David Clark
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199558155
- eISBN:
- 9780191721342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558155.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, Anglo-Saxon / Old English Literature
This chapter analyses the repudiation of male‐female sexuality in The Phoenix and its presentation of asexual, solitary, and spiritual reproduction. It questions how far the spiritualization of sex ...
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This chapter analyses the repudiation of male‐female sexuality in The Phoenix and its presentation of asexual, solitary, and spiritual reproduction. It questions how far the spiritualization of sex and gender problematizes the poem's allegorical construction of the monastic environment, and sets up a rich and paradoxical dynamic that reflects a contradictory attitude to same‐sex intimacy and productive anxieties.Less
This chapter analyses the repudiation of male‐female sexuality in The Phoenix and its presentation of asexual, solitary, and spiritual reproduction. It questions how far the spiritualization of sex and gender problematizes the poem's allegorical construction of the monastic environment, and sets up a rich and paradoxical dynamic that reflects a contradictory attitude to same‐sex intimacy and productive anxieties.
John J. Piderit
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199793273
- eISBN:
- 9780190258313
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199793273.003.0023
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter argues that while a natural law context of fun or pleasure may initially seem like a sound reason for same-sex sexual intimacy, pleasure as the primary justification or norm for sex does ...
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This chapter argues that while a natural law context of fun or pleasure may initially seem like a sound reason for same-sex sexual intimacy, pleasure as the primary justification or norm for sex does not withstand scrutiny. Pleasure is too weak a foundation on which to base the freedom to engage in sex. Once one admits pleasure or fun as the primary justification for acts of friendship, without reference to other fundamental values, it becomes impossible to confine similar acts to the realm and meaning of friendship and life.Less
This chapter argues that while a natural law context of fun or pleasure may initially seem like a sound reason for same-sex sexual intimacy, pleasure as the primary justification or norm for sex does not withstand scrutiny. Pleasure is too weak a foundation on which to base the freedom to engage in sex. Once one admits pleasure or fun as the primary justification for acts of friendship, without reference to other fundamental values, it becomes impossible to confine similar acts to the realm and meaning of friendship and life.
Jim Downs
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040399
- eISBN:
- 9780252098819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040399.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter investigates the question of same-sex desire, intimacy, and violence among enslaved men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and rethinks the definition and meaning of evidence. It ...
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This chapter investigates the question of same-sex desire, intimacy, and violence among enslaved men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and rethinks the definition and meaning of evidence. It illustrates how, despite the fact that enslaved men experienced the range of human emotion and connection that people have felt throughout history, their enslavement has been almost impossible to imagine, let alone document. Fortunately, bits and pieces of their experience have survived, offering an outline of their intimacies and desires. The chapter attempts to recover a part of their stories, emphasizing that such scant evidence should not be a deterrent but instead compel us to rethink how we write history and how we define evidence.Less
This chapter investigates the question of same-sex desire, intimacy, and violence among enslaved men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and rethinks the definition and meaning of evidence. It illustrates how, despite the fact that enslaved men experienced the range of human emotion and connection that people have felt throughout history, their enslavement has been almost impossible to imagine, let alone document. Fortunately, bits and pieces of their experience have survived, offering an outline of their intimacies and desires. The chapter attempts to recover a part of their stories, emphasizing that such scant evidence should not be a deterrent but instead compel us to rethink how we write history and how we define evidence.
J. Samaine Lockwood
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469625362
- eISBN:
- 9781469625386
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625362.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American Colonial Literature
In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that ...
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In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood demonstrates that New England regionalism was an intellectual endeavor that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modernist moment. Lockwood draws on a diverse archive that includes fiction, material culture, collecting guides, and more. Showing how these women intellectuals aligned themselves with a powerful legacy of social and cultural dissent, Lockwood reveals that New England regionalism performed queer historical work, placing unmarried women and their myriad desires at the center of both regional and national history.Less
In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood demonstrates that New England regionalism was an intellectual endeavor that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modernist moment. Lockwood draws on a diverse archive that includes fiction, material culture, collecting guides, and more. Showing how these women intellectuals aligned themselves with a powerful legacy of social and cultural dissent, Lockwood reveals that New England regionalism performed queer historical work, placing unmarried women and their myriad desires at the center of both regional and national history.
