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The intercourse of knowledge : on gendering desire and 'sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible
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ISSN: 09280731 ISBN: 9004101551 9004497943 9789004101555 9789004497948 Year: 1997 Volume: 26 Publisher: Leiden ; New York Brill

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This groundbreaking book, which builds on the author's earlier work in On Gendering Texts , studies how, by what means and to what extent human love, desire and sex, and possibly even 'sexuality', are gendered in the Hebrew Bible. Following a classification and gendering of the linguistic and semantic data, the investigation looks into the construction of male and female bodies in language and ideologies; the praxis and ideology of sex, procreation and contraception; deviation from socio-sexual boundaries (e.g. incest, rape, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution); eroticism and "pornoprophetics". Finally, the work discusses some of the wider sociological and theological implications of the findings.

Confession et perversion : une exploration psychanalytique du discours pervers dans la littérature française moderne
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ISBN: 9042909676 2877235467 Year: 2000 Volume: *14 Publisher: Louvain Paris Sterling, Virginia Peeters


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Kiss my relics : hermaphroditic fictions of the middle ages
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ISBN: 1283250365 9786613250360 0226724603 9780226724607 9781283250368 9780226724614 0226724611 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust: fiction, conceived as a devious contrivance that falsified God's order; and rhetorical opulence, viewed as a vain extravagance. Writing that offered these dangerous allurements came to be known as "hermaphroditic" and, by the later Middle Ages, to be equated with homosexuality. At the margins of these developments, however, some authors began to validate fiction as a medium for truth and a source of legitimate enjoyment, while others began to explore and defend the pleasures of opulent rhetoric. Here David Rollo examines two such texts-Alain de Lille's De planctu Naturae and Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose-arguing that their authors, in acknowledging the liberating potential of their irregular written orientations, brought about a nuanced reappraisal of homosexuality. Rollo concludes with a consideration of the influence of the latter on Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.

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