Gay Lesbian

By Mario Mieli

Cultural reviews, sexual reviews, Social reports, Homosexuality

By Jeffrey A. Bennett

By Thorsten Fögen, Thorsten Fogen

This quantity offers a variety of contributions that examine the cultural, sociological and communicative importance of tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The papers conceal the time from the 8th century BCE till past due antiquity and take note of a extensive number of literary genres reminiscent of epic, tragedy, historiography, elegy, philosophical texts, epigram and the radical. the gathering additionally includes papers from sleek socio-psychology.

By Afsaneh Najmabadi

Because the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has accepted, and partly backed, intercourse reassignment surgical procedure. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the which means of transsexuality in modern Iran. Combining ancient and ethnographic examine, she describes how, within the postrevolutionary period, the domain names of legislation, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine turned invested in distinguishing among the appropriate "true" transsexual and different different types of id, significantly the "true" gay, an unacceptable class of life in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration between clinical professionals, really expert clerics, and country officials—which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if no longer precisely celebrated, classification of being—grew out of Iran's specific adventure of Islamicized modernity. ironically, nation rules has produced new areas for non-normative residing in Iran, on account that settling on who's surely "trans" relies mostly at the tales that individuals decide to inform, at the selves that they profess.

By Gunhild Hoogensen

Ladies in energy profiles 22 international leaders who've held the head positions of political energy given that 1960. each one bankruptcy is dedicated to a area of the area. as well as supplying an outline of the political careers of the ladies who emerged as leaders in those areas, the authors study the political structures of every quarter when it comes to the involvement of ladies in politics.Biographies of those political leaders are embedded inside of local analyses that show not just the private conditions that every lady confronted in her quest for energy but additionally the political milieu from which she emerged. We find out about the hindrances in addition to the benefits those girls confronted, and we derive insights into the constructions that exist in our personal societies concerning the energy family among women and men. girls in energy additionally devotes a bankruptcy to differing theories of women's management and numerous theories of feminism all over the world. eventually, with a purpose to know the way the U.S. can seem to be the bastion of women's liberation worldwide and but have purely 15 percentage illustration of ladies in strength and no girl president up to now, the authors discover customers for the impending 2008 U.S. presidential election and speak about strength applicants.

By Sara Bell

By M. Langer

This publication offers a step by way of step illumination of the intricacy, "logic," and significance of 1 of Nietzsche's richest and most complicated works. In a transparent and obtainable demeanour the writer explains the interconnectedness of The homosexual Sciences likely unrelated sections. all through she presents severe remark, history info, and translation corrections.

By Carly Phillips

Rugged Boston cop Kevin Manning had promised to appear out for the relatives of his mortally wounded accomplice. He did not imagine that comforting his partner's grieving sister Nikki might result in an evening of blazing ardour. yet confident brooding loner has not anything to provide a freshfaced good looks like Nikki, he leaves her to get up by myself, in basic terms to come months later to discover her suffering to make ends meet - and wearing his baby. Nikki could not forgive Kevin for leaving behind her whilst she wanted him such a lot, or for being so fascinating that her middle could not cease eager for him. while she accredited his supply of take care of and aid, she confident herself it used to be simply till the infant was once born and he or she was once again on her toes. nonetheless, whatever smooth - and oh so tempting - in Kevin's heated gaze informed her he simply may need her up to she wanted him.

By Anne McClintock, Phillip Brian Harper, José Esteban Muñoz, Trish Rosen

Previously, queer concept has mostly been silent approximately questions of race, in particular whilst thought of in a global context. a lot postcolonial concept has been silent approximately questions concerning gender and sexuality. This exact factor of Social textual content explores the family among race and queer sexuality by means of targeting the politics of transgression in a transnational world.In the 1st component to this factor, Race and Queer Sexuality, overseas authors deal with themes starting from Asian American queer identification and its relation to transnational and diasporic matters to homophobia and its dating to black nationalism in South Africa. different topics contain, sexuality, race, and public house; lesbian pedagogy and the kingdom in Latin the US; and an research of cross-race and cross-gender drag within the paintings of L.A. drag queen Vaginal Creme Davis. within the moment part, The Politics of Transgression, participants specialise in transgression and its dating to energy and heritage. One essay explores Irish immigration within the U.S. and the Irish girl physique as a determine of transnational contagion and blood panic, whereas one other specializes in Oscar Wilde, race, and queer sexuality. different items comprise a meditation on British filmmaker and author Derek Jarman’s movie, Blue.Race and Queer Sexuality confronts the constraints of earlier paintings in queer thought whereas offering a place to begin for dialogue of race, queer sexuality, and the politics of transgression that would join queer conception of the future.Contributors. Judith Butler, David Eng, Licia Fiol-Mata, Judith Halberstam, Phillip Brian Harper, Neville Hoad, Rachel Holmes, Don Kulick, Tim Lawrence, Rosalind Morris, Jos? Esteban Mu?oz, Ben Singer, David Valentine, Priscilla Wald, Riki Anne Wilchins

By J. Crouthamel

This eye-opening learn offers a nuanced, provocative account of the way German squaddies within the nice battle skilled and enacted masculinity. Drawing on an array of correct narratives and media, it explores the ways in which either heterosexual and gay infantrymen expressed emotion, understood romantic beliefs, and approached intimacy and sexuality.