Bodies and Pleasures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies and Pleasures write by Ladelle McWhorter. This book was released on 1999-07-22. Bodies and Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual identity into her readings of Foucault's most recent writings on sexuality and power, McWhorter argues compellingly that Foucault's texts should be read less for the arguments they advance and more for their transformative effect. By exploring bodies and pleasures—gardening, line dancing, or doing philosophy, for example—McWhorter shows that it isn't necessary to conform with socially recognized sexual identities. Bodies and Pleasures takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as it points the way toward a personal politics, ethics, and style that challenges our sexual selves.
Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions
Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions write by Richard G. Parker. This book was released on 2009-09-18. Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Originally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, together with the analysis of historical and literary texts, anthropologist Richard Parker mapped out the multiple cultural systems that structure gender, sexuality, and erotic practices in Brazil, and helped to open up a new wave of social science research on sexuality. Using ethnographic methods focusing on sexual meanings as an alternative to traditional surveys of sexual behavior, Parker argues that sexual life can only be fully understood through an analysis of the cultural logics that shape experience. Drawing on the tradition of interpretive anthropology, he focuses on the diverse sexual scripts that have been articulated in Brazilian culture and examines the often contradictory ways in which these scripts shape the sexual experience of different individuals. He highlights the sexual socialization of children and young people, and the changing sexual realities of adults living in a rapidly changing world. He underlines the ways in which complex cultural forms such as carnaval can be understood as stories that Brazilians tell themselves about themselves and about the meaning of sexuality in contemporary Brazilian life.
Sacred Pleasure
Sacred Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Pleasure write by Riane Eisler. This book was released on 2012-01-03. Sacred Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures write by Clarice Lispector. This book was released on 2022-05-03. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”
Arousal
Arousal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arousal write by Martha Roth. This book was released on 1998. Arousal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging yet intimate look at the contradictions of sexual desire, this book blends personal history with thoughtful reflection about the mysterious nature of sexual arousal and its personal and social implications.
