Celibacies American Modernism and Sexual Life

Name: Celibacies American Modernism and Sexual Life
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ISBN: 9780822355687

ISBN-10: 082235568X

ISBN-13: 9780822355687

Edition: 2013

Authors: Benjamin Kahan

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In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction The Expressive Hypothesis



The Longue Durï¿½e of Celibacy: Boston Marriage, Female Friendship, and the Invention of Homosexuality



Celibate Time



The Other Harlem Renaissance: Father Divine, Celibate Economics, and the Making of Black Sexuality



The Celibate American: Closetedness, Emigration, and Queer Citizenship before Stonewall



Philosophical Bachelorhood, Philosophical Spinsterhood, and Celibate Modernity


Conclusion Asexuality/ Neutrality/Relationality


Notes


Bibliography


Index