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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.
The idea of citizenship and conceptions of what it means to be a
good citizen have evolved over time. On the one hand, good
citizenship entails the ability to live with others in diverse
societies and to promote a common set of values of acceptance,
human rights, and democracy. On the other hand, in order to compete
in the global economy, nations require a more innovative,
autonomous, and reflective workforce, meaning good citizens are
also those who successfully participate in the economic development
of themselves and their country. These competing conceptions of
good citizenship can result in people's participation in
activities, such as profit-driven labor exploitation, that
contradict human rights and democratic tenants. Thus, global
citizenship education is fundamental to teaching, learning, and
redressing sociopolitical, economic, and environmental exploitation
around the world. Detailing the historical development of this
field of study to achieve recognition, Global Citizenship
Education: Challenges and Successes provides a critical discourse
on global citizenship education (GCE). Authors in this collection
discuss the underpinnings of global citizenship education via
contemporary theories and methodologies, as well as specific case
studies that illustrate the application of GCE initiatives. Editors
Eva Aboagye and S. Nombuso Dlamini aim to motivate learners and
educators in post-secondary institutions not only to understand the
issues of social and economic inequality and political and civil
unrest facing us, but also to take action that will lead to
equitable change in both local and global spaces.
With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring
increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused
critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives
are pornographic. This book explores how, rather than being
pornographic, explicit sex can be an essential element of cinematic
storytelling today. Offering detailed analysis of how choices are
made in the presentation of explicit sex in often very
controversial films, such as "Shame", "Baise-Moi", "Antichrist",
"Dogtooth" and "Lust, Caution", the expert contributors - including
Barbara Creed, Jacob Held and Linda Ruth Williams - show how sexual
content can aid characterisation, highlight themes, and provide
events that serve to develop plot. The impact of explicit sex as an
element of a film's narrative is also revealed to be assisted by
effective, nuanced performances and the incisive deployment of
directorial technique. Together they detail through the
fundamentals of cinema the shot by shot, moment by moment manner in
which explicit sex can be an essential component of a dramatically
powerful narrative.
In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how
Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the
world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal
divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a
rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the
exploitative property classification for animals with a new
transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness." In
developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented
toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their
proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal
Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law
closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal
care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and
relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies.
Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and
directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their
embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural
shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems.
Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal
Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of
interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument
for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.
Selected Readings in Human Sexuality provides students with a
carefully curated selection of readings that highlight specific
topics within the spectrum of human sexual behavior. The anthology
contains 10 readings that cover various topics, including
interracial and interethnic relationships, sexual harassment, human
trafficking, changes in sexual behavior throughout the lifespan,
and more. The readings have been selected to illustrate the
different ways in which human sexuality may be investigated,
including systematic reviews of existing literature, case studies,
and empirical research. The volume includes research on human
sexuality from various countries and cultures, including the
Netherlands, Canada, and China, to enrich conversations and provide
readers with diverse perspectives. Each reading is accompanied by
an introduction highlighting the importance of the reading and a
set of discussion prompts to facilitate further examination of the
topic. Selected Readings in Human Sexuality is designed to serve as
a supplementary reader for courses in human sexual behavior.
Human sexuality involves sexual attraction to another person, which
for the most part is to the opposite sex (heterosexuality), some to
the same sex (homosexuality) or some having both (bisexuality) or
not being attracted to anyone in a sexual manner (asexuality).
Human sexuality is determined by many factors, like cultural,
political, legal and philosophical aspects of life, but also
morality, ethics, theology, spirituality and religion. Sexuality is
as old as mankind and interest in sexual activity is very much
related to the onset of puberty and the period of schooling. In
this book, we have gathered papers from around the world in order
to discuss issues of sexuality from an international perspective.
