Argues that men must interrogate their own sexuality in dialogue with women in order to revise phallocentric discourse. Drawing on a range of genres, cultures and theoretical perspectives, this examination questions the assumptions behind the representations of manhood in modern literature.
Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how ......
Incorporates autobiographical accounts to emphasise the complexity and symbolic nature of the 'velvet underground' of human sexuality. This work explores a variety of sub-worlds and identities: the professional dominatrix; prostitution and S and M; heterosexual, gay, and lesbian S and M; the role of pain and fantasy; and organised S and M groups.
Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality
This work argues that the debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communication. Chapters address such subjects as: gay political language; homosexuality and AIDs on prime-time television; the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction; and coming-out strategies.
Originally published in 1972 in France, Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire has become a classic in gay theory. Translated into English for the first time in 1978 and out of print since the early 1980s, this new edition, with an introduction by Michael Moon, will make available this vital and still relevant work to contemporary audiences. ......
Focuses on differences in the brain and mind, health and illness among men and women, and the different ways in which men and women experience emotion, with an emphasis on that most intense emotion of all - love. This book offers a fresh and insightful look at what makes men and women unique.
This book explores a central issue in the study of close relationships: the reevaluation of traditional gender roles to take into account what is both functional and optimal for people in dual-career relationships. The author discusses how many women and men are attempting to negotiate new realities at home and work, with each other and with the larger social structure. The expectations and realities of dual-career family life are examined, benefits of increased gender equity for both same-sex and heterosexual couples explored, and continuing obstacles and sources of stress identified.
This portrait of sexuality in close relationships presents an extensive examination of current theory and research. Contributors pay particular attention to sexual attitudes, behaviour, satisfaction and coercion, and discuss sexual patterns in several types of sexual relationship: dating, cohabiting, marital and homosexual. They show how sexual aspects of these relationships are related to other characteristics such as love and communication. Drawing material from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, communication and family studies, the volume also explores sexual standards, predictors of sexual attraction, sexual scripts, the initiation of sex and negotiating safe-sex behaviours.
The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century
William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson both kept journals which contained a series of observations revealing their fear and hatred of women. Lockridge leads us through these texts, exploring them in the wider historical context of gender and power, to illustrate early American patriarchal rage.
