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Queering Iberia: Revisiting Iberian masculinities. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.
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Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos. Queer Festivals. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982741.
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To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality. These ideals are moreover channelled through a series of organisational and cultural practices that aim at the emergence of queer as a collective identity. Through the study of festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen, and Oslo, Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe thoughtfully analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.
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Kraß, Andreas, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay, eds. Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839453322.
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When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and community in Palestine. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. While the first section of the book presents queer geographies, including Germany, Austria, Poland and Palestine, the second section introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine including the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), the writer Hugo Marcus (1880-1966), and the artist Annie Neumann (1906-1955).
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Sweetapple, Christopher, ed. The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30820/9783837974447.
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Anti-racist and queer politics have tentatively converged in the activist agendas, organizing strategies and political discourses of the radical left all over the world. Pejoratively dismissed as »identity politics«, the significance of this cross-pollination of theorizing and political solidarities has yet to be fully countenanced. Even less well understood, coalitions of anti-racist and queer activisms in western Europe have fashioned durable organizations and creative interventions to combat regnant anti-Muslim and anti-migrant racism within mainstream gay and lesbian culture and institutions, just as the latter consolidates and capitalizes on their uneven inclusions into national and international orders. The essays in this volume represent a small snapshot of writers working at this point of convergence between anti-racist and queer politics and scholarship from the context of Germany. Translated for the first time into English, these four writers and texts provide a compelling introduction to what the introductory essay calls »a Berlin chapter of the Queer Intersectional«, that is, an international justice movement conducted in the key of academic analysis and political speech which takes inspiration from and seeks to synthesize the fruitful concoction of anti-racist, queer, feminist and anti-capitalist traditions, movements and theories. With contributions by Judith Butler, Zülfukar Çetin, Sabine Hark, Daniel Hendrickson, Heinz-Jürgen-Voß, Salih Alexander Wolter and Koray Yılmaz-Günay
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Cultural politics-- queer reading / Alan Sinfield. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2005.
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Dasgupta, Sudeep, and Mireille Rosello. What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-Enchanting Paradigms. Fordham University Press, 2014.
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What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-Enchanting Paradigms. Fordham University Press, 2014.
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Adkins, Peter, and Derek Ryan, eds. Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979374.001.0001.
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From the “prying,” “insidious” “fingers of the European War” that Septimus Warren Smith would never be free of in Mrs Dalloway to the call to “think peace into existence” during the Blitz in “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid,” questions of war and peace pervade the writings of Virginia Woolf. This volume asks how Woolf conceptualised peace by exploring the various experimental forms she created in response to war and violence. Comprised of fifteen chapters by an international array of leading and emerging scholars, this book both draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf’s modernist aesthetic and draws on various critical frameworks for reading her work, in order to deepen our understanding of her writing about the politics of war, ethics, feminism, class, animality, and European culture. The chapters collected here look at how we might re-read Woolf and her contemporaries in the light of new theoretical and aesthetical innovations, such as peace studies, post-critique, queer theory, and animal studies. It also asks how we might historicise these frameworks through Woolf’s own engagement with the First and Second World Wars, while also bringing her writings on peace into dialogue with those of others in the Bloomsbury Group. In doing so, this volume reassesses the role of Europe and peace in Woolf’s work and opens up new ways of reading her oeuvre.
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Greer, Stephen. Queer exceptions. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526113696.001.0001.
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This book is a study of solo performance in the UK and western Europe since the turn of millennium that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and the demands of neoliberalism. With case studies drawn from across theatre, cabaret, comedy and live art – and featuring artists, playwrights and performers as varied as La Ribot, David Hoyle, Neil Bartlett, Bridget Christie and Tanja Ostojić – it provides an essential account of the diverse practices which characterize contemporary solo performance, and their significance to contemporary debates concerning subjectivity, equality and social participation. Beginning in a study of the arts festivals which characterize the economies in which solo performance is made, each chapter animates a different cultural trope – including the martyr, the killjoy, the misfit and the stranger – to explore the significance of ‘exceptional’ subjects whose uncertain social status challenges assumed notions of communal sociability. These figures invite us to re-examine theatre’s attachment to singular lives and experiences, as well as the evolving role of autobiographical performance and the explicit body in negotiating the relationship between the personal and the political. Informed by the work of scholars including Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman and Giorgio Agamben, this interdisciplinary text offers an incisive analysis of the cultural significance of solo performance for students and scholars across the fields of theatre and performance studies, sociology, gender studies and political philosophy.
