Reading Sexualities

Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet po

Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet po

This is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings, discussions of changing sexual ideology, and evidence of belief structures regarding family, religion, science, crime, and deviance. While broad in overall scope and coverage, the transformations are framed to highlight the narrative of change over time within each domain. By emphasizing the interrelationship between practices and ideological change - in family form, religious organization, medical logic, legal structures, and notions of deviancy - Katherine Crawford's accessible survey reveals how these changes produced the conditions in which our modern notions of sexuality were developed. This book will be essential reading for students of early modern European history and the history of sexuality.

In this dynamic collection of essays, literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and US Latino literary and cultural texts, ranging historically, from the 17th through

★ 第一本集體書寫的臺灣性別文學史 ★性是權力的根源，文學是社會革新的力量寫給每一顆騷動心靈的臺灣．性啟蒙讀本！從女鬼到女人，從同志到酷兒，從Me too到Me only，21位作家學者深入歷史迷霧，接力傳遞的文學革命暗語。 臺灣性別運動跨度百年，從傳統禮教下男尊女卑的困境中萌芽，在性別平權的艱困道路上奮力搏鬥，進而拓展出性別流動的燦爛風景，春光乍現。在性別運動中，文學時常扮演關鍵性的角色，成為改變社會的先聲與契機；文學，蘊含反抗者的意志。 這是一段屬於臺灣的性別文學故事，從暗黑到光亮，從陰間到陽間，從壓抑到解放，反抗者重重穿越，接力突破。這是一座性別意識的花園，有交纏掙扎的林投叢、從異域移植的絢爛櫻花，以及號稱堅忍不拔的梅花，而曾閃躲至角落的玫瑰少年，也終於在向光植物的世界中，嗅聞到下一層歷史簾幕的百合香氛。 透過性別，我們始能洞悉自己，在性別意識綻放的島嶼上，坦然自在做你自己。新世紀的性別文學讀本《性別島讀》，獻給每一位不懈探尋自我而獨一無二的你。本書特色★國立臺灣文學館特展超進化21位作家學者穿越「可讀．性」展間時空，串起追求平等與解放的跨世紀物語。★性別文學秘境的全方位指南時間橫跨清末、日治、戰後至21世紀，領域囊括傳說、小說、散文、詩與劇場。★文青必備的性別社會透視鏡關注制度壓抑、創作者的書寫介入，以及從邊緣反抗的性別運動等全面現象。

“Outstanding. One of the best examinations of the dissonance between official sexual ideologies and actual social and cultural practices I have had the pleasure of reading.”—David William Foster, auth

Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt po

The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and aesthetic and cultural issues. The book is inclusive in method, demonstrating, for example, the benefits of both distant and close reading approaches, and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti and over one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women's poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context. Essays shed light on children's poetry, domestic relations, sexualities, and stylistic artifice and conclude by looking at how women poets placed their published poems and how we can 'place' Victorian women poets today.

The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and aesthetic and cultural issues. The book is inclusive in method, demonstrating, for example, the benefits of both distant and close reading approaches, and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti and over one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women's poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context. Essays shed light on children's poetry, domestic relations, sexualities, and stylistic artifice and conclude by looking at how women poets placed their published poems and how we can 'place' Victorian women poets today.

Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through reading

This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.

This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.