... differences from other courtship narratives. It considers the novel to be about the silencing of female experience, especially the silence surrounding female sexuality. The chapter also shows that the novel was planned when Woolf experienced two close losses, and discusses Woolf's involvement...

..., however, suggests many other parallel readings that are related to decayed female sexuality and productivity. The chapter also looks at an anti-Semitic racial unconscious that was common during the years when this short story was written. It concludes that Braddon’s mutations of the Gothic code show her...

..., because it brings to the fore Kristeva's attention to issues of key concern to feminism, including the micro-political aspects of subjectivity and politics, the mutually constitutive realms of embodiment, psychic and social-political life, and the theorisation of female sexuality. aesthetics crisis...

...This chapter presents a variegated depiction of female sexuality seen from their own point of view, beginning with Carollee Schneeman’s Meat Joy (1964). Woolf’s metaphors for the female sex and lesbian desire is brought to the scene in interracial encounters in She Must...

... and playfully perverse image of femininity that defies normative conceptions of female sexuality. For contemporary feminism, and theorists of popular culture more generally, it perhaps matters less if Lady Gaga turns out to be more ‘material girl’ than ‘postfeminist icon’ in the long run than that the debate...

... Chaucer Cohen Jeffrey Jerome Gray Douglas Salter David Chaucer The Miller’s Tale Medieval Masculinities Squeamishness Female sexuality Absolon, the squeamish parish clerk in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is perhaps a predictable focus for an investigation of the games medieval authors...

...The chapter begins with an intertextual reading of Mansfield's short story, ‘Bliss’ and Murry's Still Life. That reading emphasises differences between Murry and Mansfield in their fictional treatment of the concept of ‘bliss’, female sexuality, bisexuality, and the power dynamics...

... Civic Government Scotland Bill Sexual offences Sex and society Scots Law Sexual norms Double moral standard Masculinity Female sexuality The most notable contrast between the early and late twentieth-century studies in this volume is the degree of exposure of ‘illicit and unnatural’ sexual...

...The chapter, “Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome,” by Antony Augoustakis, unravels the nexus of female sexuality and feminine rivalry as depicted in the second season of the series Rome. This chapter focuses on the portrayal...

... sexuality implies an essential sexuality that is already in and of the world while the presentation of white female sexuality always offers the potential for reinvention. While the videos presented are all still clearly concerned with the construction of black female sexuality, it is a sexuality...