This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary-works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others-it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed 'homosexual sodomy' and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq.The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description of sodomy as 'that utterly ...
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This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary-works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others-it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed 'homosexual sodomy' and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq.The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description of sodomy as 'that utterly confused category.' Without collapsing questions of historical difference, it works to articulate relations between the early modern period and our own, between a time before the homo/heterosexual divide and the modern regimes that assume it.
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New. Explores three social domains for textual production-the sixteenth-century English court as the location of high literariness; the theater, especially as a site for controversy around cross-dressing; and, the New World as the place where the slaughter of native populations was carried out in the name of ridding the hemisphere of sodomites. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 383. 2010. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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