Topics in Representations

The Body, Gender, and Sexuality

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These articles examine the changing representations of the body, gender, and sexuality and the modes of social organization and control that have developed in relation to them throughout history. From a variety of perspectives--economic, political, social, medical, and literary--they reflect on the importance of those changes to the founding of the modern social order.




 

Svetlana Alpers, "Engendering Art," foreword, Winter 1989, 25: 1-2.

 

Carol Armstrong, "The Reflexive and the Possessive View: Thoughts on Kertesz, Brandt, and the Photographic Nude," Winter 1989, 25: 57-70.

 

Jonathan Beck, "Genesis, Sexual Antagonism, and the Defective Couple of the Twelfth-Century Jeu d'Adam," Winter 1990, 29: 124-44.

 

Peter Benson, "Freud and the Visual," Winter 1994, 45: 101-16.

 

Harry Berger, Jr., "Bodies and Texts," Winter 1987, 17: 144-66.

 

Charles Bernheimer, "Degas's Brothels: Voyeurism and Ideology," Fall 1987, 20: 158-86.

 

R. Howard Bloch, "Chaucer's Maiden's Head: 'The Physician's Tale' and the Poetics of Virginity," Fall 1989, 28: 113-34.

 

R. Howard Bloch, "Medieval Misogyny," Fall 1987, 20: 1-24.

 

R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson, eds., Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy, special issue, Fall 1987, number 20.

 

Daniel Boyarin, "'Language Inscribed by History on the Bodies of Living Beings': Midrash and Martyrdom," Winter 1989, 25: 139-51.

 

Daniel Boyarin, "Paul and the Genealogy of Gender," Winter 1993, 41: 1-33.

 

Bill Brown, "Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture," Spring 1997, 58: 24-48.

 

Gillian Brown, "The Empire of Agoraphobia," Fall 1987, 20: 134-57.

 

Christine Buci-Glucksmann, "Catastophic Utopia: The Feminine as Allegory of the Modern" (trans. Katherine Streip), Spring 1986, 14: 220-29.

 

Caroline Walker Bynum, "Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women," Summer 1985, 11: 1-25.

 

Margaret D. Carroll, "The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence," Winter 1989, 25: 3-30.

 

Margaret D. Carroll, "'In the Name of God and Profit': Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait," Fall 1993, 44: 96-132.

 

Lisa Cartwright, "'Experiments of Destruction': Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology," Fall 1992, 40: 129-52.

 

Terry Castle, "The Female Thermometer," Winter 1987, 17: 1-27.

 

Terry Castle, "Marie Antoinette Obsession," Spring 1992, 38: 1-38.

 

Tamara Chin, "Orienting Mimesis: Marriage and the Book of Songs," Spring 2006, 94: 53-79.

 

Barbara T. Christian, "Camouflaging Race and Gender," Summer 1996, 55: 120-28.

 

Anna Clark, "Queen Caroline and the Sexual Politics of Popular Culture in London, 1820," Summer 1990, 31: 47-68.

 

T. J. Clark, "Freud's Cézanne," Fall 1995, 52: 94-122.

 

Carol J. Clover, "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film," Fall 1987, 20: 187-228.

 

Carol J. Clover, "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe," Fall 1993, 44: 1-28.

 

Alain Corbin, "Commercial Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France: A System of Images and Regulations" (trans. Katherine Streip) Spring 1986, 14: 209-19.

 

Christopher Craft, "'Kiss Me with Those Red Lips': Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula," Fall 1984, 8: 107-33.

 

Christopher Craft, "Alias Bunbury: Desire and Termination in The Importance of Being Earnest," Summer 1990, 31: 19-46.

 

Jonathan Crewe, "In the Field of Dreams: Transvestism in Twelfth Night and The Crying Game," Spring 1995, 50: 101-21.

 

The Cultural Display of the Body, special issue, Winter 1987, number 17.

 

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