1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969894003321

Autore

Pearl Monica B.

Titolo

AIDS literature and gay identity : the literature of loss / / Monica B. Pearl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-22793-8

1-283-94229-1

0-203-09861-7

1-136-22794-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in twentieth-century English literature ; ; 29

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 29

Disciplina

810.9/3561

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) in literature

Gay people's writings, American - History and criticism

Loss (Psychology) in literature

Gay men - Identity

HIV/AIDS

Gay fiction

Gay literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Gay grief -- Mourning, identity, and gay AIDS fiction -- Queer AIDS literature: the hybrid text -- Queer AIDS literature: ontology, melancholia, fetishism -- Survival and marriage -- Conversations and queer filiation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the AIDS crisis by authors such as Edmund White, Michael Cunningham, Eve Sedgwick - and also, later, the archives of The ACT UP Oral History Project - lie both within the



tradition of gay writing and a postmodernist poetics. The book demonstrates how literary texts both expose and construct personal identity, how they expose and produce sexual identities, and how gay and queer identities were written onto the page, but also constructed and consolidated by these very texts. Pearl argues that the division between realist and postmodern, and gay and queer, respectively, is determined by whether the experience expressed and accounted is mediated through the psychoanalytic categories of mourning or melancholia, and is marked by a kind of coherence or chaos in the texts themselves. This study presents an important development in scholarly work in gay literary studies, queer theory, and AIDS representation. --

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964236503321

Autore

Mabilia Mara

Titolo

Breastfeeding and Sexuality : Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2005

ISBN

9781782386070

1782386076

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality ; ; v.5

Disciplina

649.3309678

649/.33/09678

Soggetti

Breastfeeding -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe

Cigongwe (Tanzania) -- Social life and customs

Puerperium -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe

Sex role -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe

Taboo -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe

Women, Gogo -- Attitudes

Women, Gogo -- Psychology

Women, Gogo -- Sexual behavior

Women, Gogo - Psychology - Tanzania - Cigongwe

Women, Gogo - Sexual Behavior - Cigongwe - Tanzania

Women, Gogo - Attitudes - Cigongwe - Tanzania

Breastfeeding - Cigongwe - Tanzania

Sex role

Taboo

Puerperium

Behavior



Feeding Behavior

Parents

Identification, Psychological

Psychosexual Development

Culture

Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

Anthropology

Personality Development

Psychoanalytic Theory

Physiological Phenomena

Persons

Social Sciences

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Defense Mechanisms

Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

Nuclear Family

Psychological Theory

Personality

Psychology

Family

Psychology, Social

Social Norms

Sociology

Psychological Phenomena

Breast Feeding

Mothers

Gender Identity

Sexual Behavior

Anthropology, Cultural

Medicine

History & Archaeology

Health & Biological Sciences

Regions & Countries - Africa

Pediatrics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

BREAST FEEDING AND SEXUALITY; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. CIGONGWE; CHAPTER 2. THE GOGO WOMEN; CHAPTER 3. BREAST FEEDING; CHAPTER 4. THE 'GOOD MOTHER', THE 'BAD MOTHER': DIARRHOEA AS A SIGN OF SOCIAL DISORDER; CHAPTER 5. MATERNAL MILK: INDICATOR OF 'GOOD MOTHER'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial,



purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breastfeeding among the Gogo women of the Cigongwe''s village in Tanzania, as part of the Paediatric Programme of Doctors with Africa, based in Padua. The focus is on mothers'' behaviour and post partum taboos as key elements in Gogo understanding of the vicissitudes of the breast feeding process. This nutrit