Historicising gender and sexuality / / edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer M. Spear

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.701
• Soggetto topico: Gender identity - History; Sex - History
• Altri autori: MurphyKevin P. <1963-> SpearJennifer M. <1967->
• Note generali: "Originally published as Volume 22, Issue 3 of Gender & History."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 7 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt 8 The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950's; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 themselves Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes
• Titolo autorizzato: Historicising gender and sexuality
• ISBN: 1-283-28455-3; 9786613284556; 1-4443-4395-5; 1-4443-4392-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139588503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender and History Special Issues