This text draws together ten important essays which use a variety of approaches and materials to explore the significance of sexuality in Shakespeare's work.
Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona (1510?56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but nev…
Sexuality & space
by Bloomer, Jennifer, Colomina, Beatriz
fromPrinceton papers on architecture
Essays gegroepeerd rondom het onderwerp gender in relatie tot de architectonische en kritische theorie. (Symposiumverslag van de Princeton University school of architecture).
Sexuality & space
by Bloomer, Jennifer, Colomina, Beatriz
fromPrinceton papers on architecture
"Feelings of sexual desire, attraction, and lust play an important role in human lives and in many human relationships. Pamela C. Regan and Ellen Berscheid have written an accessible, interdisciplinary book that reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire…
Accessibly written, this interdisciplinary book reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the individual physical and mental factors that influence the experience of sexual desire (hormones, age, gender, beliefs, mood), the various partner characterist…
Covering the theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the authors use findings from research on sexual and romantic attraction. The book also explores the individual physical and mental factors that influence sexual desire.
The author explores the intimate relationships that contributed to Walt Whitman's imagination of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, the poet was trying to tempe…
Whereas Education of the Senses focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not o…
In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance t…