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The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in premodern Europe. Among the topics considered are the visibility of sexual offenses and the construction of passions; the geographical range extends to Great Britain, with extended attention also to France as well as Northern and Eastern Europe. The result is a groundbreaking volume that adds significantly to our understanding of premodern European history, history of sexualities, gender studies, religious history, and many other fields.

Sex --- History --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- sexual desires, sin, sex crimes, moral offences, early modern history.

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Amid saints and sinners, open secrets and queer codes, the mechanisms of confession and the infliction of torture, what is unspeakable in the Middle Ages - and who decides? Aspiring to the ineffable glories of heaven or plunging down to the murky depths of "unmentionable sin", this very functional concept becomes attached to the very good and the very bad in medieval literature and culture. This book investigates the concept and use of the trope of unspeakability from pre-Conquest to late medieval literature in England, and the relationship between that which cannot be said and cultural and social understandings of gender and sexuality. The question of how the unspeakable returns to the realm of discourse drives the exploration of texts, including the Exeter Book, Old English hagiography, Ancrene Wisse, Old French romance, Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Legend of Good Women. Theorising the work this concept performs, asking who the unspeakable works for and who it works on, this study takes in the compulsive confessions of penitent whores and anchorites, the tales of could-be sodomites and crypto-lesbians, the howls of wolf-men (and wolf-women), and the rebellion and rhetoric of the tongueless. These texts show how in representations of gender and sexuality in medieval literature, the unspeakable challenges the voiceless to overcome silence, showing the limits of language, the workings of power and the desire to be heard. Victoria Blud gained her PhD from King's College London and is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

Sex. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- English literature --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1100-1500 --- Middle English Language, Period of

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Sex. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- #SBIB:613.88H20 --- #SBIB:316.7C121 --- Opvattingen over seksualiteit (historiek, moraal) --- Cultuursociologie: gedragspatronen, levensstijl --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of culture --- Sex --- Handbooks --- Heterosexuality --- Homosexuality

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This collection of essays offers twelve innovative approaches to contemporary literary criticism. The contributors, women scholars who range from undergraduate students to contingent faculty to endowed chairs, stage a critical dialogue that raises vital questions about the aims and forms of criticism— its discourses and politics, as well as the personal, institutional, and economic conditions of its production. Offering compelling feminist and queer readings of avant-garde twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, the essays included here are playful, performative, and theoretically savvy. Written for students, scholars, and professors in literature and creative writing, Reading and Writing Experimental Texts provides examples for doing literary scholarship in innovative ways. These provocative readings invite conversation and community, reminding us that if the stakes of critical innovation are high, so are the pleasures.

Criticism. --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Creative writing. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Literary Theory. --- Creative Writing. --- Culture and Gender. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Social aspects --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Sex. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- Theory

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Missionary Positions examines the context for Christian outreach to people in the sex industry. Over the last 20 years, faith-based organisations have become more engaged in ministering with sex workers. But what are the methods and desired outcomes that undergird pastoral practice in this field? Most Christians see prostitution as evil, and those who sell sex are considered broken victims in need of restoration. Yet the voices and experiences of sex workers themselves often challenge these assumptions. Using feminist and postcolonial perspectives, interviews with Christian practitioners in Australia and personal narrative, Lauren McGrow carves out a space for the dynamic theological agency and life complexity of sex workers to be more fully acknowledged in faith-based outreach projects.

Sex --- Church work --- Sex workers --- Sex-oriented businesses --- 24 --- 24 Praktische theologie --- 24 Theologie pratique --- Praktische theologie --- Theologie pratique --- Commercial sex --- Sex businesses --- Sex industry --- Sex-related businesses --- Sex shops --- Sexually oriented businesses --- Business --- Persons --- Church work with adults --- Institutional church --- Ministry --- Theology, Practical --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Sex (Theology) --- Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Church work - Australia --- Sex workers - Australia --- Sex-oriented businesses - Australia