Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDSDomna C. Stanton 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. |
Contents
THE SUBJECT OF SEXUALITY | 1 |
THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY REOPENING THE QUESTION | 47 |
Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus | 48 |
FOUCAULTS SUBJECT IN THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY | 78 |
FOUCAULT WRIGHT AND THE ARTICULATION OF RACIALIZED SEXUALITY | 94 |
DOES SEXUALITY HAVE A HISTORY? | 117 |
REGIMES OF KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE | 137 |
THE WORK OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE ELIZABETHAN DISCOURSE OF DISCOVERY | 138 |
Sexual Preferences and Erotic Identities in the PseudoLucianic Erôtes | 236 |
THE POETICS OF BIRTH | 262 |
A VISUAL ESSAY | 297 |
REMEMBERING THE BODY AS HISTORICAL TEXT | 312 |
AIDS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY | 343 |
SEXUAL INVERSIONS | 344 |
PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE WITH AIDS | 358 |
VALUES IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY | 385 |
SEXUAL DESIRE AND THE MARKET ECONOMY DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | 185 |
FREUD SEXUALITY AND PERVERSION | 216 |
THE CONSTRUCTED BODY | 235 |
Notes on Contributors | 409 |
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