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To fit a changing society, the conventional ways we date and mate
have given way to brand new methods. People nowadays marry later in
life, choose not to marry at all, seek partners after divorce,
outlive spouses, relocate to new areas and even endure pandemics.
This signifies that we are moving toward larger dating pools,
something made possible through public personal advertising. This
text details personal advertising in print and digital media, as
well as online dating services, speed dating, the use of mobile
dating apps and other topics. Interviews reveal the appeal and
limitations of personal advertising for meeting people. This book
offers a window into the development of trust and relationships, as
well as the increasing role technology plays in shaping how people
meet and mate in the modern world.
Representing Kink raises awareness about non-normative texts and
non-normative erotic practices and desires. It defines "kink"
broadly, encompassing a range of "inappropriate" texts and
understanding it in frequent reference to non-normative erotic
fantasies and experiences. Kink is treated as both a set of
practices as well as a category of texts at the nexus of subject
and form. In addition to canonical texts that take up erotic and
marginalized themes, the collection also studies forms that are
themselves fringe and feature kink: taboo literature,
self-published erotica, SM narratives, fan fiction, role-playing
games, and other disavowed texts. The purpose of this study is to
focus attention on the margins of an already marginalized subject,
in order to highlight the extent to which non-normative textuality
and eroticism both shape and are shaped by culture and context. It
sheds light on a category of subjects that is at once mainstream in
the form of texts such as Fifty Shades of Grey and yet nevertheless
repeatedly disparaged and undertheorized. This book advocates for
conversations about kinky texts that transcend dichotomous
frameworks of good and bad, and normal and deviant--thinking
instead in new, theoretically rigorous and flexible directions.
The third edition of this pragmatic resource assists mental health
professionals in helping clients resolve sexual concerns that arise
during the course of therapy. It has been updated with the latest
theoretical approaches, pharmacological treatments, and
ethical/legal concerns. It presents a wealth of information on
assessing and treating both common and uncommon sexual concerns
accompanied by helpful informational worksheets. By offering new
case examples exemplifying contemporary concerns such as minority
stress, intersectionality, and recognition of therapist privilege
in relation to client, the new edition emphasizes diversity
inclusive of sexual and gender minorities. It covers the latest
technology in telemental health and the role it plays in the sex
lives of clients.Designed to take the uninformed reader or one who
might be uncomfortable about sex to a place of knowledge and
competence, the book includes strategies to help both the client
and therapist become more comfortable with sexuality. Take-Away
Points, Activities and Resources in every chapter and downloadable
forms, templates, and tools combine to make this an indispensable
resource. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile
devices or computers. New to the Third Edition: Updated approaches
to considerations of gender identity The impact of
intersectionality, oppression, and minority stress De-pathologizing
"kinky" behavior Understanding the "orgasm gap" and "orgasm
equality" Treating couples who want to open their relationships
Applies mindfulness to treatment of sexual problems Expanded
information about the sexological ecosystem Treating out-of-control
sexual behavior and the new Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder
ICD-11 diagnosis Key Features: Provides clear treatment
recommendations for nearly all sexual concerns Uses an ecosystemic
approach for assessing individuals and couples Explains how to
assess and treat sexual pain disorders Covers sexuality across the
lifespan Includes "Step into My Office" vignettes offering a
glimpse into everyday sex therapy practice Provides activities for
reader to reinforce information including "Take-Away" points,
downloadable forms, templates, and tools Instructors Manual and
PowerPoint presentation for each chapter
One of the great transformations presently sweeping the Muslim
world involves not just political and economic change but the
reshaping of young Muslims' styles of romance, courtship, and
marriage. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner takes up the personal lives and
sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of
Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes
taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250
interviews over a fifteen-year period, her vivid, well-crafted
ethnography is full of insights into the real-life struggles of
young Muslims and framed by a deep understanding of Indonesia's
wider debates on gender and youth culture.The changes among Muslim
youth reflect an ongoing if at times unsteady attempt to balance
varied ideals, ethical concerns, and aspirations. On the one hand,
growing numbers of young people show a deep and pervasive desire
for a more active role in their Islamic faith. On the other, even
as they seek a more self-conscious and scripture-based profession
of faith, many educated youth aspire to personal relationships
similar to those seen among youth elsewhere - a greater measure of
informality, openness, and intimacy than was typical for their
parents - and grandparents' generations. Young women in particular
seek freedom for self-expression, employment, and social
fulfillment outside of the home. Smith-Hefner pays particular
attention to their shifting roles and perspectives because it is
young women who have been most dramatically affected by the
upheavals transforming this Muslim-majority country. Although
deeply personal, the changing aspirations of young Muslims have
immense implications for social and public life throughout
Indonesia. The fruit of a longitudinal study begun shortly after
the fall of the authoritarian New Order government and the return
to democracy in 1998-1999, the book reflects Smith-Hefner's nearly
forty years of anthropological engagement with the island of Java
and her continuing exploration into what it means to be both
"modern" and Muslim. The culture of the new Muslim youth, the
author shows, through all its nuances and variations, reflects the
inexorable abandonment of traditions and practices deemed
incompatible with authentic Islam and an ongoing and profound
Islamization of intimacies.