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Adair, Gigi. Kinship Across the Black Atlantic. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620375.001.0001.
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This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they demonstrate the importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Beale, Charles. “A Different Kind of Goose Bump”. Edited by Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199373369.013.20.
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This chapter examines the musical practices and procedures of choruses such as the famous Gay Men’s Chorus within the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) communities of the United States and Europe, and more specifically the discourse in and around them. It focuses on choral pedagogy as it is found in such ensembles and communities, drawing on the literature and first-hand accounts from singers, conductors and audience members, and examines what they uniquely value in their singing. Specific questions include: what is a good sound for an early MTF (male to female) transgender singer? Is it good to have female tenors in your ensemble, and if so, how many? How does the meaning of a song change for singers and audience when sung by a group of 250 gay men? How does that inflect the way in which that song should be taught to the singers? In short, is there a queer choral pedagogy?
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Akkerman, Nadine. Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199668304.001.0001.
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This book presents a biography of Elizabeth Stuart, one of the most misrepresented and underestimated figures of the seventeenth century. Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James VI and I, was married to Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1613. The couple were crowned King and Queen of Bohemia in 1619, only to be deposed and exiled to the Dutch Republic in 1620. Elizabeth then found herself at the epicentre of the Thirty Years’ War and the Civil Wars, political and military struggles that defined seventeenth century Europe. Following her husband’s death in 1632, Elizabeth fostered a cult of widowhood and conducted a long and fierce political campaign to regain her children’s birthright. On returning to England in 1661, Elizabeth Stuart found a country whose people still considered her their ‘Queen of Hearts’. This book reveals the impact Elizabeth Stuart had on both England and Europe, demonstrating that she was more than just the grandmother of George I.
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Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
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Dau, Duc, and Shale Preston. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Dau, Duc, and Shale Preston. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Dau, Duc, and Shale Preston. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Dau, Duc, and Shale Preston. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Dau, Duc, and Shale Preston. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Des Jardins, Julie. Women’s and Gender History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0008.
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This chapter looks at women’s history and its successor, gender history, which emerged as strong new approaches beginning in the 1970s—precisely when the wider feminist movement began to have its most profound impact on at least Euro-American societies. Gender history and women’s history are not the same. The former, larger category overlaps with the latter, and also with areas such as masculinity history, critical race theory, and queer studies. However, it has only been since the 1980s that historians have considered ‘gender’ an historical subject or ‘a useful category of historical analysis’. Nevertheless, various radical, Marxist, and progressive historians had planted the seeds of gender history as early as the 1920s and 1930s, even as they privileged neither women nor gender as subjects. Their questioning of power structures and engagement of politics and relativist concepts were integral to the development of the field later in the twentieth century.
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Schabas, William A. Demand for Surrender. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833857.003.0017.
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When the Treaty of Versailles entered into force in January 1920, the British, French, and Italians sent their demand for surrender to the Dutch Government. When it was promptly rejected, the three Allied Powers prepared a reply protesting the Dutch decision. But they were already shifting their position in favour of some form of internment similar to what had been imposed upon Napoleon in 1815. Initially, they sought internment far from Europe, but the Dutch were not interested. After a series of unpleasant diplomatic exchanges, the Dutch Queen issued a decree confining the Kaiser to his new castle in Doorn. The Kaiser remained at Doorn for the rest of his natural life, dying in 1941. By then, Germany had occupied the Netherlands and his castle was guarded by Wehrmacht troops. Hitler had his local hatchet-man, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, attend the funeral and present a wreath on his behalf.
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Flynn, Catherine, ed. The New Joyce Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009235693.
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The New Joyce Studies indicates the variety and energy of research on James Joyce since the year 2000. Essays examine Joyce's works and their reception in the light of a larger set of concerns: a diverse international terrain of scholarly modes and methodologies, an imperilled environment, and crises of racial justice, to name just a few. This is a Joyce studies that dissolves early visions of Joyce as a sui generis genius by reconstructing his indebtedness to specific literary communities. It models ways of integrating masses of compositional and publication details with literary and historical events. It develops hybrid critical approaches from posthuman, medical, and queer methodologies. It analyzes the nature and consequences of its extension from Ireland to mainland Europe, and to Africa and Latin America. Examining issues of copyright law, translation, and the history of literary institutions, this volume seeks to use Joyce's canonical centrality to inform modernist studies more broadly.
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Andrade, Nathanael. Legacy and Likenesses. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638818.003.0010.
