Benjamin Kahan

Celibacies

American Modernism & Sexual Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Benjamin Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355687
• ISBN-10: 082235568X
• Artikelnr.: 39107896

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Kahan is Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Expressive Hypothesis
1. The Longue Durée of Celibacy: Boston Marriage, Female Friendship, and
the Invention of Homosexuality
2. Celibate Time
3. The Other Harlem Renaissance: Father Divine, Celibate Economics, and the
Making of Black Sexuality
4. The Celibate American: Closetedness, Emigration, and Queer Citizenship
before Stonewall
5. Philosophical Bachelorhood, Philosophical Spinsterhood, and Celibate
Modernity
Conclusion. Asexuality/Neutrality/Relationality
Notes
Bibliography
Index