Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS (RATIO: Institute for the Humanities)
Language: English
Published by University of Michigan Press, 1993
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- Title
- Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS (RATIO: Institute for the Humanities)
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication year
- 1993
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- Very Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0472065130
- ISBN 13
- 9780472065134
Michael Foucault called sex “the explanation for everything, our master key.” In Discourses of Sexuality, fourteen distinguished scholars, artists, and critics examine sexuality from a fascinating array of perspectives. The book’s opening section reopens the question of “the history of sexuality;” it is followed by “Regimes of Knowledge and Desire,” which explores gender and sexuality in the Elizabethan period, sexual desire and the market economy during the Industrial Revolution, and Freud’s notions of sexuality of “perversion.” The next section, “The Constructed Body,” examines conceptions, representations, and implications of the body through written and visual representation. The last part of the book, “AIDS and the Crisis of Modernity,” looks at the place of AIDS in the study of sexuality, provides an analysis of Nicholas Nixon’s portraits of people with AIDS, and demonstrates the importance of rediscovering values that help us to live with human variety and social diversity.
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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This book consists of a series of 14 papers originally presented as a lecture series at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. The papers are loosely centered around a discussion of Michel Foucault's three-volume History of Sexuality ( LJ 10/15/78; LJ 12/85; LJ 1/87), with topics ranging from a discussion of the ancient Greek view of women's sexuality to an attack on the mainstream media's presentation of people with AIDS. The authors are active in the humanities; hence, their concerns and methodologies are quite different from those of social scientists. In general, this title is designed for academic libraries. Collectors in the humanities section should check the circulation of their copy of the Foucault title; if it has been used heavily, then there may be an audience for this title as well.
- Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman
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