Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexualityacross time and space. Features a wide and diverse range of scholarship to explore the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across space and time 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 INDICE: Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear. 1. Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos: Pete Sigal (Duke University). 2. Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive: Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University). 3. Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World: Brooke N. Newman (University of Oxford, Yale University). 4. Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature inModern China: Leon Antonio Rocha (Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge). 5. Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China:Howard Chiang (Princeton University). 6. Overcoming Simply Being': Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt: Wilson Chacko Jacob (Concordia University). 7. Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt: Hanan Kholoussy (American University in Cairo). 8. The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s: Sandra Eder(Johns Hopkins University). 9. A Certain Amount of Prudishness': Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law, 1947-58: Brian Hoffman (University of California). 10. Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference: Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University). 11. Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists: Susana Peña (Bowling Green State University). Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3944-4
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 08/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés