The Body's Perilous 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 The Body's Perilous Pleasures write by Michele Aaron. This book was released on 1999. The Body's Perilous Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing upon contemporary film and fiction, The Body's Perilous Pleasures is an investigation of the nature of the body and the manner in which it figures in transvestism, cyborgs and female desire, body piercing, AIDS and reincarnation.
Bodies and Pleasures
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.
Now You See It
Now You See It - 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 Now You See It write by Richard Dyer. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Now You See It available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990. Placing the book within lesbian and gay film history, Dyer examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D’Amour and Word is Out in their lesbian/gay context, as well as bringing to light many other forgotten, but remarkable films. Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition, and the sexual subculture in which it was made. Now featuring a brand new introduction by Juliane Pidduck, this will be an excellent aid to cinema and film studies courses.
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature - 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 Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature write by Kathryn James. This book was released on 2009-02-10. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses these methodological and contextual gaps. Focusing on texts produced since the late-1980s, and drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Kathryn James shows how representations of death in young adult literature are invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender, and power. Under particular scrutiny are the trope of woman/death, the eroticizing and sexualizing of death, and the ways in which the gendered subject is represented in dialogue with the processes of death, dying, and grief. Through close readings of historical literature, fantasy fictions, realistic novels, dead-narrator tales, and texts from genres including Gothic, horror, and post-disaster, James reveals not only how cultural discourses influence and are influenced by literary works, but how relevant the study of death is to adolescent fiction--the literature of "becoming."
Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality
Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality - 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 Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality write by M. Shildrick. This book was released on 2009-08-28. Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.