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For nearly two millennia after she lived, people have remembered Zenobia. In Europe, numerous writers and artists over the ages, including Edward Gibbon, have celebrated her as a figure of womanly virtue and an eastern queen. In the Middle East, she has been seen as a focal point for ideals of liberation and autonomy. Indeed, for the Arab world, she is a liberator from Western imperialism. Her varied likenesses have outlived all these figurations. They have even outlived the Assad regime’s politicizing of Zenobia and her Palmyra as well as the Islamic State’s destruction of its monuments and portraits. It is through all these narratives that Zenobia will continue to live and to die.
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Harris, Frances. The General in Winter. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802440.001.0001.
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The book tells the story of the ‘glories of the age of Anne’: the union of England and Scotland to form Great Britain and its establishment, through the victories of the War of the Spanish Succession, as a European and a global power. This was the achievement of two men above all: Queen Anne’s Captain-General, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and her Lord Treasurer, Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin, of whom it was said that each ‘was the greatest of his kind that hardly any age has afforded’. Their partnership not only embodied the emerging military-fiscal state; it was also a close and lifelong friendship which fully encompassed Marlborough’s beautiful and tempestuous wife Sarah. Tracing the partnership as it proved itself in a succession of victorious summer campaigns in the field and bitterly contested ‘winter campaigns’ at home connects aspects of a complex period which are often studied in isolation. But was the partnership in the end too successful, too self-contained, too mutually supportive; a dangerous concentration of power in fact and a threat to the queen and the constitution? ‘Rebellion and blood’ were always undercurrents of the last Stuart reign. A troubled dynasty would end with Queen Anne’s death and a contested succession depended on the outcome of the European war that occupied almost the whole of her reign. This is a story of sovereignty and ambition, glory and defeat, but above all of love and friendship, which helped to shape the modern world.
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Popova, Irina L., ed. Historical Method in Literary Studies. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0682-6.
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Collective monograph was prepared by scientists from A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow State University, Russian State University for the Humanities, Georg August University of Göttingen, (Göttingen, Germany) and Queen Mary University of London (London, UK). It covers problems of historicism in the sciences of language and literature. The book includes articles on both general theoretical and methodological issues and different practices: historical poetics, “new historicism”, comparative historical research, dynamic models of literary history. The authors analyze the concepts of history in Russian (A.N. Veselovsky, OPOYAZ, M.M. Bakhtin, etc.), European (E.R. Curtius, E. Auerbach, etc.) and American theory in their connections and relations; study the strategies of literary history, explore the genesis of the idea of world literature, the specifics of philology and the history of world and national literatures.
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Silva, Daniel F. Anti-Empire: Decolonial Interventions in Lusophone Literatures. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941008.001.0001.
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Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces engage with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. Guided by a theoretically eclectic approach ranging from Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Studies, Empire is explored as a spectrum of contemporary global power inaugurated by European expansion and propagated in the postcolonial present through economic, cultural, and political forces. Through the texts analysed, Anti-Empire offers in-depth interrogations of contemporary power in terms of racial politics, gender performance, socio-economic divisions, political structures, and the intersections of these facets of domination and hegemony. By way of grappling with Empire’s discursive field and charting new modes of producing meaning in opposition to that of Empire, the texts read from Brazil, the Cape Verde Islands, East Timor, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe open new inquiries for Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies while contributing theoretical debates to the study of Lusophone cultures.
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Simpson, Andrew RC. ‘Cleare as Is the Summers Sunne’? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199670055.003.0004.
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In sixteenth-century Europe, laws of royal succession were frequently presented as virtually inviolable. Attempts to alter them or interpret them in novel ways provoked fierce legal debate. For example, Scottish lawyers questioned an apparent attempt to exclude Mary, Queen of Scots from the English royal succession. In so doing, these lawyers made reference to eclectic sources of legal authority, including Roman law and canon law, but also English law and the positive laws of other nations. Arguably, they regarded all of those sources as potential repositories of legal learning. They also seemed to indicate that that intrinsic learning gave the laws a rather general force in helping to resolve disputes in many different jurisdictions. Here it is argued that this is not to be explained in terms of a nascent ius inter gentes, but rather with reference to the fundamental assumptions these lawyers held concerning the nature of legal authority.
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Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2022.
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Garrard, Greg. Introduction. Edited by Greg Garrard. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742929.013.035.
