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Book Eroticism and Containment

Download or read book Eroticism and Containment written by Carol Siegel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual confessions on television talk shows. Gender and medical discourse in colonial India. River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. White women in a German colony. Henry James' thwarted love. What do these seemingly diverse subjects have in common? All address, in different ways, social and cultural attempts to contain eroticism by delineating the perimeters of genders. They scrutinize the political investments in the construction of gender in such disparate locations as contemporary Hollywood, Renaissance England, colonial India and Africa, and in modern and contemporary homosexual discourse communities and in Freud's sessions with Dora. But whether the gendering of the subject follows the dictates of conservative politics or the radical agenda of a marginalized interest, the essays reveal the erotic overflow—the flood—that cannot be contained within any one gender identity. In examining how the erotic escapes containment, this work discloses problems inherent in the intersections of gender and desire. [ go to the Genders website ]

Book Sexuality and Containment  microform    Ling Mengchu s Erotic Stories

Download or read book Sexuality and Containment microform Ling Mengchu s Erotic Stories written by Lenny Lingyi Hu and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexuality and Containment  Ling Mengchu s Erotic Stories

Download or read book Sexuality and Containment Ling Mengchu s Erotic Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Causality and Containment in Seventeenth Century Chinese Fiction

Download or read book Causality and Containment in Seventeenth Century Chinese Fiction written by Keith McMahon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of features characterize late Ming vernacular fiction as part of the general cultural expansion of that period. These features centrally include the exposition of sexual transgression and the function of containment, by which is meant the ideology of the control of desires. The late Ming writers are studiously devoted to illustrating minute, obscene, or erotic details that belief the decorum of the orthodox surface. However, this subversiveness of detail decreases in intensity from the late Ming to the early Qing, when values of containment are reinvoked. Related topics are: the theme of causality and its role in the story's mapping of the logic of adultery; adultery as an emblem of the woman's escape from containment and the use of the narrative topos of the gap in the wall as a locus of sexual transgression.

Book Sexuality and Containment  Ling Mengchu s Erotic Stories

Download or read book Sexuality and Containment Ling Mengchu s Erotic Stories written by Lenny Lingyi Hu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a cultural study of a group of stories about illicit sex in the short story collections 'Pai'an jinqi' and ' Erke pai'an jingqi', both of which were written by the late Ming writer Ling Mengchu (1580-1644). The whole thesis consists of two parts: introduction and translation. The translation includes four erotic stories selected from these two collections and these four stories have never been rendered into English before (though some of them have French and German versions). The introduction, instead of a potpourri of rudimentary generalizations about the author and his works, is a monograph mainly focussed on a paradox of these stories, i.e., the tension between the presentation of sexual pleasure and its containment for a moral purpose. To give a convincing explanation to this tension, the thesis examines the context--the life of the author and the society in which he lived as much as it analyses the text--the aspects of sexuality and the repressive mechanisms the author imposed on his erotic descriptions. In so doing, it tries to demonstrate the eroticism in the way that may help understand not only how the principle of pleasure is related to the economic base of the late Ming but also how, owing to the functioning of the state ideology, it is morally contained, contrary to what has been assumed by some Western scholars (e.g. Foucault) that "pleasure is not considered in relation to an absolute law of the permitted and the forbidden, nor by reference to a criterion of utility, but first and foremost in relation to itself." And it is the conclusion of this thesis that these stories about illicit sex, erotic as they are, are actually mildly explicit in terms of sexual description, belonging, in its three-tier typological schema (i.e., the schema that divides late Ming erotic fiction into three basic kinds: lust, lust-love and lust-sex) of the late Ming erotica, to the category of "lust."

Book Control and Containment of American Women s Sexuality During W W II

Download or read book Control and Containment of American Women s Sexuality During W W II written by Marilyn E. Hegarty and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Limits of Eroticism in Post Petrarchan Narrative

Download or read book The Limits of Eroticism in Post Petrarchan Narrative written by Dorothy Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favour only those theories is to risk ignoring productive exchanges between 'masculine' and 'feminine' in Renaissance culture. 'Appropriation' is too simple a term to describe these exchanges - as when Petrarchan lovers flirt dangerously with potentially destructive femininity. Spenser revises this Petrarchan phenomenon, constructing flirtations whose participants are figures of speech, readers or narrative voices. His plots allow such exchanges to occur only through conditional speech, but this very conditionality powerfully shapes his work. Seventeenth-century works - including a comedy by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, and Upon Appleton House by Andrew Marvell - suggest that the civil war and the upsurge of female writers necessitated a reformulation of conditional erotics.

Book A New Kind of Containment

Download or read book A New Kind of Containment written by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses "containment" as it relates to interlocking discourses around the "War on Terror" as a global effort and its link to race and sexuality within the United States. The project emerged from the recognition that the events of 11 September 2001, prompted new efforts at containment with both domestic and international implications. Philosophy of Peace (POP), in conjunction with Concerned Philosophers for Peace, explores socio-political and ethical perspectives on modern warfare, peacemaking, and conflict resolution, including the many forms of domestic and global violence, such as sexism, racism, and classism.

