Sexual Sources and Influential Erotics

In closely examining such machinations, Cavell and Dickinson use the lenses of family, media, medicine, gender, race, religion, and law to map out how categories of sexual identity have shifted over the years, and how such shifts do not necessarily neatly parallel changes in the arenas of socio-poli...

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Published in:Canadian literature 2008 (197), p.122
Main Author: Lesk, Andrew
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthologies
Atwood, Margaret (1939- )
Bloom, Harold (1930-2019)
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965)
Heterosexuality
Kristeva, Julia (1941- )
Medicine
Munro, Alice
Poetry
Poets
Politics
Religion
Self concept
Yang, Andrew
Young, Jean
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Summary:In closely examining such machinations, Cavell and Dickinson use the lenses of family, media, medicine, gender, race, religion, and law to map out how categories of sexual identity have shifted over the years, and how such shifts do not necessarily neatly parallel changes in the arenas of socio-political awareness or national policy (to name a few). "Sex and Race" is wonderfully representative, though it, in contrast with the subsequent "Sex and Religion" section, looks like a ghetto; that is to say, the selections for "Sex and Religion" appear to embrace white Christianity and nothing else, while the social makeup of the authors in "Sex and Race" doesn't really appear elsewhere at all.
ISSN:0008-4360