Orgasmology

Author : Annamarie Jagose
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822353911

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Orgasmology by Annamarie Jagose Pdf

For all its vaunted attention to sexuality, queer theory has had relatively little to say about sex, the material and psychic practices through which erotic gratification is sought. In Orgasmology, Annamarie Jagose takes orgasm as her queer scholarly object. From simultaneous to fake orgasms, from medical imaging to pornographic visualization, from impersonal sexual publics to domestic erotic intimacies, Jagose traces the career of orgasm across the twentieth century. Along the way, she examines marriage manuals of the 1920s and 1930s, designed to teach heterosexual couples how to achieve simultaneous orgasms; provides a queer reading of behavioral modification practices of the 1960s and 1970s, aimed at transforming gay men into heterosexuals; and demonstrates how representations of orgasm have shaped ideas about sexuality and sexual identity. A confident and often counterintuitive engagement with feminist and queer traditions of critical thought, Orgasmology affords fresh perspectives on not just sex, sexual orientation, and histories of sexuality, but also agency, ethics, intimacy, modernity, selfhood, and sociality. As modern subjects, we presume we already know everything there is to know about orgasm. This elegantly argued book suggests that orgasm still has plenty to teach us.

Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247299

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Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns by Valerie Traub Pdf

What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge. Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns leverages the notions of opacity and impasse to explore barriers to knowledge about sex in the past. Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding principle of historiography: sex may be good to think with, not because it permits us access but because it doesn't.

Author : Thomas Johansson,Soren Ervo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351759717

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Bending Bodies by Thomas Johansson,Soren Ervo Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. The contributing authors have sought to integrate a gender perspective into their respective fields without isolating it from other theoretical accounts. The chapters attempt to employ insights from feminist work and gender studies in general, yet insist on criticizing monolithic accounts of masculinity and elaborating on more differentiated, historically and socially embedded accounts of men's lives and their construction of masculinities. The volume is the result of interdisciplinary workshops focusing on questions of male sexuality, the male body and masculine representations - primarily investigating the relationship between change and continuity within western patriarchal society and the theoretical (rather than political) implications of the new reserach in men and masculinities. This volume differs from the first in that it deals with the construction of masculine identities on an individual level - the individual man's relationship with his own body and sexuality.

Author : Prakash Kothari,Rafi Patel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Orgasm
ISBN : UVA:X002496493

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Proceedings by Prakash Kothari,Rafi Patel Pdf

Author : Lee Wallace
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478009139

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Reattachment Theory by Lee Wallace Pdf

In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality—far from being the threat to “traditional” marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted—is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing on the history of marriage, Stanley Cavell's analysis of Hollywood comedies of remarriage, and readings of recent gay and lesbian films, Wallace shows that queer experiments in domesticity have reshaped the affective and erotic horizons of heterosexual marriage and its defining principles: fidelity, exclusivity, and endurance. Wallace analyzes a series of films—Dorothy Arzner's Craig's Wife (1936); Tom Ford's A Single Man (2009); Lisa Cholodenko's High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010); and Andrew Haigh's Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015)—that, she contends, do not simply reflect social and legal changes; they fundamentally alter our sense of what sexual attachment involves as both a social and a romantic form.

Author : Annamarie Jagose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136654558

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Lesbian Utopics by Annamarie Jagose Pdf

In Lesbian Utopics, Annamarie Jagose surveys the construction of the lesbian and finds her in a cultural space that is both everywhere and, of all places, nowhere. The "lesbian", in other words, is symbolically central, yet culturally marginal.

Author : Edward W. Eichel,Philip Nobile
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015061389774

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The Perfect Fit by Edward W. Eichel,Philip Nobile Pdf

Eichel introduces the Coital Alignment Technique (C.A.T.) which enables women to achieve orgasm regularly, intensifies climax and frequently produces simultaneous orgasm.

Author : Lynn Comella
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372677

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Vibrator Nation by Lynn Comella Pdf

In the 1970s a group of pioneering feminist entrepreneurs launched a movement that ultimately changed the way sex was talked about, had, and enjoyed. Boldly reimagining who sex shops were for and the kinds of spaces they could be, these entrepreneurs opened sex-toy stores like Eve’s Garden, Good Vibrations, and Babeland not just as commercial enterprises, but to provide educational and community resources as well. In Vibrator Nation Lynn Comella tells the fascinating history of how these stores raised sexual consciousness, redefined the adult industry, and changed women's lives. Comella describes a world where sex-positive retailers double as social activists, where products are framed as tools of liberation, and where consumers are willing to pay for the promise of better living—one conversation, vibrator, and orgasm at a time.

