Sex Before Sex : Figuring the Act in Early Modern England

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956927003321
• Autore: Bromley James M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-4529-3947-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.9/353809031
• Soggetti: English literature - History and criticism - Early modern, 1500-1700 - England; Sex - History - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Sex in literature - History and criticism; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; English drama; Behavior; Literature; History, Modern 1601-; History, Early Modern 1451-1600; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Humanities; History; History, 16th Century; Sexual Behavior; History, 17th Century; Literature, Modern; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Figuring Early Modern Sex -- Chapter 1: "Invisible Sex!": What Looks Like the Act in ; Early Modern Drama? -- Chapter 2: Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual Sex -- Chapter 3: Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things That Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of Pornography -- Chapter 4: "Unmanly Passion": Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck -- Chapter 5: The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter 6: Rimming the Renaissance -- Chapter 7: Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The Garden -- Chapter 8: Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England -- Chapter 9: The Seduction of Milton's Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in Comus -- Chapter 10: "How Human Life Began": Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? "Sex before Sex" makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront how our current critical assumptions about definitions of sex restrict our understanding of representations of sexuality in early modern England. Drawing attention to overlooked forms of sexual activity in early modern culture, from anilingus and interspecies sex to OC chin-chuckingOCO and convivial drinking, "Sex before Sex" offers a multifaceted view of what sex looked like before the term entered history. Through incisive interpretations of a wide range of literary texts, including "Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Paradise Lost," the figure of Lucretia, and pornographic poetry, this collection queries what might constitute sex in the absence of a widely accepted definition and how a historicized concept of sex affects the kinds of arguments that can be made about early modern sexualities. Contributors: Holly Dugan, George Washington U; Will Fisher, CUNYOCoLehman College; Stephen Guy-Bray, U of British Columbia; Melissa J. Jones, Eastern Michigan U; Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College; Nicholas F. Radel, Furman U; Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U; Christine Varnado, U of BuffaloOCoSUNY.

The Routledge companion to architecture and social engagement / / edited by Farhan Karim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959707603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-317-49570-5; 1-315-71269-5; 1-317-49571-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xliv, 461 pages)
• Disciplina: 720.103
• Soggetti: Architecture and society; Architects and community
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Monumentality and Insurgency -- Introduction: Architecture and Social Engagement -- Postscript: How and When Was Architecture Socially Engaged? -- Part I Engagement as Discourse -- 1 What If . . . or Toward a Progressive Understanding of Socially Engaged Architecture -- 2 Understanding Social Engagement in Architecture: Toward Situated-Embodied and Critical Accounts -- 3 Toward an Architecture of the Public Good -- 4 Radical Democracy and Spatial Practices -- Part II Targets of Engagement -- 5 Retracing the Emergence of a Human Settlements Approach: Designing in, From and With Contexts of Development -- 6 The United Nations and Self-Help Housing in the Tropics -- 7 Tracing the History of Socially Engaged Architecture: School Building as Development Aid in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa -- 8 The Opera Village Africa: Christoph Schlingensief and His Social Sculpture -- 9 Seeking Appropriate Methods: The Role of Public-Interest Design Advocacy in the High Himalaya -- Part III Structures of Engagement -- 10 Reconceiving Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century -- 11 The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Social Engagement via the Built Environment -- 12 Sale Ends Soon: Epistemological Alternatives to Flying Architects -- 13 Creating the ; Environment for Social Engagement: The Experience of Venezuela -- Part IV Subjects of Engagement -- 14 Housing for Spatial Justice: Building Alliances Between Women Architects and Users -- 15 Children's Engagement in Design: Reflections From Research and Practice -- 16 The Garden of Liberation: Emptiness and Engagement at Suan Mokkh, Chaiya -- 17 The Darker Side of Social Engagement -- Part V Tectonics of Engagement.; 18 A Comparative History of Live Projects Within the United States and the UK: Key Characteristics and Contemporary Implications -- 19 The Do-It-Your(Self ): The Construction of Social Identity Through DIY Architecture and Urbanism -- 20 Building the Unseen: A Shift to a Socially Engaged Architecture Education -- Part VI Environmental Engagement -- 21 Umdenken Umschwenken: Environmental Engagement and Swiss Architecture -- 22 Material Participation and the Architecture of Domestic Autonomy -- 23 Salvage Salvation: Counterculture Trash as a Cultural Resource -- Part VII Mapping Engagement -- 24 Marginality, Urban Conflict and the Pursuit of Social Engagement in Latin American Cities -- 25 Understanding Public Interest Design: A Conceptual Taxonomy -- 26 Architecture Before 3.11: Unspoken Social Architecture During the Blank 25 Years of Japan -- 27 The Reciprocity Between Architects and Social Change: Taiwan Experience After the 1990s -- 28 Transforming the Spatial Legacies of Colonialism and Apartheid: Participatory Practice and Design Agency in Southern Africa -- Part VIII Engagement in Emergency -- 29 What We Can Learn From Refugees -- 30 Displacement, Labor and Incarceration: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Genealogy of Camps -- 31 Are Architects the Last People Needed in Disaster Reconstruction? -- 32 Architecture Without Borders? The Globalization of Humanitarian Architecture Culture -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Social Enagagement examines architecture as it changes from being a market-driven profession by looking at socio-political, professional, and philosophical aspects of the field through theory and case studies. Topics in the 35 new essays by global contributors include public interest design, scarcity and poverty, participatory design, empowerment, service learning, professionalism, commodification, trauma, and humanitarianism, among others. Case studies in the United States, South America, the United Kingdom, Africa, Australia, China, and South and Southeast Asia, illustrated with 175 black and white images demonstrate ideas discussed.