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Siegel - Eroticism and Containment: Notes from the Flood Plain (Genders) - 9780814779996 - KST0009702
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Eroticism and Containment: Notes from the Flood Plain (Genders)

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Description for Eroticism and Containment: Notes from the Flood Plain (Genders) Paperback. These essays reveal an erotic overflow that cannot be contained within any one gendered identity. They examine how the erotic escapes containment and disclose problems inherent in the intersections of gender and desire. Editor(s): Siegel, Carol; Kibbey, Ann. Series: Genders. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567. Fine copy

Sexual confessions on television talk shows. Gender and medical discourse in colonial India. River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. White women in a German colony. Henry James' thwarted love. What do these seemingly diverse subjects have in common?
All address, in different ways, social and cultural attempts to contain eroticism by delineating the perimeters of genders. They scrutinize the political investments in the construction of gender in such disparate locations as contemporary Hollywood, Renaissance England, colonial India and Africa, and in modern and contemporary homosexual discourse communities and in Freud's sessions with Dora.
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814779996
SKU
KST0009702
Shipping Time
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About Siegel
Carol Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver and author of Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions and Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love. Ann Kibbey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder and founding editor of Genders. She teaches cultural studies and is the ... Read more

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