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History of civilization --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Flagellation --- Sadomasochism --- History --- History. --- Flagellation - History --- Sadomasochism - History

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Domination sexuelle et soumission --- Masochism --- Masochisme --- Sadism --- Sadisme --- Seksuele overheersing en onderwerping --- Sexual dominance and submission --- Masochism. --- Sadomasochism. --- Sexual dominance and submission. --- Psychoanalyse --- klinische beschouwingen --- klinische beschouwingen.

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Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did it vanish from penal theory, policy, or practice. Far from displaying a steady decline that accelerated with the Enlightenment, physical punishment was contested throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, its application expanding and contracting under diverse pressures. Moreover, despite the integration of penal incarceration into criminal justice systems since the nineteenth century, modern nation states and colonial regimes increased rather than limited the use of corporal punishment. Flogging Others thus challenges a common understanding of modernization and Western identity and underscores earlier civilizations' nuanced approaches to punishment, deviance, and the human body. Today as in the past, corporal punishment thrives due to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously, either as a measure acting upon a deviant's body or as a practice that epitomizes - in the eyes of external observers - a culture's backwardness.

History of civilization --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Corporal punishment --- Flagellation --- 343.25 <09> --- Flagellants and flagellation --- Flogging --- Scourging --- Whipping --- Asceticism --- Sadomasochism --- Physical punishment --- Spanking --- Punishment --- History. --- Lijfstraffen. Doodstraf--Geschiedenis van ... --- 343.25 <09> Lijfstraffen. Doodstraf--Geschiedenis van ... --- History --- Lijfstraffen. Doodstraf--Geschiedenis van .. --- Lijfstraffen. Doodstraf--Geschiedenis van . --- Lijfstraffen. Doodstraf--Geschiedenis van --- history, identity, corporal punishment.

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From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940's, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity. Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister. He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women. Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women.

Hommes dans la culture populaire --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Mannen in de literatuur --- Mannen in de volkscultuur --- Men in literature --- Men in popular culture --- Psychological study of literature --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- Reverse discrimination --- Masochism --- Men in literature. --- Masculinity --- Men, White --- Discrimination --- Psychic masochism --- Paraphilias --- Personality disorders --- Sadomasochism --- Suffering --- Popular culture --- White men --- United States of America

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Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid’s Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid’s text. The Ars amatoria ironically proposes the erotic potential of violence, and this aspect of the Ars proved to be enormously influential. Ovid’s discourse on erotic violence provides a script for Heloise’s epistolary expression of desire for Abelard. The Roman de la Rose extends the directives of the Ars with a rhetorical flourish and poetic excess that tests the limits of Ovidian irony. While Christine de Pizan critiqued the representations of erotic violence in the Rose, Chaucer appropriates the Ovidian discourse from the Roman de la Rose to construct the Wife of Bath—a female figure that today's readers find uncannily familiar. Well written and provocative, this book will interest scholars of premodern literature, especially those who work on Medieval English and French, as well as classical, texts. Marilynn Desmond draws on feminist and queer theory, which places Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath at the cutting edge of debates in gender and sexuality.

Literature, Medieval --- Sadomasochism in literature. --- Littérature médiévale --- Sadomasochisme dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Ovid, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Influence --- Roman influences. --- Influence. --- Littérature médiévale --- Sadomasochisme dans la littérature --- Fiction --- Social problems --- Sexology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 500-1499 --- Antiquity --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- OVIDE (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO), POETE LATIN, 43 AV. J.-C. - 17 AP. J.-C. --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), 1340-1400 --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- INFLUENCE CLASSIQUE --- L'ART D'AIMER --- CANTERBURY TALES --- Violence --- Love --- Literature --- Sexuality --- Book --- Eroticism