Author: Jacqueline RosePublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789605261
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
Sexuality in the Field of Vision
Author: Jacqueline RosePublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781844670581
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts through which an interrogation of contemporary theory should be sustained.
Sex In The Head
Author: Linda R. WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In Sex in the Head, Linda Ruth Williams uses psychoanalysis and recent feminist film theory to analyze a network of ideas which link looking with sexuality and difference, in the work of a writer who disavowed, yet covertly enjoyed, the pleasures and power of vision. The book is a departure from the long history of feminist readings of Lawrence, in that it discusses his engagement with theories of the gaze and its cultural forms - cinema, photography, painting and the visual dynamics and metaphors of literary texts - as a way of thinking through gender. It shows him arguing, on the one hand, against the evils of cinema and visual sex, while relishing, through the eyes of women, the moving spectacle of those male bodies which populate the pages of his books. It also questions what it is about the work of such an adamant cinephobe which has made it so thoroughly adaptable for film and television.
Troubled Vision
Author: E. CampbellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137114517
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader response, and the visual troubling of modern critical categories.
Divine Sex
Author: Jonathan GrantPublisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1441227164
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral intuitions we carry subconsciously, which are shaped by the convictions of our age. In this book, a fresh new voice offers a persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling young adults to faithful discipleship in a hypersexualized world. Drawing from his pastoral experience with young people and from cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Jonathan Grant helps Christian leaders understand the cultural forces that make the church's teaching on sex and relationships ineffective in the lives of today's young adults. He also sets forth pastoral strategies for addressing the underlying fault lines in modern sexuality.
Lying Bodies
Author: Akiko ShimizuPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101007
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Lying Bodies explores how to survive with invisible, non-normative identities by focusing on literally 'invisible' differences. The first half of the book attempts a theoretical account of the self in the field of vision, drawing on psychoanalytic theories of the formation of the self. In order for the survival of the self with a visual image that both enables and threatens it, the book proposes the strategy of 'the lying body', which combines mimicry with equivocality. The second half of the book demonstrates possible forms of 'the lying body' through an analysis of specific examples of cultural practices, including works by artists Cindy Sherman and Morimura Yasumasa, as well as the claim of invisible sexual differences by feminine-looking lesbians.
Visual Culture: Histories, archaeologies and genealogies of visual culture
Author: Joanne MorraPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415326438
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experience of the world as a visual domain.
Gender and Sexuality
Author: Momin RahmanPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745633773
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality provides fresh insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to recent research and theory, and wider social concerns throughout the world.
Author: Virginia Rutter
Author: Jacques Lacan