While hook-up culture on university campuses represents a part of
the story, it is only part of the story. It is important to add to
this and investigate the way the university itself brokers and
seeks out specific forms of sexuality, sex, and connection amongst
students. This book sheds light on how the university as an
institution endorses certain forms of sociality, sexuality, and
coupling, while excluding others. Building on extensive
ethnographic fieldwork, this book furthers the discussion on the
impact these institutional measures have on students, and how
students work through and around them - while simultaneously
establishing relations outside of and beyond hooking-up.
Infidelity raises questions: Why do women stay with a cheater? Why
do women cheat? Why do women become "the other woman"? How does the
experience of infidelity impact future relationships? What effect
does infidelity have on children? How do women deal with children
born from a spouse's affair? Drawing on interviews with U.S. women
of various ages, racial backgrounds, educational attainments and
sexual orientations, this insightful study examines their personal
experiences of cheating and being cheated on. Equal parts engaging,
uplifting and dispiriting, their narratives range from
all-too-familiar stories to unconventional perspectives on love,
life and interpersonal communication.
This visionary volume examines how queer bodies are theatrically
represented on the Cuban stage in ways that challenge one of the
state's primary revolutionary tools, the categorization and
homogenization of individuals. Bretton White critically analyzes
contemporary performances that upset traditional understandings of
performer and spectator, as well as what constitutes the ideal
Cuban citizenry.Following the 1959 revolution, nonconformists were
monitored and reported by local committees and punished or reformed
by the government. Censorship was rampant, and Cuban art suffered
as the state tried to control the national message. Through the
lens of queer theory, White explores how the body has been central
to the state's fear-based marginalization of gay life and looks at
the ways these theatrical performances defuse that fear. She
highlights the revolutionary model of masculinity and the role it
plays in excluding people based upon visible queer difference.
White finds that, through experimental performances of sexuality,
actors create connections with audiences to evoke shared feelings
of discomfort, intimacy, shame, longing, frustration, and failure,
which echo the prevalence of these feelings in other Cuban spaces.
By performing queerness, these plays question the state's narrative
of heteronormativity and empower citizens to negotiate alternative
understandings of Cuban identity.
Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing
bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready
categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object
therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:
what is it possible to know about experiences, practices and
perceptions of sex and sexualities? What approaches might help or
hinder our efforts to probe such experiences? This collection
explores the creative, personal and contextual parameters involved
in researching sexuality, cutting across disciplinary boundaries
and drawing on case studies from a variety of countries and
contexts. Combining a wide range of expertise, its contributors
address such key areas as pornography, sex work, intersectionality
and LGBT perspectives. The contributors also share their own
experiences of researching sexuality within contrasting
disciplines, as well as interrogating how the sexual identities of
researchers themselves can relate to, and inform, their work. The
result is a unique and diverse collection that combines practical
insights on field work with novel theoretical reflections.
