Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780230283688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Sarah Toulalan; Kate Fisher

Opis

Franz Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity that first posits a clearcut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up freedom as an ideal which, conceived in such absolute terms, is by definition unattainable.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; S.Toulalan PART I: BODIES AND DIFFERENCE 'That ere with Age, his Strength is Utterly Decay'd': Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern Manhood; J.Jordan Confusion Embodied: Epistemologies of Sex and Race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-9) and the Histoire Naturelle (1749-1804); A.Wells The Hermaphrodite, Fecundity and Military Efficiency: Dangerous Subjects in the Emerging Liberal order of Nineteenth-Century Spain; R.Cleminson  & F.Vazquez Garcia Touching Bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century Medical Photographs and Models; E.Stephens 'Farewell to Frocks', 'Sex Change' in Interwar Britain: Newspaper Stories, Medical Technology and Modernity; A.Oram 'Perversity to Match the Curtains': Queering the Life Story with Grayson Perry; M.Jolly PART II: BODIES, SEX AND DESIRE 'Unripe' Bodies: Children and Sex in Early Modern England; S.Toulalan Urge without Desire? Confession Manuals, Moral Casuistry, and the Features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries; F.Alfieri On the Unsteadiness of Sexual Truth in Eighteenth-Century France; P.Cryle 'Lay back, Enjoy it and Shout Happy England': Marital Duty and Sexual Pleasure; K.Fisher Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology; L.Downing Sadism as Social Violence: From fin-de-siècle Degeneration to the Critiques of Nazi Sexuality in Frankfurt School Thought; A.Moore

O autorze

FERNANDA ALFIERI Researcher, the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Centre for Italo-Germanic Studies, Trento, Italy PETER CRYLE Professor of French and Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, the University of Queensland, Australia LISA DOWNING Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), the University of Exeter, UK KATE FISHER Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Exeter, UK FRANCISCO VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA Professor of Philosophy, the University of Cadiz, Spain MARGARETTA JOLLY Director, the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, the University of Sussex, UK JENNIFER JORDAN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Department of History, University of Plymouth, UK ALISON MOORE Postdoctoral Researcher, the University of Queensland, Australia ALISON ORAM Professor in Social and Cultural History, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK ELIZABETH STEPHENS ARC Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, the University of Queensland, Australia SARAH TOULALAN Senior Lecturer in Medical History, the University of Exeter, UK ANDREW WELLS Teaching Fellow in the History of Ideas, the University of Edinburgh, UK