of social life.' Kira Hall, University of Colorado'… Language and Gender is a much needed work, and a much needed new edition in these changing times. Kira Hall's endorsement on the back cover employs two key terms: convincing and provocative. To which I add: absolutely necessary.' Mariaelena Bartesaghi, Journal of Language and PoliticsTable of Contents1. An introduction to gender; 2. Introduction to the study of language and gender; 3. Linguistic resources; 4. Getting it said; 5. Making nice; 6. Being assertive… or not; 7. Where common sense comes from and where it hides; 8. Mapping the world; 9. Constructing nations, constructing boundaries; 10. Fashioning selves.
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Cambridge University Press Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the cultural and theatrical intersections of early modern temporal concepts and gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, across the genres of domestic comedy, city comedy and revenge tragedy, Sarah Lewis shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage, and vice versa. She sets out the ways in which the temporal constructs of patience, prodigality and revenge, as well as the dramatic identities that are built from those constructs, and the experience of playgoing itself, negotiate a fraught opposition between action in the moment and delay in the duration. This book argues that looking at time through the lens of gender, and gender through the lens of time, is crucial if we are to develop our understanding of the early modern cultural construction of both.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Virtuous delay: the enduring patient wife; 2. Transgressive action: the impatient prodigal husband; 3. Waiting and taking: the temporally conflicted revenger; 4. The delay's the thing: patience, prodigality and revenge in Hamlet; Conclusion. Echoes.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Boys Sex Young Men on Hookups Love Porn Consent
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Boys Sex
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow in paperback—Peggy Orenstein, author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Girls & Sex, turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men. “Eye-opening…. Every few pages, the boy world cracks open a little bit…. Even in the most anxiety-provoking moments of Boys & Sex, it’s clear that Orenstein believes in the goodness of boys and the men they can become, and she believes in us, as parents, to raise them” (New York Times Book Review).Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls
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HarperCollins Fixer
Book SynopsisA New York Times Editors’ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out - “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. The virtuosic central sequence explores the untimely death of the poet’s estranged father, a handyman and addict, and the brothers left to sort through the detritus of a life long lost to them. Through lyrical, darkly humorous vignettes, Kunz asks what it costs to build a home and a love that not only lasts but sustains.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Privilege Power and Difference
Book SynopsisPrivilege, Power, and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, the 3rd edition links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This program has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.Table of ContentsChapter 1 We’re in TroubleChapter 2 Privilege, Oppression, and DifferenceChapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of DominationChapter 4 Making Privilege and Oppression HappenChapter 5 The Trouble with the TroubleChapter 6 What It Has to Do With UsChapter 7 How Systems of Privilege WorkChapter 8 Getting Off the Hook: Denial and ResistanceChapter 9 What Can We Do?Epilogue A Worldview is Hard to Change
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Descent of Man
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become—with illustrations throughout.In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye on the world of men to ask, what sort of man would make the world a better place? What would happen if we rethought the macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a different ideal? In the current atmosphere of bullying, intolerance and misogyny, demonstrated in the recent Trump versus Clinton presidential campaign, The Descent of Man is a timely and essential addition to current conversations around gender. Apart from gaining vast new wardrobe options, the real benefit might be that a newly fitted masculinity will allow men to have better relationships—and that’s happiness, right? Grayson Perry admits he’
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Oxford University Press Random Families
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The University of Chicago Press Sexual NatureSexual Culture
Book SynopsisSpanning the chasm of the nature versus nurture debate, this work discusses human sexuality as a complex interaction of genetic potentials and cultural influences. Topics covered include: gender differences; the role of physical attractiveness in mate selection; and genetic and hormonal factors.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction: Nature, Nurture, and In-Between Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton. 2: Sexual Nature: What Can We Learn from a Cross-Species Perspective? Mary S. McDonald Pavelka 3: Sex as an Alternative to Aggression in the Bonobo Frans B. M. de Waal 4: The Evolution of Female Sexual Desire Kim Wallen 5: Beauty Is in the Adaptations of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Psychology of Human Female Sexual Attractiveness Donald Symons 6: Sex Hormones and Sexual Behavior Jean D. Wilson 7: Psychoneuroendocrinology and Sexual Pleasure: The Aspect of Sexual Orientation Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg 8: The Genetics of Sexual Orientation: From Fruit Flies to Humans Angela M. L. Pattatucci, Dean H. Hamer. 9: The Cultural Management of Adolescent Sexuality Alice Schlegel 10: Sexuality, Infertility, and Sexually Transmitted Disease among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa Robert C. Bailey, Robert V. Aunger. 11: The Pleasures of Homosexuality David F. Greenberg 12: Discourse, Intercourse, and the Excluded Middle: Anthropology and the Problem of Sexual Experience Donald Tuzin 13: The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics Lawrence Cohen 14: The Pursuit of Pleasure and the Sale of Sex Lenore Manderson 15: Sexuality and the Experience of Love Thomas Gregor 16: Model-Based Representations of Human Sexual Behavior Edward H. Kaplan 17: Sexual Activities as Told in Surveys Richard Berk, Paul R. Abramson, Paul Okami. Appendix: Theorizing Sexuality Paul Okami, Laura Pendleton. Contributors Index
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University of Chicago Press Sexual NatureSexual Culture
Book SynopsisSpanning the chasm of the nature versus nurture debate, this work discusses human sexuality as a complex interaction of genetic potentials and cultural influences. Topics covered include: gender differences; the role of physical attractiveness in mate selection; and genetic and hormonal factors.
