ISBN:
1283284553
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9781283284554
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1444343939
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1444343920
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9781444343939
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9781444343922
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 252 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Gender and history special issue book series
Uniform Title:
Gender & history.
Parallel Title:
Print version Historicising Gender and Sexuality
DDC:
306.701
Keywords:
Gender identity History
;
Sex History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Historicising Gender and Sexualityfeatures 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 themselvesPresents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes
Abstract:
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 themselvesPresents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes  
Description / Table of Contents:
Historicising Gender and Sexuality; CONTENTS; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos; 2 Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive; 3 Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World; 4 Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern China; 5 Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China; 6 Overcoming 'Simply Being': Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt8 The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s; 9 'A Certain Amount of Prudishness': Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law, 1947-58; 10 Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference; 11 Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists; Index
Note:
"Originally published as volume 22, issue 3 of Gender & history"--T.p. verso
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9781444343953
URL:
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