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Darrera modificació: 2016-04-13
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Fradenburg, Louise - Freccero, Carla (eds.), Premodern Sexualities, Nova York, Routledge, 1976, xxiv + 276 pp.
- Resum
- This work examines current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating pre-modern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in historicist interpretations of early textualizations of sexuality. The text clarifies the contributions literary studies can make - through its emphasis on reading strategies - to the historiogrphy of sexuality. The editors construct a genealogy for the history of sexuality, sexual practices and sexual identities, by expanding the abundance of work in the history of sexuality, most notably popularized by John Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe . Expanding on a special issue of the GLQ which explored the role of pleasure in the construction of narratives about premodernity and modernity, the editors call for a rethinking of the categories of history and sexuality in ways that mutually transform each other.
Contents:
* The history that will be / Jonathan Goldberg
* In search of the black stud / José Piedra
* The queen's too [sic] bawdies: El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of historicity / María Carrión
* Henry's desires / Richard Corum
* "Ut cum muliere": a male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London / Ruth Mazo Karras & David Lorenzo Boyd
* The hermaphrodite and the orders of nature: sexual ambiguity in early modern France / Lorraine Daston & Katharine Park
* Don't ask, don't tell: murderous plots and medieval secrets / Karma Lochrie
* Straight minds/"queer" wishes in old French hagiography: La vie de Sainte Euphrosine / Simon Gaunt
* Sobs and sighs between women: the homoerotics of compassion in The book of Margery Kempe / Kathy Lavezzo
* Virile style / Patricia Parker
* Explicit ink / Elizabeth Pittenger
* Sodomy and resurrection: the homoerotic subject of the Divine comedy / Bruce Holsinger
- Matèries
- Sexualitat
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