Genealogies of Identity : Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality.

Genealogies of Identity : Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality.

Genealogies of Identity examines issues of sex and sexuality across a range of critical and cultural perspectives. The volume considers historically specific discourses of sex and sexuality, their effect within public contexts such as the church and the workplace, and the link of those discourses to...

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Main Author: Breen, Margaret Sonser
Other Authors: Peters, Fiona
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005.
Series:At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, 26.
Subjects:
Sex role > Congresses.
Gender identity > Congresses.
Gender identity
Sex role
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures; Preface; PART I: History, Sex, and Nation; Kertbeny's "Homosexuality" and the Language of Nationalism; Prostitution, Sexuality, and Gender Roles in Imperial Germany: Hamburg, A Case Study; Cultural Clash on Prostitution: Debates on Prostitution in Germany and Sweden in the 1990s; "Staying Bush"
  • The Influence of Place and Isolation in the Decision by Gay Men to Live in Rural Areas in Australia; PART II: Literature: Re-writing Desire; Whoring, Incest, Duplicity, or the "Self-Polluting" Erotics of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders.
  • Catastrophic Sexualities in Howard Barker's Theatre of TransgressionUn-sacred Cows and Protean Beings: Suniti Namjoshi's Re-writing of Postcolonial Lesbian Bodies; Desire-less-ness; PART III: Bodies: Representations of Gender Identities; Underneath the Clothes
  • Transvestites without Vests: A Consideration in Art; Of Swords and Rings: Genital Representation as Defining Sexual Identity and Sexual Liberation in Some Old French Fabliaux and Lais; Only with You
  • Maybe
  • If You Make Me Happy: A Genealogy of Serial Monogamy as Governance Self-Governance.
  • PART IV: Legality, Bureaucracy, Religion, and SexualityA Project for Sexual Rights: Sexuality, Power, and Human Rights; International Law, Children's Rights, and Queer Youth; Acting Like a Professional: Identity Dilemmas for Gay Men; How Big is Your God? Queer Christian Social Movements; Notes on Contributors.

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