Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and Its InfluencesPatsy Fowler, Alan Jackson A selection of essays providing a broad range of critical approaches encouraging students and teachers of the novel to consider it from a variety of points of view. |
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Page 183
... male subject to repress and deny his desire for men contributed to the eighteenth - century emergence of a " third gender , " the homosexual male . Sexual acts between males , once categorized as simply an aspect ( however denigrated ) of ...
... male subject to repress and deny his desire for men contributed to the eighteenth - century emergence of a " third gender , " the homosexual male . Sexual acts between males , once categorized as simply an aspect ( however denigrated ) of ...
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... male - misses " constitute not a group of individuals who happen to share the same pleasure in sexual acts , but a category of persons ostensibly characterized by a disturbed relation to gender ( 160 ) . In Foucauldian terms , male ...
... male - misses " constitute not a group of individuals who happen to share the same pleasure in sexual acts , but a category of persons ostensibly characterized by a disturbed relation to gender ( 160 ) . In Foucauldian terms , male ...
Page 253
... male ho- mosexuality breaks out of the neat hierarchy of pleasures set forth in the novel . Unlike lesbianism , that is , male homosexuality is beyond any accounting by the novel's marriage plot . Rather than being one of the many ...
... male ho- mosexuality breaks out of the neat hierarchy of pleasures set forth in the novel . Unlike lesbianism , that is , male homosexuality is beyond any accounting by the novel's marriage plot . Rather than being one of the many ...
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Sapphic Erotics | 3 |
Phallocentric | 49 |
Idealized and Realistic Portrayals of Prostitution In John | 81 |
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