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The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of
sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals
discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that
historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural
construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes
this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the
fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic
Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are
involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On
the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of
cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side,
Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to
become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide
ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is
history, both personal and collective, in reversals and
reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.
In Spain, on May 15, 2011, a movement against austerity measures
began. In a time when representative democracies were under threat,
15M came to life as a virtuous and democratic response to the slide
into far-right populism and authoritarianism. More than a social
movement, 15M became a mode of being with transformative,
democratizing potential. In Democracy Here and Now, Pablo Ouziel
offers a grounded analysis of 15M. At the time of the movement and
during the ensuing encampments, Ouziel travelled extensively,
speaking to participants, and keeping an ongoing record of his
conversations. Presenting an original participatory mode of
research, the book reveals six types of intersubjective, "joining
hands" relationships that 15M has brought into being and works to
carry on in creative ways. The book shows how the movement's way of
being and temporality persists in Spain following the square
occupations, while 15M citizens continue to learn and move forward
in less perceptible ways. Democracy Here and Now sheds light on a
deeply relational, intersectional, and eco-social mode of
democracy, and shows how 15M's ongoing democratization practices
are exemplary of similar grassroots movements around the world,
broadening our understandings of what it means to be democratic in
the here and now.
Winner, Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for Queer Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association, 2020 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book
Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2020 Honorable
Mention, Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, 2020 Sex, drugs, religion, and
love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution
zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas.
During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence,
Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants,
women who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers
and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge
a fellowship with those workers. Luna examines the entanglements,
both intimate and financial, that define their lives. Using the
concept of obligar, she delves into the connections that tie sex
workers to their families, their clients, their pimps, the
missionaries, and the drug dealers-and to the guilt, power, and
comfort of faith. Love in the Drug War scrutinizes not only la zona
and the people who work to survive there, but also Reynosa
itself-including the influences of the United States-adding nuance
and new understanding to the current Mexico-US border crisis.
In exploring an array of intimacies between strangers, this book
reveals how human relationships, dignity, and collaborations are
experienced among global migrants. Nayan Shah takes a novel
approach by examining both the legal histories of hundreds of
interracial marriages involving South Asians and the countless
court cases documenting illicit sexual contact between South Asian
men and white, Chinese, and Native American men. Shah illuminates a
stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations. At the
same time, he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in
collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and
dispossess nonwhite "races." "Stranger Intimacy" reveals the
intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of
immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the
twentieth century.
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of "mati" work, an old
practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which
marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners.
Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to
create alternative families of kin, lovers, and children, and gives
a fascinating account of women's sexuality that is not limited to
either heterosexuality or same-sex sexuality. She offers new
perspectives on the lives of Caribbean women, transnational gay and
lesbian movements, and an Afro-Surinamese tradition that challenges
conventional Western notions of marriage, gender, identity, and
desire. Bringing these women's voices to the forefront, she offers
an extensive and groundbreaking analysis of the unique historical,
religious, psychological, economic, linguistic, cultural, and
political forces that have shaped their lives.
An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and
deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will
reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period.
Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it
explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered.
Reproducing original advertisements and letters, with extracts
taken from memoirs, legal cases, newspaper advice columns, and
collections held in the Museum of London and the British Museum,
this book lifts the veil from historical sexual attitudes.
Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in
Poland, Agnieszka Koscianska looks at how it has changed from the
19th century to the present day. The book compares how sex was
described in school textbooks, including those scrapped by the
communists for fear of offending religious sentiments, and explores
how the Catholic church retained its power in Poland under various
regimes. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the
way sex was written about in the country, and how they established
the field of Polish sex education.
Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality
remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often
misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the
book has reached both students and general readers with an interest
in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword
by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes
account of new developments in the field, a rewritten and expanded
appendix on ancient images of sexuality, and an updated
bibliography.
Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and
attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can
cultivate through practical training and personal development.
Though it has been an object of media speculation - and frequent
sensationalism - for over a decade, this cultural formation remains
poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry,
Rachel O'Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars,
training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials.
Pushing past established understandings of 'pickup artists' as
pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes
seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this
sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of
neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary
intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of
sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is
essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality,
sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to
understand the seduction industry's overarching logics and internal
workings.
This collection of essays asks contributors to take the
capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about
what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have
existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality
and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer
medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality
and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and
materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.
How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the
sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent
Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and
anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual
behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in
Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can
deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family.
He also provides a fascinating account of depictions of sexuality
in the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time
Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic verse a group of
poets catered especially for readers with homoerotic tastes. The
second part of Shakespeare, Sex, and Love focuses on the variety of
ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and at how
he relates sexuality to love. Wells shows that Shakespeare's
attitude to sex developed over the course of his writing career,
and devotes whole chapters to 'The Fun of Sex' - to how he raises
laughter out of the matter of sex in both the language and the
plotting of some of his comedies; portrayals of sexual desire; to
Romeo and Juliet as the play in which Shakespeare focuses most
centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship
between them; to sexual jealousy, traced through four major plays;
'Sexual Experience'; and 'Whores and Saints'. A final chapter,
'Just Good Friends' examines Shakespeare's rendering of same-gender
relationships.
Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the
perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with
paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts
with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer's tales are rife with issues of
mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between
authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word
and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other -
conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones,
dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the
macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book
brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and
writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of
"shadow" chapters that speak to or against the four "central"
chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.
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