Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism

ISBN-13: 9780415911733 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 296 str.

Paula Bennett

Opis

This text addresses masturbation, exploring both the history and artistic representation of autoeroticism. On the one hand, it is the subject of much popular treatment, especially in sexual self-help books, advice columns and in popular culture. On the other hand, masturbation is still a taboo subject for most people in every day conversation. Analyzing representations of autoeroticism from the 16th century to the present, the study establishes masturbation and related issues of sexual fantasy and sexual autonomy as subjects of importance for cultural history, gender studies, and the history of literature and art.

Recenzje

"...a queer theory paean to masturbation... Joycelyn ELders would approve." -- OUT
"Obviously auteroticism deserves to finally be seriously examined in today's climate of sex-related danger, and that end is accomplished very well in this text." -- Gay Chicago Magazine
"The first anthology...that deals extensively with masturbation, Solitary Pleasures keeps Routledge on the publishing cutting edge of contemporary avant garde social and cultural theory." -- The San Diego Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgments/Paula Bennett £sf Vernon A. Rosario II, M.D. -- Introduction: The Politics of Solitary Pleasures/1. Laura Weigert -- Autonomy as Deviance: Sixteenth-Century Images of Witches and Prostitutes/2. Kelly Dennis -- Playing with Herself: Feminine Sexuality and Aesthetic Indifference/3. Roy Porter -- Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice/4. Vernon A . Rosario II, M.D. -- Phantastical Pollutions: The Public Threat of Private Vice in France/5. Eve Kosofsky Sedgw ick -- Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl/6. Thomas W. Laqueur -- The Social Evil, the Solitary Vice, and Pouring Tea/7. Christopher Looby -- “The Roots of the Orchis, the Iuli of Chestnuts”: The Odor of Male Solitude/8. Paula Bennett -- “Pomegranate-Flowers”: The Phantasmic Productions of Late-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Poets/9. Lawrence R. Schehr -- Fragments of a Poetics: Bonnetain and Roth/10. Roger Celestin -- Can Robinson Crusoe Find True Happiness (Alone)? BeVond the Genitals and 1 liston* on the Island of Hope/11. EarlJackson Jr. -- Coming in Handy: The J/O Spectacle and the Gay Male Subject in .Almodovar -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

O autorze

Paula Bennett is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Vernon A. Rosario II is Instructor in the History of Science at Harvard College, and an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School.