Guy Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem PDF Author: Bill Marshall
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Guy Hocquenghem brings an important, challenging, and overly neglected French theorist back to the main stage.

Guy Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem PDF Author: Bill Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Book Description
Guy Hocquenghem brings an important, challenging, and overly neglected French theorist back to the main stage.

Homosexual Desire

Homosexual Desire PDF Author: Guy Hocquenghem
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822313847
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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This essay focuses on the possibility of social and personal transformation which was opened up by the gay liberation movement in France, which the author terms a "revolution of desire."

Love in Relief (L'amour en Relief)

Love in Relief (L'amour en Relief) PDF Author: Guy Hocquenghem
Publisher: Seahorse Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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The Politics of Authenticity

The Politics of Authenticity PDF Author: Joachim C. Häberlen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789200008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

The Pink and the Black

The Pink and the Black PDF Author: Frédéric Martel
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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[While acknowledging that the development of France's homosexual communities was influenced by America, Martel highlights the differences arising from the fact that homosexuality has not been criminalised in France as in the United States] -- back cover.

Polysexuality

Polysexuality PDF Author: Francois Peraldi
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis of a continent that is still emerging. Originally conceived as a special Semiotext(e) issue on homosexuality at the end of the 70s, “Polysexuality" quickly evolved into a more complex and iconoclastic project whose intent was to do away with recognized genders altogether, considered far too limitative. The project landed somewhere between humor, anarchy, science-fiction, utopia and apocalypse. In the few years that it took to put it together, it also evolved from a joyous schizo concept to a darker, neo-Lacanian elaboration on the impossibility of sexuality. The tension between the two, occasionally perceptible, is the theoretical subtext of the issue. Upping the ante on gender distinctions, "Polysexuality" started by blowing wide open all sexual classifications, inventing unheard-of categories, regrouping singular features into often original configurations, like Corporate Sex, Alimentary Sex, Soft or Violent Sex, Discursive Sex, Self- Sex, Animal Sex, Child Sex, Morbid Sex, or Sex of the Gaze. Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis of a continent that is still emerging. What it displayed in all its forms could be called, broadly speaking, the Sexuality of Capital. (Actually the issue being rather hot, it was decided to cool it off somewhat by only using “capitals” throughout the issue. It was also the first issue for which we used the computer). The "Polysexuality" issue was attacked in Congress for its alleged advocation of animal sex. Includes work by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Félix Guattari, Paul Verlaine, William S. Burroughs, Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Roland Barthes, Paul Virilio, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and more.

Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French

Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French PDF Author: Jason James Hartford
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319719033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, but two martyr-types. These are the queer type, typified first by Gustave Flaubert, which is a philosophical foil, and the gay type, popularized by Jean Genet but created by the Belgian Georges Eekhoud, which is a political and pornographic device. Grounded in feminist queer theory and working from a post-psychoanalytical point of view, the argument explores the potential and limits of these two figures, noting especially the persistence of misogyny in religious culture.

The Weather in Proust

The Weather in Proust PDF Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351587
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.

Unbecoming

Unbecoming PDF Author: Eric Michaels
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822320142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The journals of an American born anthropologist and cultural theorist who worked in Australia and died of AIDS-related causes in 1988. Michaels diary offers a forceful and ironic rumination on the cultual phenomenon of AIDS, how it relates to his concerns

Parts of an Andrology

Parts of an Andrology PDF Author: Lawrence R. Schehr
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804729208
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction of this figure, the author examines a group of discontinuous works that are representative of the discontinuity in the intermittent representation of the male body. Especially in nineteenth-century narrative, where Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant write astutely on the subject, there is never continuity in representing the male body. "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Bel-Ami are flickering, episodic investigations into the male body as subject, as sentient feeling, as the subject of torture or of adulation. Not until the twentieth century can this male subject be continuously represented. Though the male body is often at center stage, in works that treat it as a metonymy of its own phallic and phallocentric power, this body has less often been seen relative to pleasure and pain, to aesthetics, to human vulnerability. An introductory chapter explores a work by Alberto Moravia, Io e lui, as well as various manifestations of the male body's most salient part, the penis, in contemporary discourse and aesthetics. Another chapter deals with writings about the forbidden activity of masturbation and focuses on the work of three disparate writers: Paul Bonnetain, Michel Tournier, and Philip Roth. In the final chapter, the author discusses several works that focus on the representation of the male body during the gay liberation movement in France and the subsequent celebration of the male body, ending with the inscription of the male body in the literature of AIDS. Among the authors discussed are Guy Hocquenghem, Hervé Guibert, and Michel Foucault.