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Celibacies - American Modernism and Sexual Life (Hardcover, New)
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Celibacies - American Modernism and Sexual Life (Hardcover, New)
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In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history
of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality
with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much
more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality.
"Celibacies" focuses on a diverse group of authors, social
activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry
James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy
Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of
celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism
and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of
celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious
conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political
protest and artistic experimentation. "Celibacies" offers an
entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity
and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and
constitution of sexuality.
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