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Ecocriticism began as an environmentalist literary movement that challenged Marxists and New Historicists over the meaning and significance of British Romanticism. An important component of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism has been characterized using the metaphor of waves. “First-wave” ecocriticism is inclined to celebrate nature rather than query “nature” as a concept and to derive inspiration as directly as possible from wilderness preservation and environmentalist movements. “Second-wave” ecocriticism is linked to social ecological movements and maintains a more skeptical relationship with the natural sciences. The contributions to the book, which encompass both “waves”, are organized in a widening spiral, from critical historicizations of “nature” in predominantly Euro-American literature in the first section to a series of surveys of work in ecocriticism’s “emerging markets” – Japan, China, India and Germany – in the last. The “Theory” section includes essays adopting perspectives from Latourian science studies, queer theory, deconstruction, animal studies, ecofeminism and postcolonialism. The “Genre” section demonstrates the diverse applications of ecocriticism with topics ranging from British literary fiction, Old Time music, environmental humour, climate change nonfiction.
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Arbabzadah, Nushin. Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520294134.003.0003.
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This chapter sheds light on the foundational Timurid period in Afghan history during the fifteenth century that saw important and enduring religious institutions founded in the capital city of Herat and other urban centers. The chapter focuses on the ways in which Timurid women of the ruling class patronized shrine and mosque architecture with their own private funds. The most audacious of these female patrons, Queen Gawhar Shad (r. 1405-47), broke the longstanding traditional taboo that banned women from patronizing mosques. She built not one but two mosques; moreover, the mosques in question were not just ordinary places of worship but were prestigious Friday mosques, institutions that stood at the intersection of political and religious power. The chapter draws on original Persian records alongside contemporary European scholarship to provide an overview of Afghan women’s role in shaping the religious landscape of medieval Afghanistan.
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Ruberg, Bo. Sex Dolls at Sea. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13822.001.0001.
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Investigating and reimagining the origin story of the sex doll through the tale of the sailor's dames de voyage. The sex doll and its high-tech counterpart the sex robot have gone mainstream, as both the object of consumer desire and the subject of academic study. But sex dolls, and sexual technology in general, are nothing new. Sex dolls have been around for centuries. In Sex Dolls at Sea, Bo Ruberg explores the origin story of the sex doll, investigating its cultural implications and considering who has been marginalized and who has been privileged in the narrative. Ruberg examines the generally accepted story that the first sex dolls were dames de voyage, rudimentary figures made of cloth and leather scraps by European sailors on long, lonely ocean voyages in centuries past. In search of supporting evidence for the lonesome sailor sex doll theory, Ruberg uncovers the real history of the sex doll. The earliest commercial sex dolls were not the dames de voyage but the femmes en caoutchouc: “women” made of inflatable vulcanized rubber, beginning in the late nineteenth century. Interrogating the sailor sex doll origin story, Ruberg finds beneath the surface a web of issues relating to gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism. What has been lost in the history of the sex doll and other sex tech, Ruberg tells us, are the stories of the sex workers, women, queer people, and people of color whose lives have been bound up with these technologies.
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Kapoor, Ilan, and Zahi Zalloua. Universal Politics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197607619.001.0001.
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This book claims that there is a negativity at the core of all social articulations that provides the basis for a universal politics. Drawing principally on the work of Slavoj Žižek, the book suggests that the social is punctured by an impossibility—an incompletion—that, rather than serving as a barrier to politics, lays a foundation for shared struggle. The book thus argues for a negative universality, rooted not in a positive element (e.g., identity-based politics) but a discordant one, so that under our current global capitalist system, solidarity is to be forged on the basis of social antagonism (i.e., shared experiences of exploitation and marginalization). Such a conception of shared struggle avoids the trap of both a neocolonial universalism (e.g., the rights of white men parading as universal rights) and the narrow particularism of identity-based politics. Most importantly, it foregrounds the struggles of the systematically dispossessed and excluded (the permanently unemployed, migrants, refugees, sweatshop laborers, etc.), who stand as symptom of our global capitalist order. The book compares “negative universality” with four competing contemporary versions of universalism—conservative, liberal, postcolonial, and Marxist. It also brings “negative universality” into dialogue with present-day critics of universalism—postmodernists, post-Marxists, queer theorists, decolonial pluriversalists, and new materialists. Finally, it examines what a universal politics might look like today in the context of such key global sites of struggle as climate change, the refugee crisis, the Palestinian question, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, political Islam, workers’ struggles, the Bolivian state under Morales, the European Union, and Covid-19.
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Dead Letters Sent. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2015.
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