Probing the Problematics: Sex and Sexuality
edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza
ISBN: 978-1-904710-43-1
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword: (Dis-)Entangling Sexual Discourse
Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza
PART I Sexuality and Spirituality
Sex and Divinity: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”
Ilana Shiloh
Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between Us
Tahseen Béa
Molecular and the Molar: Brokeback Mountain and the Burial of Sexuality
Marek M. Wojtaszek
Whore, Court, Church, I Modi and the Origins of Modern Obscenity
Benjamin Jacob
PART II Sex in Sociological Perspective(s)
Alberta Paints the Small Town Pink: Rural Sexualities in the Wake of Brokeback Mountain
Adam Kaasa
“I don’t mind showing off a bit of my belly”: Pre-teen Girls Negotiating the Discourse of Fashion
Julie Blanchard
The Psychosexual Impact of the Abortion Experience: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Women’s Response
Bridget M. Finn
Sexuality, Identity and Inequality: Examining the Interaction of Community, Family and Relationships
Jacqui O’Riordan
Un/Civil Partnerships: Class in Lesbian Relationships
Yvette Taylor
PART III Sexual Discourse and Pedagogy
Abstinence, Welfare and Self-Control
Claire Greslé-Favier
Expelling Pleasure? School-Based Sex Education and the Regulation of Youth
Erin Connell
Les-being and Identity Politics
Erzsébet Barát
The Symbolic Violence of “Protecting” Women from Sexual Abuse
Karen Morgan
PART IV Sexual Citizenship and the State
Recognition, Normalisation and Sexual Rights: The Intersexual Movement in the U.S. and Europe
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
“All the License They Want”: Homophiles Debate the Makings of a Good Citizen
John Master
Prostituting Margins: A Study on a State Ethnography and Gendered Citizenship in Turkey
Asl? Zengin
The Legal Status of Female Sex Workers in Austria and Germany
Alice Sadoghi
Strange Bedfellows: Feminist, Sexological and Criminological Discourses on Pornography
Kate?ina Lišková
PART V Intimate Encounters in Cyberspace
When to Make it Public or Private: Contextualising Sexuality in Online Sex Chat
Chrystie Myketiak
Why Cybersex? An Experimental Study of Putative Motivations for Engaging in Online Sex
Sebastian E. Barto?
PART VI Performative Erotics
Rural-Queer: Representations within the “Hillbilly” Trope
Jan Roddy
Sudden Clarity Could Kill! A Hypotheticpoetic for Voice and Cello
Shalmalee Palekar
slave, unchained
Luisa Orza
PART VII Sexuality in Aesthetic Spaces
Perverting Performances of Collecting and Exhibiting: A Study of Two U.S. Sex Museums
Jennifer Tyburczy
Polite Eroticism and Sexual Ambiguity: The Curious Case of Dora Gordine (1895-1991)
Jonathan Black
Taste, Sexuality, and Performance: Staging Same-Sex Desire in Eighteenth-Century France
Daniel Smith
PART VIII Sex in Literary Dialogue
Beyond Liminality towards Similarity: The Representation of Desire in Literature
Shani Rousso
Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian Fiction
Godwin Siundu
The Importance of Being in Charge: Sexual Initiation and the Discourse of Power in Abha Dawesar’s Babyji
Izabella Kimak
The Bishop and the Nightie: Sexual Dissent in the Fiction of John Broderick
Peter D.T Guy
The Neo-Victorian Sexsation: Literary Excursions into the Nineteenth Century Erotic
Marie-Luise Kohlke
Notes on Contributors
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