This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary-works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others-it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed 'homosexual sodomy' and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq.The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description of sodomy as 'that utterly ...
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This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary-works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others-it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed 'homosexual sodomy' and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq.The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description of sodomy as 'that utterly confused category.' Without collapsing questions of historical difference, it works to articulate relations between the early modern period and our own, between a time before the homo/heterosexual divide and the modern regimes that assume it.
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Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Prior owner's name inked on first page upper right corner, else text clean; binding tight; very minor wear to covers. 295 pages. Illustrated.
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Near Fine. Black-and-white illustrations. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Previous owner's signature on front inside cover. Near fine condition.; Black-and-white illustrations; 12mo.; xvi, 295 pages.
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VG-(Some underlining and notations throughout) Color illus. wraps; 295 pp.; A few bw figures. Discusses representations of sodomy in the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and others, as well as in theater and the conquest and colonization of the Americas.