In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of
chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on
chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates,
and that it was also a virtue that governed the construction of
different literary genres. Drawing on a range of materials, from
prose to theatre, theological controversy to legal trials, and
court ceremonies - including royal birthing rituals - Lander
Johnson unearths previously unrecognised opinions about chastity.
She reveals that early Stuart theatrical and court ceremonies were
part of the same political debate as prose pamphlets and religious
sermons. The volume also offers new readings of Milton's Comus,
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Henrietta Maria's queenship and
John Ford's plays. It will appeal to scholars of early modern
literature, theatre, political, medical and cultural history, and
gender studies.
One of the great transformations presently sweeping the Muslim
world involves not just political and economic change but the
reshaping of young Muslims' styles of romance, courtship, and
marriage. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner takes up the personal lives and
sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of
Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes
taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250
interviews over a fifteen-year period, her vivid, well-crafted
ethnography is full of insights into the real-life struggles of
young Muslims and framed by a deep understanding of Indonesia's
wider debates on gender and youth culture. The changes among Muslim
youth reflect an ongoing if at times unsteady attempt to balance
varied ideals, ethical concerns, and aspirations. On the one hand,
growing numbers of young people show a deep and pervasive desire
for a more active role in their Islamic faith. On the other, even
as they seek a more self-conscious and scripture-based profession
of faith, many educated youth aspire to personal relationships
similar to those seen among youth elsewhere-a greater measure of
informality, openness, and intimacy than was typical for their
parents' and grandparents' generations. Young women in particular
seek freedom for self-expression, employment, and social
fulfillment outside of the home. Smith-Hefner pays particular
attention to their shifting roles and perspectives because it is
young women who have been most dramatically affected by the
upheavals transforming this Muslim-majority country. Although
deeply personal, the changing aspirations of young Muslims have
immense implications for social and public life throughout
Indonesia. The fruit of a longitudinal study begun shortly after
the fall of the authoritarian New Order government and the return
to democracy in 1998-1999, the book reflects Smith-Hefner's nearly
forty years of anthropological engagement with the island of Java
and her continuing exploration into what it means to be both
"modern" and Muslim. The culture of the new Muslim youth, the
author shows, through all its nuances and variations, reflects the
inexorable abandonment of traditions and practices deemed
incompatible with authentic Islam and an ongoing and profound
Islamization of intimacies.
Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of
knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser
imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness.
To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies
as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of
thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter
draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture
that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these
technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters
with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the
ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to
contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters. To
do so, Sensual Excess analyzes moments of brown jouissance that
exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple
epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer frameworks for
minoritarian knowledge production which is designed to enable one
to sit with uncertainty. Through examinations of installations and
performances like Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, Kara Walker's A
Subtlety, Patty Chang's In Love and Nao Bustamante's Neapolitan,
Musser unpacks the relationships between racialized sexuality and
consumption to interrogate foundational concepts in psychoanalytic
theory, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. In so
doing, Sensual Excess offers a project of knowledge production
focused not on mastery, but on sensing and imagining otherwise,
whatever and wherever that might be.
Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence
against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the
widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved
women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of
men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that
sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically and in
a wide variety of forms, including physical assault, sexual
coercion, and other intimate violations. To tell the story of men
such as Rufus?who was coerced into a sexual union with an enslaved
woman, Rose, whose resistance of this union is widely
celebrated?historian Thomas A. Foster interrogates a range of
sources on slavery: early American newspapers, court records,
enslavers' journals, abolitionist literature, the testimony of
formerly enslaved people collected in autobiographies and in
interviews, and various forms of artistic representation. Foster's
sustained examination of how black men were sexually violated by
both white men and white women makes an important contribution to
our understanding of masculinity, sexuality, the lived experience
of enslaved men, and the general power dynamics fostered by the
institution of slavery. Rethinking Rufus illuminates how the
conditions of slavery gave rise to a variety of forms of sexual
assault and exploitation that affected all members of the
community.
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