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University of Chicago Press Pervasive Prejudice Unconventional Evidence of
Book SynopsisThis title confronts questions of racial and gender discrimination. In a series of studies, Ian Ayres finds overwhelming evidence that in a variety of markets - retail car sales, bail bonding, kidney transplantation, and FCC licensing - blacks and females are consistently at a disadvantage.
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University of Chicago Press Money Myths Change The Economic Lives of
Book SynopsisThis work explores the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the US. It debunks common stereotypical ideas about gay privilege, income and consumer behaviour. The author disproves the assumption that gay men and lesbians are more affluent than heterosexuals, and analyzes issues that affect them.
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University of Chicago Press The Language of Sex Five Voices From Northern
Book SynopsisBy introducing five representative voices from the turn of the 12th century in northern France, this study aims to portray sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. Those discussed include Pierre the Chanter, Andre the Chaplain and Jean Renart.Table of ContentsPrefatory Words... Introduction 1: The Five Discourses Pierre the Chanter and the Augustinian Tradition The Prose Salernitan Questions and the Galenic Tradition Andre the Chaplain and the Ovidian Tradition Jean Renart and the Tradition of Romance Jean Bodel and the Fabliaux Tradition 2: Participants: The Sociology of Sexuality The Physiological Parameters The Social Parameters The Marital Parameters On the Margin: Prostitutes and Holy Matrons 3: The Sexual Body The Learned Body The Body Concealed The Body Exposed 4: Sexual Desire Concupiscentia: The Theology of Desire Delectatio: The Physiology of Desire Passio: The Ovidian Tradition Joie et dolor: Their Interplay in the Romance Tradition Talent: The Fabliaux The Supremacy of Desire: Noncoital Sexuality and the Desire for God 5: Coitus Myths of Origins: Poets and Theologians The Physiology of Coitus Chastity Sexuality Modesty Sexual Techniques Nonconsensual Coitus: From Seduction to Rape 6: Children The Physiology of Reproduction: From Conception to Birth The Natalist Policy of Churchmen Restraints on Fecundity The Politics of Lineage: The Romances Conclusions: Sexuality, Gender, and History Sexuality Gender History: A Postlude Appendix 1: Robert of Courson, Summa XLII, 31, 32 Appendix 2: Pierre the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum (Long Version) Appendix 3: Pierre the Chanter, Questions Table 1: Fabliaux Containing Sexually Active Characters Classified by Social Group Table 2: Fabliaux Containing Sexual Encounters Classified by Ecclesiastical Categories Short Titles Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Guys Like Us Citing Masculinity in Cold War
Book SynopsisThis work considers how writers of the 1950s and 1960s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort.
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The University of Chicago Press Freaks Talk Back
Book SynopsisAre talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result is empowerment through exploitation. The book illuminates the dilemmas and practicalities of media visibility.
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University of Chicago Press Smile of Discontent HumorGender and
Book SynopsisArgues that humour has long been viewed as a repressed feature of 19th-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen and Henry James, the book points to a wryly amusing perspective that differs in rhetoric, affect, and politics from traditional forms of comic expression.
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The University of Chicago Press Sambia Sexual Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation; and the creation of a third sex in nature and culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Covenant of Blood Circumcision Gender in
Book SynopsisA study to examine why circumcision holds such an important place in the Jewish psyche. The text traces the symbolism of circumcision through history, examining its evolution as a symbol of the covenant in the post-exilic period of the Bible and its meaning in the era of Mishnah and Talmud.Table of Contents1: Circumcision as Symbol in the Jewish Psyche 2: Bible and Birth: Some Priestly Public Meanings 3: Interlude from Priests to Rabbis: Origins of a Liturgy 4: Reconstructing the Rite 5: Reconstructing the Rabbinic Meaning System 6: Wine, Blood, and Salvation in Rabbinic Judaism 7: Blood, Salvation, Works, and Faith: Circumcision in Early Judaism and Christianity 8: Gender Opposition in Rabbinic Judaism: Free-flowing Blood in a Culture of Control 9: Control and Transformation: "The Raw and the Cooked" in Rabbinic Culture 10: Women's Spirituality and the Presence of Mothers in Rabbinic Ritual 11: Medieval Rabbinism and the Ritual Marginalization of Women Afterword: Brit or Milah? Circumcision in American Culture Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Foucault and the Kamasutra The Courtesan the
Book SynopsisThe Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the Kamasutra, Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and origin of this iconic Indian text and engages in the first serious reading of its relationship with Foucault. Gautam shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics grounded in the discourse of love, and Foucault provides the framework for opening up an intellectual horizon of Indian thought. To do this, Gautam looks to the history of three inglorious characters in classical India: the courtesan and her two closest male companionsher patron, the dandy consort; and her teacher and advisor, the dandy guru. Foucault's distinction between erotic arts and the science of sexuality drives Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as a symbol of b
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