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Texts after Terror

Author : Rhiannon Graybill

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 251 pages

File Size : 35,66 MB

Release : 2021-04-23

Category : Religion

ISBN : 019008233X

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Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, scholarly approaches to sexual violence in the scriptures remain exhausted, dated, and in some cases even un-feminist, lagging far behind contemporary discourse about sexual violence and rape culture. Graybill responds to this disconnect by engaging contemporary conversations about rape culture, sexual violence, and #MeToo, arguing that rape and sexual violence - both in the Bible and in contemporary culture - are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky, and that we need to take these features seriously. Texts after Terror offers a new framework informed by contemporary conversations about sexual violence, writings by victims and survivors, and feminist, queer, and affect theory. In addition, Graybill offers significant new readings of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 34), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1-2), and the unnamed woman known as the Levite's concubine (Judges 19). Texts after Terror urges feminist biblical scholars and readers of all sorts to take seriously sexual violence and rape, while also holding space for new ways of reading these texts that go beyond terror, considering what might come after.



Sex as Work

Author : Claire Weinhold

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 50,48 MB

Release : 2022-11-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3031192605

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This book examines the ways that brothels are managed under decriminalisation in New Zealand. New Zealand decriminalised sex work in 2003 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act, making it the first country to do so. Decriminalisation situates brothels as ‘businesses like any other’ and creates a legislative platform for better working conditions for sex workers. Nevertheless, we have limited understanding of how brothels are managed in New Zealand. Drawing on interviews with brothel operators and sex workers, this book explores how the law is understood and implemented, how brothel operators position their businesses, and how they seek legitimacy in a historically stigmatised sector. It also examines the rules and norms by which operators manage their businesses and the possibilities for sex workers to consent to commercial sexual services in the context of neoliberal norms of work and of managers who expect them to be professionalised, responsibilised and productive.



Querying Consent

Author : Jordana Greenblatt

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 12,53 MB

Release : 2018-07-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780813594132

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Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the contributors to Querying Consent address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today. Grounded in theoretical explorations of the entanglement of consent and subjectivity across a range of textual, visual, multi- and digital media, Querying Consent considers the relationships between consent and agency before moving on to trace the concept’s outcomes through a range of investigations of the mutual implication of personhood and self-ownership.



The Art of Entertainment

Author : Jason Price

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 26,80 MB

Release : 2024-04-23

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1040020712

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In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940, focusing on the ways in which figures from popular entertainments, such as music hall serio-comics, clowns, and circus acrobats, came to feature in modern works of art. Readers with an interest in art, theatre, and the history of modern Britain will find Price’s approach, which sees major works of art used to illuminate the histories of once-famous entertainers and the wider social, political, and cultural landscape of this period, accessible and engaging. The book will bring to life for readers some of the most vivid works of modern British art and reveal how individuals historically overlooked due to their gender, sexuality, or race played a significant role in the shaping of British culture during this period of monumental social change.



It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward

Author : Drew Pinsky

Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 44,41 MB

Release : 2021-09

Category : Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN : 0358396034

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"Featuring . . . personal anecdotes and filled with accessible resources, a celebrity doctor and his daughter present this . . . comprehensive guide to sex, relationships and consent in today's #Metoo era"--Provided by publisher.



Querying Consent

Author : Jordana Greenblatt

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 47,12 MB

Release : 2018-07-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0813594154

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Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the contributors to Querying Consent address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today. Grounded in theoretical explorations of the entanglement of consent and subjectivity across a range of textual, visual, multi- and digital media, Querying Consent considers the relationships between consent and agency before moving on to trace the concept’s outcomes through a range of investigations of the mutual implication of personhood and self-ownership.



Annotation

Author : Remi H. Kalir

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 48,32 MB

Release : 2021-04-06

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 026236140X

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An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and writing. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation and its literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and offer examples of annotation that range from medieval rubrication and early book culture to data labeling and online reviews.



Painful pleasures

Author : Christopher Vaccaro

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 43,19 MB

Release : 2022-07-12

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1526153343

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This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint’s Lives and mystical treatises provide evidence of failed sadism and empowering masochism. Literary culture in the form of epics and courtly tales preserve stories of eroticised power. These exciting chapters join together to form a picture of medieval culture that is kinky in its practice and deeply psychological at its core.