China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. Everybody
knows this. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual
and cultural revolution is taking place - all in the bars, cafes
and streets of China's growing mega-cities. Welcome to this new
China. Writer and journalist Jemimah Steinfeld meets the young
people behind the world's fastest-moving nation to unveil their
attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new
words to describe the world they live in: 'little emperors' -
single men who have grown up under the one child policy - they're
bossy and selfish; 'bare branches' - those without children;
'leftovers' - women over twenty-six who aren't married; 'comrade' -
how the gay community identifies itself; 'love markets' - weekend
gatherings across China where parents attempt to find husbands and
wives for their children, and others show up to match-make young
singles and even offer boyfriends for hire.Jemimah Steinfeld
introduces the people at the heart of this world, from the woman
starting China's first online dating agency to the mistresses of
the rich and powerful; from the company trying to sell sex toys to
China's middle-classes to the sino-punks of Beijing's bar scene.
Little Emperors and Material Girls is the book which will change
the way you see China.
This is an important contribution to the sexual history of Britain.
This valuable study fills a gap in our understanding of modern
Scottish, and British, society, providing as it does a vital
perspective on Scotland's sexual history and its political and
social context. It is unique in exploring the period from 1950 to
1980, covering the immediate post-war and Scotland's sexual
'coming-of-age'. It charts a steady political growth from a deeply
moralistic policy framework towards a less judgmental, global and
scientific context. Davidson and Davis lead us through the Scottish
sexual landscape leading up to the global crisis of HIV/AIDS,
analysing post-war state policy towards issues such as abortion,
family planning, homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, sex
education and sexual heath. Policy-makers, social historians,
teachers and students alike will find this an invaluable resource
on the study of sexuality and policy-making in modern society.
Whether you've barely recovered from spending lockdown with your
other half or desperately heading to the clubs to meet 'the one',
SH**GED. MARRIED. ANNOYED. is here to see you through . . . THE
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NOW FEATURING A BONUS CHAPTER 'An absolute triumph' Daisy May
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at the highs and lows of relationships' Sun __________ SH**GED.
Hitting the bars, necking drinks and necking strangers, stumbling
home, one-night-stands, nightmare dates, thinking this one's
alright, ghosting, tears, more drinking, living off late-night
chips. MARRIED. Meeting 'the one', weekends away, moving in,
declaring life-long love, stags and hens, the perfect wedding, the
honeymoon period, getting through the hard bits together, starting
a family. ANNOYED. Can you close the bathroom door if you're doing
that? Sleepless nights, arguing about whose turn it is to change
the baby's nappy, toys everywhere, only having two drinks, still
being hungover, wondering when it all stopped being easy. Whether
you're sh**ged, married, annoyed, or all of the above, Chris and
Rosie Ramsey write hilariously and with honesty about the ups and
downs of dating, relationships, arguing, parenting and everything
in between.
How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of
people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these
questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the
early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara
French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint
to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in
the antebellum United States. French considers three groups of
Americans-Shakers, Catholic priests and nuns, and followers of
sexual reformer Sylvester Graham-whose sexual abstinence provoked
almost as much social, moral, and political concern as the idea of
sexual excess. Examining private diaries and letters, visual
culture and material artifacts, and a range of published works,
French reveals how people practicing sexual restraint became
objects of fascination, ridicule, and even violence in
nineteenth-century American culture. Against Sex makes clear that
in assessing the history of sexuality, an expansive view of sexual
practice that includes abstinence and restraint can shed important
new light on histories of society, culture, and politics.
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the
differences between secular and religious practice? This major
study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often
supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and
secular (especially urban) courts were already highly active in
regulating sex. They not only enforced clerical celibacy and sought
to combat prostitution but also restrained the pre- and
extramarital sexual activities of laypeople more generally.
Initially destabilising, the religious and institutional changes of
1530-60 eventually led to important new developments that tightened
the regime further. There were striking innovations in the use of
shaming punishments in provincial towns and experiments in the
practice of public penance in the church courts, while Bridewell
transformed the situation in London. Allowing the clergy to marry
was a milestone of a different sort. Together these changes
contributed to a marked shift in the moral climate by 1600.
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