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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"the history of sexuality"”.
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Sophie Calle: Her(e) but Not Her(e)
<p>This monographic dissertation on the work of Sophie Calle begins by charting her very literal alliance with philosopher, Michel Foucault, and their shared work with the Prison Information Group in France in the early 1970’s. Having established this common connection between the artist and …
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(Dis)connected
… and I wanted to break away from this chain of misery. For a long time, I thought that all I was interested in was sex. I read books about prostitution in the west, took a class about the history of sexuality in America, and wrote about my own experiences with sex and BDSM for writing …
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The Spacing of Bodies In Heartbreak Tango (1969) and the Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig.
… opens up a unique textual space that allows for the revision of socio-political truths imposed by authoritarian regimes. In this thesis I discuss the instability of the spatialized dichotomies between history and fiction that are found both in certain historical figures in Argentina and in the …
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Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile
… productions, consumption, and performances of female bodies, genders, and sexualities in Chile under changing Cold War political regimes from 1950-1990. Drawing on deconstructionist and performance approaches, I consider the multiple, changing ways Cold War Chilean cisgender and transgender …
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The Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male homosexuality in early modern Ottoman Istanbul 1500-1826
This thesis investigates the relationships between male homosexuality, social transgression and the construction of masculinities in the early modem Ottoman Empire. To this end, it primarily focuses on Ottoman conduct and advice literature, court chronicles, sumptuary regulations and state rulings …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… intellectual, communications, and transnational history reside at the core this thesis. Methodologically indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops four main arguments. First, far from a …
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The Materialism Of The Encounter: Queer Sociality And Capital In Modern Literature
<p>In <i>The Materialism of the Encounter</i> I argue for the critical importance of queer sociality as a confrontation with global capital in which sexualities emerge as a material history necessary for rethinking the broader experiences of twentieth century modernity. To do so, I draw together a …
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The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
Writing the history of sexuality in the United States is a notoriously slippery task. For years, scholars ignored the history of American sexuality, abiding by the assumption that sex belongs in the bedroom, the private realm, and thus has no bearing on the high politics and economics that used to …