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... on the mantislike features of the femme fatale, but it has had less to say about her husband, whose disability 60 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES serves as a camera obscura on the noir hero’s existential wounds.11 In Double Indemnity (1944) Phyllis Dietrichson’s husband is on crutches...

... who saves the universe and her husband from a demon much mightier than the one Rama destroyed.10 The Bengal texts that tell the story of Bhagiratha’s birth to two women are primarily Vaishnava texts, glorifying Vishnu, but the infl uence of Shakta traditions is also present in the way...

... that monogamous women who have never had a sexual relationship with any man but their husband are at a higher risk of contracting AIDS than prostitutes will undoubtedly encounter a negative response from many Latin American men and women, for Paternostro mercilessly exposes...

..., and Their Prosthetic Significance .” African Studies 72 , no. 3 : 321 – 52 . Amadiume Ifi . 1987 . Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society . London : Zed Books . Amadiume Ifi . 2005 . “ Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa...

... for a struggle over the moral right to rule. Here geopolitics occludes sexual subjectivity, that of the widow who would burn or be burned upon the death of her husband. Struggles for sexual liberation can also occlude the dif- ference that geopolitical location makes, such as when...

...- culinity, and Law in Medieval Literature, then, is a chapter on a female aristocrat writing for the English court of Henry II, husband of the great literary patron Eleanor of Aquitaine. Marie de France is a fascinating and enigmatic figure, and there are various theories about...

... the definition of what counts as lesbian and interpreted acts of gender transgres- sion—performed by, for instance, cross-dressed actresses, mannish women, female husbands, and female soldiers—as standing in for sexual transgressions. Martha Vicinus registers discomfort with these two approaches and views...

... multiple triads, including the wife-husband-sex worker, the Reynosa residents-US citizens-internal migrants, and the sex worker-missionary-God, the last of which is at the center of Luna's analysis. As she suggests, the triad is not meant to substitute for dyads (e.g., good/bad, heroes/victims, object...

... their husband (Hoad 2007), any interaction between the Kabaka and his subjects was simultaneously metaphorical and corporeal. Without clear boundaries between the metaphorical and the corporeal, any interaction between the Kabaka and, for example, the pages he executed was more complicated than...

... transferred a woman’s property to her husband at the time of marriage, also had the effect of transferring a woman’s property in herself to her husband. Since eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of citizenship relied on notions of independence (perceived as ownership...

... the secret to seek revenge on her former husband, who had recently married another woman — twenty-­one-­year-­old Dorothy Kleinowski. On receipt of this news, the Milwaukee police department arrested Kerwineo, and he was quickly put on trial for disorderly conduct. The Milwaukee press followed...

... despondently at her food. “Everything OK?” I asked. She struggled to speak. And then said simply, “Orlando.” Yeah. Forty- nine people dead. The sick fear of the victims. The horror of the survivors. The grief of lovers, boyfriends, husbands, friends, families. The day before I’d...

..., as the work of domesticity that tends toward bodies. My sister makes a comment, which pulls me out of this mode of domestic inhabitance. She says: “Look, there’s a little John and a little Mark.” She laughs, pointing. John and Mark are the names of my sisters’ husbands...

... for a disparate collection of detribalizing initiatives in federal Indian policy. The discourse of Indian education in particular presents the emotional connection and the division of labor between husband and wife as the paradigmatic model for social order and interaction, and the construction...

... for the people involved. Yet Bannon does not depict her characters’ marriage as superficial or insincere. On the contrary, Bannon paints gay marriage in highly idealistic terms. Her lesbian wife and gay husband flourish together: their mar- riage provides them with emotional stability...

..., is herself a conundrum—for scholars of religion as well as for her devotees. Her priests are female and male sexed women whose initiations are conducted as rites of marriage. They are called jogatis and jogappas , or devadasis , and they call this goddess their husband and mother. Transformations...

... of “doll husbands” during the years in which she was struggling to establish her own relationship to same-­sex love and desire. Hawk Swanson is articulate about her personal and political reasons for pursuing projects, explaining that she often uses moments of unexpected...

...Figure 1. In the midst of a nationwide crackdown on non-monogamy, a range of sources in the mainstream and at the margins offer glimpses of both poly utopianism and poly pessimism. “Two Happy, Handsome Wives, One Husband in One House.” The Washington Herald . November 18, 1906. ...

... of Southern Cali- fornia. She has published Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (1994) and Swirl, a poetry collection (2003), and her book Cinematic Modernism: H. D., Stein, Williams, and Moore is forthcoming. She is currently working on a biography of Bryher, The Female Husband: Story of a Transgender...