Negotiating Sexual Idioms

Image, Text, Performance

AvMarie-Luise Kohlke

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Del 53 i serien At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

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Beskrivning

Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance affords new theoretical approaches and insights into the complexity of sexual discourse pervading contemporary cultures, exploring sexuality’s role in dominant conceptualisations of self and society, in patterns of political belonging and exclusion, and in societal transformations. Opening with a substantial critical introduction, this collection of twelve essays and creative pieces contributes to significant current debates regarding sexual rights and their violation, queer theory and identity politics, sexual fantasy formations and strategies of pleasure, and the celebration of sexual diversity, topics explored through a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gender and film studies, religious philosophy, neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature, sociology, pornography, and performance art. The volume positions the subjects of sex and sexuality as crucial to our ethical understanding of the human, both in individual and communal terms, exploring how claims for sexual subjectivity and citizenship are formulated and the entitlements they entail. The analytical insights offered signal important new directions for critical engagement with the socio-political construction of sexuality and its strategic deployment within the cultural imaginary. Designed to appeal equally to scholars, students, and general readers, Negotiating Sexual Idioms will prove essential reading for those interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to reading sex and sexuality within inter-cultural contexts, from the early modern period to the present-day.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-01-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789042024915

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Konstformer inom Kultur
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Marie-Luise Kohlke is a contemporary literature specialist in neo-Victorian fiction and trauma narratives at Swansea University, Wales, and the General and Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Neo-Victorian Studies e-Journal.Luisa Orza is a writer and researcher in sexual and reproductive rights, with a special interest in power relations, gender, and the dynamics of negotiated dominance and submission.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsMarie-Luise KOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual IdiomsPART I Desiring Subjects and Sexual OthersIlana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”Tahseen BÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between UsJan Peterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representations of the HillbillyMarie-Luise KOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary FictionPART II Beings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse Shalmalee PALEKAR: Soma-Rasa Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on PornographyErzsébet BARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and DesireMarek M. WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Love beyond TranscendencePART III Sexibition, Power, and the GazeJennifer TYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of Sexual ArtefactsBenjamin JACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe’s First Modern Obscene Text Godwin SIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian FictionLuisa ORZA: One Notes on Contributors