Book A Queering of Black Theology

Download or read book A Queering of Black Theology written by E. Kornegay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.

Book Erotic Transference

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Celenza
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-07-29
  • ISBN : 1040034284
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Erotic Transference written by Andrea Celenza and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to this key, yet challenging aspect of the psychoanalytic process. Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process, Andrea Celenza highlights the sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and a tendency to desexualise psychoanalytic theorizing, which she posits is a result of the inherent threat erotic transferences can pose to the analyst. By providing a thorough overview of the topic, clarifying terminology, and providing vivid case examples, Celenza seeks to redress this omission. Throughout this volume, she discusses the interplay of power and gender, along with chapters on the temptation of disclosure and the disturbing prevalence of sexual boundary violations. Providing practitioners with the tools to deal with the intense feelings that inevitably arise with erotic transferences, this book is vital reading for all psychoanalysts at all levels of experience and seniority, psychodynamic practitioners, instructors, candidates, and trainees.

Book Shame  the Church and the Regulation of Female Sexuality

Download or read book Shame the Church and the Regulation of Female Sexuality written by Miryam Clough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shame strikes at the heart of human individuals rupturing relationships, extinguishing joy and, at times, provoking conflict and violence. This book explores the idea that shame has historically been, and continues to be, used by an oftentimes patriarchal Christian Church as a mechanism to control and regulate female sexuality and to displace men’s ambivalence about sex. Using a study of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries as a historical example, contemporary feminist theological and theoretical scholarship are utilised to examine why the Church as an institution has routinely colluded with the shaming of individuals, and moreover why women are consistently and overtly shamed on account of, and indeed take the blame for, sex. In addition, the text asks whether the avoidance of shame is in fact functional in men’s efforts to adhere to patriarchal gender norms and religious ideals, and whether women end up paying the price for the maintenance of this system. This book is a fresh take on the issue of shame and gender in the context of religious belief and practice. As such it will be of significant interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, but also History, Psychology and Gender Studies.

Book Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque

Download or read book Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque written by Emily Kuffner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established prescriptive mandates for female use of space, concentrating especially on the liminal spaces of the home. This work traces literary prostitution in the Spanish Mediterranean through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the rise of courtesan culture in several key areas through the shift from tolerance of prostitution toward repression. Kuffner's analysis pairs canonical and noncanonical works of fiction with didactic writing, architectural treatises, and legal mandates, tying the literary practice of prostitution to increasing control over female sexuality during the Counter Reformation. By tracing erotic negotiations in the female picaresque novel from its origins through later manifestations, she demonstrates that even as societal attitudes towards prostitution shifted dramatically, a countervailing tendency to view prostitution as an essential part of the social fabric undergirds many representations of literary prostitutes. Kuffner's analysis reveals that the semblance of domestic enclosure figures as a primary erotic strategy in female picaresque fiction, allowing readers to assess the variety of strategies used by authors to comment on the relationship between unruly female sexuality and social order.

Book Homeward Bound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elaine Tyler May
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2008-09-23
  • ISBN : 0786723467
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Homeward Bound written by Elaine Tyler May and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.

Book The Sexual Politics of Border Control

Download or read book The Sexual Politics of Border Control written by Billy Holzberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sexual Politics of Border Control conceptualises sexuality as a method of bordering and uncovers how sexuality operates as a key site for the containment, capture and regulation of movement. By bringing together queer scholarship on borders and migration with the rich archive of feminist, Black, Indigenous and critical border perspectives, it highlights how the heteronormativity of the border intersects with the larger dynamics of racial capitalism, imperialism and settler colonialism; reproductive inequalities; and the containment of contagion, disease and virality. Transnational in focus, this book includes contributions from and about different geopolitical contexts including histories of HIV in Turkey; the politics of reproduction in Palestine/Israel; settler colonialism and anti-Blackness in the United States; the sexual geographies of the Balkan and Southern Europe; the intimate politics of marriage migration between Vietnam and Canada; and sex work in Australia, the United States, France and New Zealand. This collection constitutes a key intervention in the study of border and migration that highlights the crucial role that sexual politics play in the reproduction and contestation of national border regimes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Book Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision

Download or read book Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision written by Biljana van Rijn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision addresses some of the challenges associated with sexual attraction in psychotherapy practice and supervision, as well as within services, and helps therapists, supervisors, and managers to navigate them with openness and self-reflection. The book focuses on practical and applied issues, using a relational humanistic-integrative theoretical approach as a backdrop for understanding. Split into three parts, it deals with issues related to clinical practice, supervision and ethical issues. Chapters support in-depth exploration in all three arenas of practice and are completed by editors providing a reflective summary. Enriched with case examples and research written by senior relational practitioners, the book will be beneficial to therapists, supervisors, and service managers in the field of psychotherapy.

Book Love  Sex  and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation

Download or read book Love Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation written by M. McLelland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War.

Book Pornography and Sexual Representation

Download or read book Pornography and Sexual Representation written by Joseph W. Slade and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2001 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three volume reference guide to the available literature concerning pornography and sexual representation in America.