Author : MelissaHardie,MeaghanMorris,KaneRace
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253068187

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The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies by MelissaHardie,MeaghanMorris,KaneRace Pdf

The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.

Author : Karli June Cerankowski,Megan Milks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134692460

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Asexualities by Karli June Cerankowski,Megan Milks Pdf

What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume, the authors expand this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, disability, and medical discourse. Together, these essays challenge the ways in which we imagine gender and sexuality in relation to desire and sexual practice. Asexualities provides a critical reevaluation of even the most radical queer theorizations of sexuality. Going beyond a call for acceptance of asexuality as a legitimate and valid sexual orientation, the authors offer a critical examination of many of the most fundamental ways in which we categorize and index sexualities, desires, bodies, and practices. As the first book-length collection of critical essays ever produced on the topic of asexuality, this book serves as a foundational text in a growing field of study. It also aims to reshape the directions of feminist and queer studies, and to radically alter popular conceptions of sex and desire. Including units addressing theories of asexual orientation; the politics of asexuality; asexuality in media culture; masculinity and asexuality; health, disability, and medicalization; and asexual literary theory, Asexualities will be of interest to scholars and students in sexuality, gender, sociology, cultural studies, disability studies, and media culture.

Author : Greg Bird,Giovanbattista Tusa
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262544337

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Dispositif by Greg Bird,Giovanbattista Tusa Pdf

A ground-breaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought. Dispositif is one of the most prevalent yet elusive terms in contemporary thought. This comprehensive anthology brings together formative, seminal, and contemporary texts and visual applications to illuminate how central dispositifs are to contemporary theory. Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa’s selection and placement of critical texts invite readers to explore common themes and genealogies, different interpretations and readings, and their diverse deployments across multiple disciplines and genres by such figures as Karl Marx, Franz Kafka, Judith Butler, Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Jasbir Puar, Donna Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Tiqqun, Claire Fontaine, and many others. Dispositif: A Cartography is a true toolbox for the development of technological ecology thinking that accounts for situated knowledge. This collection provides coordinates for reorienting oneself in a permanently changing world, offering possible roadmaps for navigating these profoundly uncertain times. More than just a compilation of interventions on the dispositif, this volume acts as a guide for understanding the complex interaction between technology, philosophy, and the languages of the arts and media.

Author : Benjamin Kahan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226608006

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The Book of Minor Perverts by Benjamin Kahan Pdf

Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Assocation Book Prize Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of sexual classification that arose with the advent of nineteenth-century sexology. The book narrates the shift from Foucault’s “thousand aberrant sexualities” to one: homosexuality. The focus here is less on the effects of queer identity and more on the lines of causation behind a surprising array of minor perverts who refuse to fit neatly into our familiar sexual frameworks. The result stands at the intersection of history, queer studies, and the medical humanities to offer us a new way of feeling our way into the past.

Author : Jacinthe Flore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030394233

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A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences by Jacinthe Flore Pdf

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused on the emergence of sexual identities and categories of desire. They have marginalised questions of excess and lack, the appearance of a libido that dwindles or intensifies, which became a pathological object in Europe by the nineteenth century. Through a genealogical approach that draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences examines key ‘moments’ in the pathologisation of sexuality and demonstrates how medical techniques assumed critical roles in shaping modern understandings of the problem of appetite. It examines how techniques of the patient case history, elixirs and devices, measurement, diagnostic manuals and pharmaceuticals were central to the medicalisation of sexual appetite. Jacinthe Flore argues that these techniques are significant for understanding how a concern with ‘how much?’ has transformed medical knowledge of sexuality since the nineteenth century. The questions of ‘how much?’, ‘how often?’ and ‘how intense?’ thus require a genealogical investigation that pays attention to the emergence of medical techniques, the transformation of forms of knowledge and their effects on the problematisations of sexual appetite.

Author : Florence Haseltine,Sandra S. Cole,David B. Gray
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Handicapped parents
ISBN : UOM:39015032926381

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Reproductive Issues for Persons with Physical Disabilities by Florence Haseltine,Sandra S. Cole,David B. Gray Pdf

Author : John Money
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015046902121

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Sin, Science, and the Sex Police by John Money Pdf

John Money is widely regarded as the foremost theoretician of human sexual relations in the twentieth century. Sin, Science, and the Sex Police is the latest in a compelling series of his selected writings on the subjects of sexology (the science of sex) and sexosophy (the philosophy of sex).