...Feminists on both sides of the 1980s sex wars used Marxist theory to analyze sexual violence, its relationship to pornography, and whether pornography liberated or oppressed women. In their analyses, they considered three core Marxist concepts: class, commodity, and consumption. While most agreed...

...‘Gender ideology’, an umbrella term covering sex education, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and gender mainstreaming, figures at the heart of various political conflicts in Poland (and throughout Central Europe) and is presented as the major threat to the nation. Political analysts assert...

... women agency, by encouraging them to reconsider their attitudes about and personal relationship to intimacy. Sex-positive messages sought to help wives reframe the act as something that could be mutually enjoyable, as opposed to a marital obligation to please their husbands. However, the chapter also...

... for escaping certain gender relations or an attempt to take full advantage of other configurations of them. We explore the different dimensions of desire by looking at the continuum from sex to love as ways to ensure a better future and how this continuum sits in the post-socialist gender orders...

... a conception of royal authority which arises from questions of sex and religious difference. Castigos admonitions Fourth Lateran Council Alfonso X king of Castile chastity chaste ideals criticism Sancho IV king of Castile Rodrigo Visigoth king Eve Jewess of Toledo Rahel la Fermosa supposed lover...

... of vampirism, concentrating particularly on the face as a locus of signification as to an individual's health and character. It also explores the relationship between masturbation, consumption and female same-sex desire, and shows how these lesbian liaisons were often described in predatory or vampiric terms...

... and the start of the twentieth-century. It then briefly describes how this book is aligned with the field of the history of the body and the history of the self, as well as with the history of same-sex sexuality, cross-dressing and hermaphroditism. Franz Ludwig von Neugebauer's Hermaphroditismus beim...

...This chapter describes how physicians' relationships to the law had become troubled by the end of the nineteenth century. It discusses the conflict between legal purpose and a humanitarian perspective that came to a head in discussions concerning plastic surgery on genitals and secondary sex...

... Jardine Matheson migration Patten Chris population trade British Council media television police Colonial Office Handover race crime government housing law New Territories lease riots Black Robert Governor of Hong Kong 1958–64 modernisation interracial marriage sex sexuality...

... Camille Erich Wulffen Georges Manolescu Edith Cadivec Legal reform expert case study crime novel autobiography of criminals con men sex crimes In 1927, the leading illustrated weekly Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (BIZ) introduced its readers to the twenty-one most...

...This chapter examines the implications for Irish Catholicism that the ‘Yes’ vote in the May 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage may have for the social and cultural position of the Catholic church in contemporary Ireland and in the future. His analysis channels the thinking of Ferdinand Tönnies...

..., work, love and family life to explore the impact of the new liberation politics on these experiences. The chapter shows the social and psychic pressures of trying to negotiate prevailing mainstream social norms to conceive radical ways of living and being every day. Rowbotham Sheila selfhood sex...

... worrying was inter-racial sex. Inter-racial sex was fearful because it could suggest emotional intimacy and, thus, an inversion of the racial order. Worse still, by whites’ logic once a single white woman had fallen, the prestige of all white woman was endangered. Once white women showed themselves...

... for higher education occurred at precisely the same time as she acknowledged the ‘iniquitous English law of sex slavery’ that enforced the loss of personal identity of every wife in the land. For her, the challenge to ‘sex slavery’ was the taproot on which all other causes were grafted. Buglawton images...

... provides key insights into the shift from rural to urban society and the decline in the importance of the Catholic Church in everyday life. This chapter explores how McGahern reveals what it was like to make love and have sex in Ireland during the shift from a Catholic culture of self-denial to a modern...

... wife of Kenelm Paston William II or III Stanley née Vernon Margaret wife of Sir Edward child marriages gentry nobility sex bastards illegitimacy north of England In spite of historians’ extensive efforts to assess the extent and scope of illegitimacy among the population outside...

... Isabel Holden née Elston Elizabeth Holden Rafe jointure separation women gender sex mistresses servants illegitimacy north of England material goods punishment ‘Butt as good natures through humaine frailty are oftentimes misled: soe he fell to lovea ladey of quality; which...

... Cardinal Fitzwilliam family noblewomen cuckoldry masculinity sex north of england separation authority An honest man that had but one eie and a quean to his wife, entring vpon the sudden into his bed chamber by night, a knaue chanced to be then a bed with her, who hearing her husbands voice...

... with audience research studies on this national AIDS awareness campaign, and, in so doing, seeks to highlight the ways in which the condom has come to define national identity, sexual citizenship, and the production and recognition of difference. Altman D safer sex education AIDS media representations ‘Grim...

...During the mid-1980s, the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. This book investigates the consequences of this shift in the object's meaning. Focusing on the US, British and Australian contexts, it addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives...