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Free Download R. Bach, "Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality"
English | 2007 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1403976546, 1349537225 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare’s plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings of Shakespearean texts, including King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello, and other Renaissance drama, the book reveals a sexual world before heterosexuality. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality shows how revisions and criticism of Renaissance drama contributed to the emergence of heterosexuality.It also shows how changing ideas about status, adultery, friendship, and race were factors in that emergence.

Free Download Jonathan Ned Katz, "The Invention of Heterosexuality"
English | ISBN: 0226426017 | 2007 | 305 pages | AZW3 | 425 KB
"Heterosexuality," assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term "heterosexuality" referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture.

Free Download Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom
by Grace Lavery
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1478025891 | 125 Pages | True PDF | 5 MB