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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Brian Connolly Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Liberalism's Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex: in the Nineteenth-Century United States Brian Connolly Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century and reaching its apex in the mid nineteenth century, a discourse...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Lucinda Ramberg Copyright © 2017 University of Illinois Press 2017 Who and What is Sex For?: Notes on Theogamy and the Sexuality ofReligion Lucinda Ramberg Long before History ofSexuality, Volume I, Foucault suggested, in praise of Georges Bataille, that discourse on sexuality had been shaped...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... ofperson can be presented as a believable and worthy victim of sexual violation?2 Not anyone, it would seem.The resolution of these questions in the area of sex trafficking has been to focus on blameless, that is, not sexually active, young women to whom great injury has been done, often following...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 racial reproduction sexual citizenship racialized sex system white sexual supremacy 1970s sexual/reproductive public policy In the 1960s and 1970s the civil rights movement and the so-called sexual revolution competed...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Caleb Knapp Abstract This essay revisits a familiar but seldom discussed anecdote of same-sex sexual abuse in the archive of Atlantic slavery: the story of Luke in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Through a close reading of Luke’s story, the article advances three...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... versions of history, discussing how different groups mobilize the past in contemporary Ethiopia. It begins by exploring the imperial, Christian roots of the country’s penal codes, interrogating how the state mobilizes such histories to criminalize same-sex desires and practices. The article then focuses...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to historical representation, which involves reading sources on sex and gender for what they say about adjacent historical categories and constellating discrepant historical situations in ways that speak to ongoing conundrums about identity and alliance. With respect to the latter, the authors consider...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Sigrid Vertommen Abstract Surrogacy is a popular assisted reproductive practice in Israel, and it has been legal since 1996, albeit, until recently, only for married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples who aspired to genetic parenthood were therefore “forced” to look for available surrogates...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 212–219.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., in some sense, radically reconfigured, if not simply overturned. As an examplefrom the realm ofjurisprudence, the claim of a right to "same-sex" marriage would have been almost entirely unrecognizable as a legitimate constitutional claim in 1988 {the year of pub lication of The Sexual Contract) , and yet...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 169–183.
Published: 01 October 2012
... research faced enormous challenges of translation.I started with what seemed to be two simple, coherent, research questions: first, in a cultural-legal context where same-sex desire was con sidered shamefulandsame-sex practices were illegal, but within which trans- 171 INTERVENTION Najmabadi sexuality...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... is involved? -Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question; 1843 We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power; on the contrary, one tracks along the course laid out by the general deploy ment of sexuality. -Michel Foucault, TheHistory ofSexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, 1976 Emancipation...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... as the more recent work on the significance of sex and gender in Western political thought. The edited volume, Illusio n ofConsent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, featuring contributions from Jane Mansbridge, Moira Gatens, Anne Phillips, Robert E. Goodin, Alan Ryan, Philip Pettit, and others, is testimony...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of men against women and the absence of women's violence against men. Such an argument would naturalize the positions and render the cases of the feminine use of violence and masculine use ofnonviolence unintelligible. Our hypothesis is that social order depends on the social construction of one sex said...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Ed Cohen Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 A "Special" Difference: For a Foucauldian/Feminist Genealogy ofFreud Ed Cohen As far as the differentiation into two sexes is concerned, we can know something certain about only one of the terms of the difference. [ Out...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... itself. —Hortense Spillers, “‘All the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother’: Race and Psychoanalysis” In the work of Sigmund Freud, binary sexual difference derives from the Oedipal complex. The fundamental concept of human difference—sex—is explicable through...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 feminism essentialism body poetics interpellation I hesitated for a long time before writing a book on woman . The subject is irritating, especially for women . —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex . Denise Riley’s “Am I That Name...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... strength ofAfrican polities.3 Thus, examples including the refusal of the Obas in Benin to sell any male slaves to the Portuguese after 1530, and unbalanced sex ratios like those found on board the Santiago are noted in the scholarship on African slavery primarily in relation to the strength or weak ness...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 193–202.
Published: 01 October 2019
... clinics in working-class neighborhoods across Europe.An energetic organizer, Reichfounded, in 1922, the Sex-Hygiene Clinics forWorkers and Employees in Vienna; in 1929, also in Vienna, the Socialist Society for SexualAdvice and Sexual Research; in 1931, in Berlin, the German Society for Proletarian Sexual...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
...). They instead reported Cecilia’s own claims for how she knew she was with child. The documents wrestle with what to do about what is essentially Cecilia’s counterclaim. She stated that she knows she is pregnant because she stopped menstruating and because she previously had sex with male prisoners. Reggio’s...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... It isusefulhere to recall the two-sexed model ofthe body, or sexual dimor phism, that notoriously shadowed Enlightenment-era theories ofuniversal rights. As Thomas Laqueur observed: "Ironically, the genderless rational subject engendered opposite, highly gendered sexes:'1 Laqueur and others have, in turn, shown...
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