Michel Foucault's 'The History of Sexuality' pioneered queer theory. In it he builds an argument grounded in a historical analysis of the word "sexuality" against the common thesis that sexuality always has been repressed in Western society. Quite the contrary: since the 17th ce…
Michel Foucault's 'The History of Sexuality' pioneered queer theory. In it he builds an argument grounded in a historical analysis of the word "sexuality" against the common thesis that sexuality always has been repressed in Western society. Quite the contrary: since the 17th ce…
Do You Know ... where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? Why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages? How the custom of kissing began? Whether there really was a female pope? Why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince? The answers to thes…
Bevat o.a. de lemma's 'Amazonen' en 'Lesbiennes'
Do You Know...where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? Why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages? How the custom of kissing began? Whether there really was a female pope? Why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince? The answers to these …
"Do You Know ... where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? Why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages? How the custom of kissing began? Whether there really was a female pope? Why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince? The answers to the…
"This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex - of a "jungle fever"--In early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume the status of interrogating, of re-envisioning, rather than simply restaging the sc…
Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.
Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.
For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work arou…
Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.
Bijdragen van feministische wetenschappers over de wijze waarop vrouwen uit verschillende religies en culturen seksualiteit omschrijven en ervaren. Bevat: Good sex: beyond private pleasure / door Grace M. Jantzen; The muslim religious right ("Fundamentalists") and sexuality / do…
A collection of essays by scholars of religion, and women's studies, from a wide range of cultures, explore what feminists have to contribute to the understanding and embodiment of good sex in a globalized world.
A collection of essays by scholars of religion, and women's studies, from a wide range of cultures, explore what feminists have to contribute to the understanding and embodiment of good sex in a globalized world.
