Advanced search Subscribe to our newsletter and you'll continuously be informed about our new books, series and journals. You can customize this e-mail newsletter to your particular needs and interests. Newsletters include special discount codes. To subscribe or change existing preferences press the subscribe button	Series and Journals Negotiating Sexual Idioms. Image, Text, Performance. KOHLKE, Marie-Luise and Luisa ORZA (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2008, XXXI, 222 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2491-5 € 50 / US$ 68 Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 53 Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance affords new theoretical approaches and insights into the complexity of sexual discourse pervading contemporary cultures, exploring sexuality’s role in dominant conceptualisations of self and society, in patterns of political belonging and exclusion, and in societal transformations. Opening with a substantial critical introduction, this collection of twelve essays and creative pieces contributes to significant current debates regarding sexual rights and their violation, queer theory and identity politics, sexual fantasy formations and strategies of pleasure, and the celebration of sexual diversity, topics explored through a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gender and film studies, religious philosophy, neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature, sociology, pornography, and performance art. The volume positions the subjects of sex and sexuality as crucial to our ethical understanding of the human, both in individual and communal terms, exploring how claims for sexual subjectivity and citizenship are formulated and the entitlements they entail. The analytical insights offered signal important new directions for critical engagement with the socio-political construction of sexuality and its strategic deployment within the cultural imaginary. Designed to appeal equally to scholars, students, and general readers, Negotiating Sexual Idioms will prove essential reading for those interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to reading sex and sexuality within inter-cultural contexts, from the early modern period to the present-day. Contents Acknowledgements Marie-Luise KOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual Idioms PART I Desiring Subjects and Sexual Others Ilana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” Tahseen BÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between Us Jan Peterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representations of the Hillbilly Marie-Luise KOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Fiction PART II Beings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse Shalmalee PALEKAR: Soma-Rasa Katerina LIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography Erzsébet BARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and Desire Marek M. WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Love beyond Transcendence PART III Sexibition, Power, and the Gaze Jennifer TYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of Sexual Artefacts Benjamin JACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe’s First Modern Obscene Text Godwin SIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian Fiction Luisa ORZA: One Notes on Contributors Marie-Luise Kohlke is a contemporary literature specialist in neo-Victorian fiction and trauma narratives at Swansea University, Wales, and the General and Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Neo-Victorian Studies e-Journal. Luisa Orza is a writer and researcher in sexual and reproductive rights, with a special interest in power relations, gender, and the dynamics of negotiated dominance and submission.	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl