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Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochismby Lynda HartISBN 023108403X (0-231-08403-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literatureby Byrne R. S. FoneISBN 0231096712 (0-231-09671-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0199267189 (0-19-926718-9)
Softcover, Clarendon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works'Book summary:The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works. [via]
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Creating Gi Jane: Sexuality and Power in Women's Army Corps During World War IIby Leisa D. MeyerISBN 0231101457 (0-231-10145-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britainby G.J. Barker-BenfieldISBN 0226037142 (0-226-03714-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Dance of a Fallen Monk: The Twists and Turns of a Spiritual Lifeby George FowlerISBN 0201409771 (0-201-40977-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Dark Twins: Imposture And Identity in Mark Twain's Americaby Susan GillmanISBN 0226293874 (0-226-29387-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in Americaby Leila J. RuppISBN 0226731561 (0-226-73156-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-Orientation in Film and Videoby Chris StraayerISBN 0231079796 (0-231-07979-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaretby Leila J. Rupp, Verta A. TaylorISBN 0226731588 (0-226-73158-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhoodby Fatima MernissiISBN 0201489376 (0-201-48937-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Eros and Magic in the Renaissanceby Ioan P. CulianuISBN 0226123162 (0-226-12316-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Renaissance magic, according to Ioan Couliano, was a scientifically plausible attempt to manipulate individuals and groups based on a knowledge of motivations, particularly erotic motivations. Its key principle was that everyone (and in a sense everything) could be influenced by appeal to sexual desire. In addition, the magician relied on a profound knowledge of the art of memory to manipulate the imaginations of his subjects. In these respects, Couliano suggests, magic is the precursor of the modern psychological and sociological sciences, and the magician is the distant ancestor of the psychoanalyst and the advertising and publicity agent.
In the course of his study, Couliano examines in detail the ideas of such writers as Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola and illuminates many aspects of Renaissance culture, including heresy, medicine, astrology, alchemy, courtly love, the influence of classical mythology, and even the role of fashion in clothing.
Just as science gives the present age its ruling myth, so magic gave a ruling myth to the Renaissance. Because magic relied upon the use of images, and images were repressed and banned in the Reformation and subsequent history, magic was replaced by exact science and modern technology and eventually forgotten. Couliano's remarkable scholarship helps us to recover much of its original significance and will interest a wide audience in the humanities and social sciences.More editions of Eros and Magic in the Renaissance:
Exploring Human Sexuality: Making Healthy Decisionsby Richard D. McAnulty, M. Michele BurnetteISBN 0205195199 (0-205-19519-9)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Feminism and the abyss of freedomby Linda ZerilliISBN 0226981347 (0-226-98134-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformityby Joshua GamsonISBN 0226280659 (0-226-28065-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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French Lieutenant's Womanby John FowlesISBN 0224616544 (0-224-61654-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Artby Leo BersaniISBN 0231062192 (0-231-06219-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Moviesby Molly HaskellISBN 0226318850 (0-226-31885-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Livesby Marianna TorgovnickISBN 0226808327 (0-226-80832-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poeticsby Bruce R. SmithISBN 0226763668 (0-226-76366-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics'Book summary:In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral philosophy, laws, and medical books in favor of a poetics of homosexual desire. Smith isolates six different "myths" from classical literature and discusses each in relation to a particular Renaissance literary genre and to a particular part of the social structure of early modern England. Smith's new Preface places his work in the context of the continuing controversies in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies.[via]
"The best single analysis of the homoerotic element in Renaissance English literature."Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books
"Smith's lucid and subtle book offer[s] a poetics of homosexual desire. . . . Its scholarship, impressively broad and deftly deployed, aims to further a serious social purpose: the redemptive location of homosexual desire in history and the recuperation for our own time, through an understanding of its discursive embodiments, of that desire's changing imperatives and parameters."Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
"The great strength of Bruce Smith's book is that it does not sidestep the complex challenge of engaging in the sexual politics of the present while attending to the resistant discourses and practices of Renaissance England. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England demonstrates how a commitment to the present opens up our understanding of the past."Peter Stallybrass, Shakespeare Quarterly
"A major contribution to the understanding of homosexuality in Renaissance England and by far the best and most comprehensive account yet offered of the homoeroticism that suffuses Renaissance literature."Claude J. Summers, Journal of HomosexualityMore editions of Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics:
Homosexuality and the Western Christian Traditionby D. Sherwin BaileyISBN 0208014926 (0-208-01492-6)
Hardcover, Shoe String Press, Incorporated
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Identitiesby Kwame Anthony Appiah, Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.ISBN 0226284395 (0-226-28439-5)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Identities'Book summary:The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies. Identities will help disrupt the cliché-ridden discourse of identity by exploring the formation of identities and problem of subjectivity.[via]
Leading scholars in literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy explore such topics as "Gypsies" in the Western imagination, the mobilization of the West in Chinese television, the lesbian identity and the woman's gaze in fashion photography, and the regulation of black women's bodies in early 20th-century urban areas. This collection of twenty articles brings together the special issue of Critical Inquiry entitled "Identities" (Summer 1992), two other previously published essays, and five previously published critical responses and rejoinders, all of which is interrogated in two new essays by Michael Gorra and Judith Butler.
