Gender, Pleasure, and Violence - 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 Gender, Pleasure, and Violence write by Agnieszka Kościańska. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Gender, Pleasure, and Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.
Sexual Violence during War and Peace
Sexual Violence during War and Peace - 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 Sexual Violence during War and Peace write by J. Boesten. This book was released on 2014-04-16. Sexual Violence during War and Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to sexual violence in wartime are conditional upon profound changes in legal frameworks and practices, institutions, and society at large.
Obscene Pedagogies
Obscene Pedagogies - 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 Obscene Pedagogies write by Carissa M. Harris. This book was released on 2018-12-15. Obscene Pedagogies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure
Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of 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 Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure write by Susie Jolly. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over-emphasizing these negative aspects has dovetailed with conservative ideologies that associate women’s sexualities with danger and fear. On the other hand, the media, the pharmaceutical industry, and pornography more broadly celebrate the pleasures of sex in ways that can be just as oppressive, often implying that only certain types of people - young, heterosexual, able-bodied, HIV-negative - are eligible for sexual pleasure. Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure brings together challenges to these strictures and exclusions from both the South and North of the globe, with examples of activism, advocacy and programming which use pleasure as an entry point. It shows how positive approaches to pleasure and sexuality can enhance equality and empowerment for all.
The Feminist and the Sex Offender
The Feminist and the Sex Offender - 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 The Feminist and the Sex Offender write by Judith Levine. This book was released on 2020-04-28. The Feminist and the Sex Offender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration, The Feminist and the Sex Offender makes a powerful feminist case for accountability without punishment and sexual safety and pleasure without injustice. With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state’s unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it on the other. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse? Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse possible? Drawing on interviews, extensive research, reportage, and history, The Feminist and the Sex Offender develops an intersectional feminist approach to ending sexual violence. It maps with considerable detail the unjust sex offender regime while highlighting the alternatives we urgently need.
