Past and present : perspectives on gender and love / edited by Kelly Gardiner and Sina V. Pfister.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardiner, Kelly, editor.

Pfister, Sina V., editor.

Series:

Critical issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Philosophy.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015.How do humans conceive of, enact, embody, perform, control, commodify, proscribe and portray love and gender?How are our bodies, our identities, our beliefs, our representations of ourselves affected by love and gender - or perceptions of love and gender?What don't we know?.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Kelly Gardiner and Sina V. Pfister

An Inspiring Mother: How the River Goddess Maa Ganga Encourages Both Men and Women to Care for Their Family / Sina V. Pfister

Malaysian Muslim Gay and Lesbian Community’s Perspective of the Concept of Domestic Partnership and Marriage in the Qur’an / M. Izwan M. Yusof , M. Najib Abd. Kadir , Mazlan Ibrahim and Tg. Intan Zarina Tg. Puji

Vulnerable Genders, Vulnerable Loves: Genealogies in Jewish Religion / Marianne Schleicher

‘The Bible Doesn't Say Anything About Trans People, Does it Sir?’: Transgender And Transsexual Narratives of the Relationships Between Religion and Education / Andrea Mathews

Love, Alterity and Gender Relations: Re-thinking the Myth of Eros and Psyche / Wernmei Yong Ade

Conditions of (Im)Possibility: True Love in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 and Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy / Deirdre Byrne

‘Toutes des putes sauf ma mère’: On the Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love / Dylan Sebastian Evans

An Unconventional Ménage à trois: The Fluidity of Love and Desire in Anne Fontaine’s Nathalie / Angela Tumini

Romancing the Sexes: Representations of Marital Love in Etruria / Bridget Sandhoff

Fictions of Love: Writing about Seventeenth Century Ideas of Love and Gender / Kelly Gardiner

Queer Love: Love Policies, Possible Love and Tolerance / Itoitz Rodrigo Jusué

The (Im)possibility of Love: Women and the Problem of the Feminine / Eileen Clements

Gender, Health and Plastic Surgeries / Bartosz Płotka

Transforming Queer Culture: There’s an App for That / Tara L. Gill

Problematizing Love, Sex and Marriage: Contraceptive Advertisements in Bangladesh / Umme Busra Fateha Sultana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84888-391-9

OCLC:

1096243774

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883918 DOI