1 option
After the lovedeath : sexual violence and the making of culture / Lawrence Kramer.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role.
- Sex crimes--Psychological aspects.
- Sex crimes.
- Women--Crimes against--Psychological aspects.
- Women.
- Masculinity.
- Femininity.
- Sex role in art.
- Violence in art.
- Sex in art.
- Sex in music.
- Gender & Ethnic Studies.
- Social Sciences.
- Gender Studies & Sexuality.
- sex role.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender & Ethnic Studies.
- Social Sciences.
- Gender Studies & Sexuality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- After the love death
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
- Summary:
- After the Lovedeath is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to the their nineteenth-century sources. He draws on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. Kramer explores this fatal normality in the self-contradictions of masculinity, the shifting alignments of femininity, authority, and desire, and the interdependency of hetero- and homosexuality. At the same time, he offers glimpses of a saving counter-normality through which gender can free itself from a rigid system of polarities.
- Contents:
- After the lovedeath: sexual violence and the making of culture
- Oedipus tyrannos (swellfoot the tyrant)
- A little extra piece
- "Any man has to, wants to, needs to"
- The bathers
- Brimstone
- A whole piece more
- Violence and misrecognition
- (Coup de) grace notes
- A portmanteau
- The first wolf dream (1951)
- Reorientations
- Aria
- Gensynderergy
- Le baton ivre
- Lifelines
- Fascinatin' rhythm
- Mincing along
- Unedited text of the second wolf dream (ca. 1972)
- A blind spot
- Love knots
- The pobble that has no toes
- Becoming disowned
- The politest castration
- A sight for sore eyes
- "In the far south"
- Aural sex
- Counterparts
- Obsequies
- Just married
- Inside stories
- Arietta
- The pozdnyshevian art
- Diva
- An asymmetry
- "Isolde sinks, as if transfigured..."
- "Softly in Brangäne’s arms..."
- "Onto Tristan’s body"
- Chop logic
- Tall tales
- Cogito e_go sum
- Cavatina
- Pleiades
- Clef change
- Epiphany
- Conundrum
- Minstrels
- Tableau vivant
- Passing
- Riddles of the sphinx
- Straight and narrow
- Tuning up: the "Kreutzer" sonata
- The soundtrack of the sirens: Prague to Hollywood
- Ruling bodies
- Bad signs
- In my second
- Heterosexless desire
- "I wanna be a football hero"
- Aubade
- Ah! but
- Cyanosis
- Homoerogenous zones
- "It glides quickly in through my ears"
- Latent remedies
- The law is an ass
- Ménages à trois
- Ralph and Alice
- Ear to the ground
- Tinnitus
- Pole star
- The closet within the closet
- Conquest of the pole
- Breaking ranks
- Odd couples
- Depolarizing
- "Impassioned to the point of obscenity"
- Erotoautism
- Differences
- Piece work
- Holding it in
- At the crossroads
- The white wolf.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed June 12, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- After the lovedeath.
- ISBN:
- 9780520925502
- 0520925505
- 0585033897
- 9780585033891
- OCLC:
- 42330139
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.