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Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...
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Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India
ISBN: PB: 9780226348445, ISBN: HB: 9780226348308, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The "Kamasutra" is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In "Foucault and the Kamasutra"...
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£84,00
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Sexual Fields Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226084992, ISBN: HB: 9780226084855, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table
In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas...
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Bellissima Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780300176803, Yale University Press, July 2007
328 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.
"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...
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Manhood in the Making Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
ISBN: PB: 9780300050769, Yale University Press, July 1991
272 pp., 20.8x13.6 cm
In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness – on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality – is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousnes...
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