Contributors include Elizabeth Abel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Akeel Bilgrami, Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin, Judith Butler, Hazel V. Carby, Xiaomei Chen, Diana Fuss, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Avery Gordon, Michael Gorra, Cheryl Herr, Saree S. Makdisi, Walter Benn Michaels, Christopher Newfield, Gananath Obeyesekere, Molly Anne Rothenberg, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sara Suleri, Katie Trumpener, and Joseph Valente.More editions of Identities:
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The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0224022601 (0-224-02260-1)
Hardcover, J. Cape, 1986
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Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929by Karen DubinskyISBN 0226167542 (0-226-16754-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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In Between the Sheets, and Other Storiesby Ian McEwanISBN 0224015567 (0-224-01556-7)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval Franceby Georges Duby, Barbara BrayISBN 0226167682 (0-226-16768-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"It is typical of Duby's modest spirit and his book-long concern with the ancient status of beleaguered wives that he ends his study with a plea: 'We must not forget the women. Much has already been said about them. But how much do we really know?' Not everything, certainly, but far more than we did before the author began these charmingly erudite investigations."Ken Turan, Time
"It is refreshing to find a historian who is always conscious that we simply do not know what or how people thought 1000 years ago. . . . Duby explains the complicated machinations of the medieval churchman and the paterfamilias in a scholarly but lively style."Sarah Lawson, New Statesman
"Duby has written an extraordinarily rich booka panoramic view of medieval marriage and the relations between men and women, full of arresting insights and human detail. . . . It is the work of a master historian at the peak of his powers on a subject of central relevance, compulsive and essential reading."P. Stafford, British History
Georges Duby (1919-1996) was a member of the Académie française and for many years held the distinguished chair in medieval history at the Collège de France. His books include The Three Orders; The Age of Cathedrals; The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest; Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages; and History Continues, all published by the University of Chicago Press.More editions of The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France:
A Kristeva Readerby Julia KristevaISBN 0231063253 (0-231-06325-3)
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The Language of Sex: Five Voices from the Northern France Around 1200by John W. BaldwinISBN 0226036146 (0-226-03614-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Sex: Five Voices from the Northern France Around 1200'Book summary:This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world.[via]
John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the Ovidian literature of the schools; Jean Renart, for the contemporary romances; and Jean Bodel, for the emerging voices of the fabliaux. Baldwin juxtaposes their views on a range of essential subjects, including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation. The result is a fascinating dialogue of how they agreed or disagreed with, ignored, imitated, or responded to each other at a critical moment in the development of European ideas about sexual desire, fulfillment, morality, and gender.
These spokesmen allow us into the discussion of sexuality inside the church and schools of the clergy, in high and popular culture of the leity. This heterogeneous discussion also offers a startling glimpse into the construction of gender specific to this moment, when men and women enjoyed equal status in sexual matters, if nowhere else.
Taken together, these voices extend their reach, encompass their subject, and point to a center where social reality lies. By articulating reality at its varied depths, this study takes its place alongside groundbreaking works by James Brundage, John Boswell, and Leah Otis in extending our understanding of sexuality and sexual behavior in the Middle Ages.
