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Law of Desire

José Quiroga
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Author : José Quiroga
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781551523507

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“This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press' new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed, obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas). In the twenty-plus years since its first release, Law of Desire has been acknowledged as redefining the way in which cinema can portray the difficult affective relationships between homosexuality, gender, and sex. Taking his cue from the golden age of Latin American, American, and European melodrama, Almodóvar created a sentimental yet hard-edged film that believes in the utopian possibilities for new relationships that redeem people from their despair. Since its release, Almodóvar has become an Oscar-winning filmmaker who regularly delves into issues of sexuality, gender, and identity. This book examines the political and social context in which Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.

Law of Desire

Shahla Haeri
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Author : Shahla Haeri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Muta
ISBN : OCLC:1388504702

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As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut'a, temporary marriage. Mut'a is legally sanctioned among the Twelver Shi'ites who live predominantly in Iran. Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropologist, the author describes the concept of a temporary-marriage contract, in which a man and an unmarried woman (virgin, widow, or divorcee) decide how long they want to stay married to each other (from one hour to ninety-nine years) and how much money is to be given to the temporary wife. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the regime has conduction an intensive campaign to revitalize this form of marriage, and Shi'i ulama (religious scholars) support it as positive, self-affirming, and cognizant of human needs. Challenged by secularly educated urban Iranian women, and men and by the West, the ulama have been called upon to address themselves to the implications of this custom for modern Iranian society, to respond to the changes that mut'a is legally equivalent to hire or lease, that it is abusive of women, and that it is in fact legalized prostitution. Law if Desire thus makes available previously untapped and undocumented data about an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. This important work will be of interest to cultural anthropologist, religious scholars, scholars of the Middle East, and lawyers as well as to those interested in the role of women in Islamic society.

The Law of the Lifegivers

Renaat Devisch,Claude Brodeur
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Author : Renaat Devisch,Claude Brodeur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9057024225

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Devisch and Brodeur bring together investigations of the Yaka people of Congo, describing the different life-giving or life-threatening roles which function in this society, such as sorcerer, diviner, therapist, and chief.

The Law of Desire

Dany Nobus
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Author : Dany Nobus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319552750

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This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed roadmap for each section of the essay, including clarifications of the allusions, implicit borrowings and references in Lacan’s text, unique insights into the essay’s publication history, and a critical assessment of its reception. The author expertly defines key terms, explains complex theoretical arguments, and contextualises the work within a larger philosophical discourse. No prior knowledge of Lacan, Kant or Sade is assumed, allowing both newcomers and those who are well-versed in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism to benefit from the book. This engaging book clears the path for a long overdue re-discovery and a proper appreciation of one of Lacan’s most challenging works, inspiring a renewed debate on the significance of Lacanian psychoanalysis for moral philosophy and literary theory.

THE LAW OF DESIRE RULINGS ON SEX AND SEXUALITY IN INDIA

Madhavi Menon
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Author : Madhavi Menon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354472141

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Description Can a woman choose whom to marry if her father disapproves of the match? Does sex remain sex when it becomes work? Can a man become a woman because he feels like one? Is it the law's task to ensure heterosexuality? Does reproduction need to be regulated? The State attempts, with law as its instrument, to answer these questions for us, through legislation and, when contested, through court judgments. This brilliantly insightful and superbly argued book calls into serious question the wisdom-indeed, the intent-of our lawmakers and the judiciary. Though India's laws and courts claim to know what they mean when they declare an expression of desire immoral or criminal, obscene or unnatural, upon inquiry, they turn out to be building on very weak and often casteist and patriarchal assumptions. Thus we have the law struggling to 'rescue' 'fallen women', for sex work cannot be work, but a sign of immorality; a Supreme Court judge can exonerate the artist M.F. Husain on charges of obscenity, but also claim that 'obscenity lies in the eyes of the beholder', leaving us wondering how, then, the law can ever define what's obscene; and while a court may declare that the 'third gender' has fundamental rights, no one really knows what fundamental rights have to do with gender in the first place. Teacher and queer theorist Madhavi Menon-author of Infinite Variety, a celebrated study of desire in India-shows us the 'conundrums and paradoxes' that result when the law is entangled with sex and sexuality-and why we 'need to play with, rather than stay with, the Law of Desire'.

The Boundaries of Desire

Eric Berkowitz
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Author : Eric Berkowitz
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781619026469

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The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another. Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fast–moving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity. Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the "sexual revolution" and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality. By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance – on the left and right –– more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catch–all solutions.

The Political Economy of Desire

Jennifer Beard
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Author : Jennifer Beard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135309978

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Containing the best interdisciplinary work in international law, this book offers an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of the genealogy of Western capitalist ‘development’. Putting forth ground-breaking arguments and challenging the traditional boundaries of thinking about the concept of development and underdevelopment, it provides readers with a new perspective on the West's relationship with the rest of the world. With Jennifer Beard’s departure from the common position that development and underdevelopment are conceptual outcomes of the Imperialist era, The Political Economy of Desire positions the genealogy of development within early Christian writings in which the Western theological concepts of sin, salvation and redemption are expounded. Drawing upon legal theory, anthropology, economics, historiography, philosophy of science, theology, feminism, cultural studies and development studies the author explores: the link between the writings of early theologians and the processes of modern identity formation – tracing the concept of development to a particularly Christian dynamic how the promise of salvation continues to influence Western ontology. An innovative and topical work, this volume is an essential read for those interested in international law and socio-legal theory.

