Asian American Sexual Politics explores beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. Drawing on sixty in-depth interviews, the book shows how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality reinforce the social and political dominance for whites and exp…
In this final volume of his series, the author looks at the art created during the Victorian decades, including the work of Flaubert, Cézanne, Picasso, Stravinsky, Shaw, Ibsen, and Zola.
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…
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A history of sexual attitudes and practices in 20th century Germany, 'Sex After Fascism' also demonstrates how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust.
"Sex after Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in twentieth-century German history. Among other things, it changes the way we understand the immense popular appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the consolidation of po…
"Sex after Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in twentieth-century German history. Among other things, it changes the way we understand the immense popular appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the consolidation of po…
Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called "battle of the sexes" is intensified by the use of misogyny to encourage men and boys to conform to the demands of masculinit…
This volume provides a contribution to the understanding of the contemporary state of sexuality and its political, personal and social implications. It considers the changing attitudes to homosexuality and heterosexuality.
"This book provides a critical examination of the central debates attached to conceptualizing sexuality as a site of knowledge and politics. These are explored in chapters on the meaning of heterosexuality, sexual citizenship and the associated notions of sexual rights and oblig…