Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Transgression (Ethics) --- Anthropology. --- Taboo. --- Magic.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture"--

American literature --- Taboo in literature. --- Taboo in art. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion. The author distinguishes different senses in which it might be said that something can't be said.The first part looks at the question of whether ineffability is a coherent idea. Part two evaluates two families of arguments regarding whether ineffable states of affairs actually exist: the argument from mysticism and the argument from epistemic boundedness. Part thr

Ineffable, The. --- Unutterable, The --- Language and languages --- Taboo, Linguistic --- Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? After one hundred years of intense argument, a broad consensus has emerged on the first two questions, but the debate over the others continues. That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud’s view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives—a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association. This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry which reexamine these questions.

Incest. --- Consanguinity. --- Inbreeding. --- Taboo. --- Purity, Ritual --- Religion --- Sacrilege --- Breeding --- Consanguinity --- Marriage --- Heredity --- Inbreeding --- Incest --- Kinship --- Sex crimes --- Sexual intercourse --- Prohibited degrees --- Taboo

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Seitdem 2010 der frühere sexuelle Missbrauch am Berliner Canisius-Kolleg bekannt wurde, wird auch in Deutschland intensiv über den sexuellen Missbrauch an Minderjährigen durch Vertreter der katholischen Kirche diskutiert. Mit der 2018 veröff entlichten MHG-Studie begann die wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung, an der seitdem Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen beteiligt sind. Der Band trägt den bisherigen Forschungsstand aus den unterschiedlichen Fachgebieten (Geschichtswissenschaft, Pädagogik, Recht, Psychologie) zusammen. Deutlich wird, welche innerkirchlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungsfaktoren das Fehlverhalten von Geistlichen ermöglichten. Darüber hinaus wird danach gefragt, welche Spezifika der sexuelle Missbrauch in der katholischen Kirche aufweist und inwieweit er in gesamtgesellschaftliche Phänomene eingeordnet werden muss. Zudem zeigt das Buch, inwiefern gerade historiographische Zugänge dazu beitragen können, Licht in die katholischen Dunkelräume zu bringen.

Katholische Kirsche --- historische Aufarbeitung --- Tabuisierung --- sexual abuse --- Taboo --- Catholic Church --- historical reappraisal --- Geschichtswissenschaft --- Psychologie