Historicising Gender and Sexuality (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Murphy, Kevin P.; Spear, Jennifer M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. * Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves * Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444343939
• Artikelnr.: 38305864

Autorenporträt

Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (2008), co-editor of Queer Twin Cities (2010), and co-editor of "Queer Futures," a special issue of the Radical History Review (2008). Jennifer M. Spear is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction KEVIN P. MURPHY and JENNIFER M.
SPEAR 1 1 Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the
Texts of the Tlacuilos PETE SIGAL 12 2 Power and Historical Figuring:
Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive MARISA J. FUENTES 38 3 Gender,
Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century
Anglo-Caribbean World BROOKE N. NEWMAN 59 4 Xing: The Discourse of Sex and
Human Nature in Modern China LEON ANTONIO ROCHA 77 5 Epistemic Modernity
and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China HOWARD CHIANG 103 6 Overcoming
'Simply Being': Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern
Egypt WILSON CHACKO JACOB 132 7 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality
in Semi-Colonial Egypt HANAN KHOLOUSSY 151 8 The Volatility of Sex:
Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s SANDRA EDER 166 9
'A Certain Amount of Prudishness': Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation
of American Obscenity Law, 1947-58 BRIAN HOFFMAN 182 10 Cold War Conflicts
and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International
Women's Year Conference JOCELYN OLCOTT 207 11 Gender and Sexuality in
Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists SUSANA PENÃ 229
Index 247