"Superb work. . . . These five kinds of discourse are not often treated together in scholarly writing, let alone compared and contrasted so well."Edward Collins Vacek, Theological Studies
"[Baldwin] has made the five voices speak to us in a language that is at one and the same time familiar and alien in its resonance and accents. This is a truly exceptional book, interdisciplinary in the real sense of the word, which is surely destined to become a landmark in medieval studies."Keith Busby, Bryn Mawr Reviews
"[Baldwin's] attempt to 'listen' to these distant voices and translate their language of sex into our own raises challenging methodological questions that will be of great interest to historians and literary scholars alike."John P. Dalton, ComitatusMore editions of The Language of Sex: Five Voices from the Northern France Around 1200:
Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sapphoby Jane McIntosh SnyderISBN 0231099959 (0-231-09995-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit De Cuissageby Alain BoureauISBN 0226067432 (0-226-06743-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Love and Marriage in the Middle Agesby Georges Duby, Jane DunnettISBN 0226167747 (0-226-16774-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Love and the American Delinquentby Steven L. SchlossmanISBN 0226738582 (0-226-73858-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Love and the American Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of "Progressive" Juvenile Justice, 1825-1920by Steven L. SchlossmanISBN 0226738574 (0-226-73857-4)
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Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticismby Bernadette J. BrootenISBN 0226075923 (0-226-07592-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Men Like That: A Southern Queer Historyby John HowardISBN 0226354709 (0-226-35470-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneuticsby Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0226163121 (0-226-16312-1)
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Money: A Suicide Noteby Martin AmisISBN 0224022768 (0-224-02276-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Morvern Callarby Alan WarnerISBN 0224040111 (0-224-04011-1)
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The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDSby Hector CarrilloISBN 0226093034 (0-226-09303-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Clubby Anne AllisonISBN 0226014878 (0-226-01487-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224032356 (0-224-03235-6)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghaiby James FarrerISBN 0226238717 (0-226-23871-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Original Blissby A. L. KennedyISBN 0224044435 (0-224-04443-5)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagonby Sei Shonagon, Ivan I. MorrisISBN 0231073372 (0-231-07337-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon'Book summary:The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is an immensely detailed account of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Written at the height of Heian culture, it is a classic text of great literary beauty, full of lively anecdotes, humorous observations, and subtle impressions. Sei Shonagon was a contemporary and erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the court life that Lady Shonagon captures so vividly in her diary. The Pillow Book contains her reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, pilgrimage, conversation, and poetry. Lady Shonagon shares character sketches and the things she both loves and loathes. Her style is so eloquent, her wit so sharp, even the briefest fragments enchant us. There is no better introduction to the daily preoccupations of the Heian upper class, and Ivan Morris's notes and contextualization enrich the material for scholars and general readers.
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Plato's Symposiumby Plato, Seth BenardeteISBN 0226042758 (0-226-04275-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Symposium'Book summary:Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.[via] 
Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Actionby Frances FergusonISBN 0226243214 (0-226-24321-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinemaby Rey ChowISBN 0231076835 (0-231-07683-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Queer London: Perils And Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957by Matt HoulbrookISBN 0226354628 (0-226-35462-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europeby Margaret W. FergusonISBN 0226243141 (0-226-24314-1)
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Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism & Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticismby Jeffrey John KripalISBN 0226453790 (0-226-45379-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Womanby John Fowles, Harold PinterISBN 022401983X (0-224-01983-X)
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Sex and Repression in Savage Societyby Bronislaw MalinowskiISBN 0226502872 (0-226-50287-2)
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Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desiresby Lucy Bland, Laura L. DoanISBN 0226056678 (0-226-05667-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Sexual Nature, Sexual Cultureby Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. PinkertonISBN 0226001822 (0-226-00182-2)
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The Sexual Organization of the Cityby Edward O. Laumann, Stephen Ellingson, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, Yoosik YoumISBN 0226468976 (0-226-46897-6)
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Shameby Salman RushdieISBN 0224029525 (0-224-02952-5)
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Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imaginationby Rachel AdamsISBN 0226005399 (0-226-00539-9)
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Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600by Helmut PuffISBN 0226685063 (0-226-68506-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 0224616951 (0-224-61695-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identityby Harry OosterhuisISBN 0226630595 (0-226-63059-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Supermaleby Alfred JarryISBN 0224613944 (0-224-61394-4)
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Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Placesby Laud HumphreysISBN 0202302830 (0-202-30283-0)
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Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Genderby Margaret AndersenISBN 0205456472 (0-205-45647-2)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Three Steps on the Ladder of Writingby Helene Cixous, Sarah Cornell, Susan SellersISBN 0231076592 (0-231-07659-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Twyborn Affairby Patrick WhiteISBN 0224017330 (0-224-01733-0)
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Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Traditionby Barbara Meil HobsonISBN 0226345572 (0-226-34557-2)
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The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Presentby Peter L. AllenISBN 0226014614 (0-226-01461-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Throughout history, Western society has often viewed sickness as a punishment for sin. It has failed to prevent and cure diseasesespecially diseases tied to sexthat were seen as the retribution of a wrathful God. The Wages of Sin, the remarkable history of these diseases, shows how society's views of particular afflictions often heightened the suffering of the sick and substituted condemnation for care. Peter Allen moves from the medieval diseases of lovesickness and leprosy through syphilis and bubonic plague, described by one writer as "a broom in the hands of the Almighty, with which He sweepeth the most nasty and uncomely corners of the universe." More recently, medical and social responses to masturbation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and AIDS in the twentieth round out Allen's timely and erudite study of the intersection of private morality and public health. The Wages of Sin tells the fascinating story of how ancient views on sex and sin have shaped, and continue to shape, religious life, medical practice, and private habits.More editions of The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present:
The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Momentby Alan SinfieldISBN 023110166X (0-231-10166-X)
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Women, Wives, Mothers: Values and Optionsby Jessie Shirley BernardISBN 0202302814 (0-202-30281-4)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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