Law's Desire

Carl Stychin
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Author : Carl Stychin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135095321

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The law is one of the primary means through which sexuality is constructed, monitored and controlled. In this much needed book, Carl Stychin provides a critical examination of the relationship between law and sexual orientation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The author exposes the connection between the law and sexual control through an exploration of key questions of current interest and controversy. He examines the motivations behind legal restrictions, and the impact on sexual subcultures and dominant society.

Desire Unlimited

Paul Julian Smith
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Author : Paul Julian Smith
Publisher : Verso
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1859847781

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The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe.

Methods of Desire

Aurora Donzelli
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Author : Aurora Donzelli
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824880477

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Since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia has undergone a radical program of administrative decentralization and neoliberal reforms. In Methods of Desire, author Aurora Donzelli explores these changes through an innovative perspective—one that locates the production of neoliberalism in novel patterns of language use and new styles of affect display. Building on almost two decades of fieldwork, Donzelli describes how the growing influence of transnational lending agencies is transforming the ways in which people desire and voice their expectations, intentions, and entitlements within the emergent participatory democracy and restructuring of Indonesia’s political economy. She argues that a largely overlooked aspect of the Era Reformasi concerns the transition from a moral regime centered on the expectation that desires should remain hidden to a new emphasis on the public expression of individuals’ aspirations. The book examines how the large-scale institutional transformations that followed the collapse of the Suharto regime have impacted people’s lives and imaginations in the relatively remote and primarily rural Toraja highlands of Sulawesi. A novel concept of the individual as a bundle of audible and measurable desires has emerged, one that contrasts with the deep-rooted reticence toward the expression of personal preferences. The spreading of foreign discursive genres such as customer satisfaction surveys, training sessions, electoral mission statements, and fundraising auctions, and the diffusion of new textual artifacts such as checklists, flowcharts, and workflow diagrams are producing forms of citizenship, political participation, and moral agency that contrast with the longstanding epistemologies of secrecy typical of local styles of knowledge and power. Donzelli’s long-term ethnographic study examines how these foreign protocols are being received, absorbed, and readapted in a peripheral community of the Indonesian archipelago. Combining a telescopic perspective on our contemporary moment with a microscopic analysis of conversational practices, the author argues that the managerial forms of political rationality and the entrepreneurial morality underwriting neoliberal apparatuses proliferate through the working of small cogs, that is, acts of speech. By examining these concrete communicative exchanges, she sheds light on both the coherence and inconsistency underlying the worldwide diffusion of market logic to all domains of life.

The Decision of Desire

Silvia Lippi
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Author : Silvia Lippi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781452962917

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A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance Of all of Lacan’s reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse, the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings’ relation to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de force that engages works by surrealists such as André Breton, canonical writers like William Faulkner and James Joyce, and the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Baruch Spinoza, The Decision of Desire is groundbreaking in its proposal that each of us can seek out and reimagine our relation to the infinite aporias of desire and thereby detach from its destructive, repetitive forms in favor of joy and affirmation. Providing insight to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. For if desire is always already that of the Other and the unconscious, and also a decision that escapes our consciousness of ourselves, how can we assume an ethical relation to it that avoids the vicious circle of disappointment, neurosis, and destruction? Such is the decision of desire attempted within Silvia Lippi’s profound development of a contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

Law of Desire [Desire, Oklahoma 13]

Leah Brooke
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Author : Leah Brooke
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642432923

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[Siren Menage Everlasting: Contemporary Menage a Trois Romantic Suspense Romance, M/F/M, spanking, sex toys, HEA] Krystal Kane lived with memories of the men she loved and been forced by family obligations to push away. Her fantasies kept her going, but she knew that the two men who wanted to share her couldn't want any more than an affair. When her mother died, she wanted nothing more than to get away, not wanting to hear from them the words that would end the fantasy. Needing them more than ever, she fought the overwhelming desire to call them, only to look up, and find them standing there. Rafe Delgatto and Linc Barrett had waited for Krystal for years, unable to forget the woman who'd stolen their hearts. They rushed to her side as soon as they learned she needed them, and quickly whisked her to the home they'd made for her. She could heal in Desire, Oklahoma, while they proved to her that their love was real--and protect her from a threat they hadn't anticipated. Leah Brooke is a Siren-exclusive author.

The Intersection of Law and Desire

J.M. Redmann
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Author : J.M. Redmann
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602823617

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It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knight’s life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey. In Cissy’s sleepless nights, Micky sees echoes of her own past, and she becomes caught up in a world where young girls are treated as commodities. While doing battle with seedy thugs and struggling to hold on to her rocky relationship with Dr. Cordelia James, Micky travels between the uptown opulence of the Sans Parel Club, one of New Orleans’s exclusive private clubs, and a tawdry hole of a bar near the Desire Projects. Evil exists in both places, and the mystery culminates where law and desire intersect. The third book in the Micky Knight mystery series.

Cartographies of Desire

Gregory M. Pflugfelder
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Author : Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520251656

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"A remarkable and sorely needed synthesis of the best of traditional historiographical documentation and critically astute analysis and contextualization. Cartographies complements and, frankly, exceeds any of the English language monographs on similar topics that precede it, and it represents significant contributions to several fields outside of East Asian history, including literature, gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, and cultural studies."—Earl Jackson Jr., author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay male Representation and Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany

Feminine Law

Jill Gentile,Michael Macrone
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Author : Jill Gentile,Michael Macrone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429913686

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Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process, it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or "gap" for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space, intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association, enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a "feminine law," we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable, between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common, besides the word "free"? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions, and more, in their wide-ranging, often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers.