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Celibacies : American modernism and sexual life / Benjamin Kahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahan, Benjamin.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual abstinence--Political aspects--United States.
- Sexual abstinence.
- Celibacy--Political aspects--United States.
- Celibacy.
- Arts--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Benjamin Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality.
- Contents:
- The long durée 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355687
- 082235568X
- 9780822377184
- 0822377187
- OCLC:
- 1143651964
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