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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 146–154.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Anjali Arondekar Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 What More Remains: Slavery, Sexuality, South Asia AnjaliArondekar What more remains? At stake here is slavery's plangent entanglement with the idea of the archive. As emergent archival forms push against, or even record...
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Published: 01 October 2022
figure 3. The self-regulation of female sexuality from “A Model for the Homeostatic Regulation of Female Sexual Behavior,” World Journal of Psychosynthesis 1, no. 2 ( 1969 ), 73.
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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 (2015) 5 (2): 169–186.
Published: 01 October 2015
.... In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her novel as a significant document in the history oftheorizing sexual and gender de viation...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Serawit B. Debele Abstract Focusing on Ethiopia, an empire off-center, this article argues against dominant narratives that link the regulation of sexual practices to colonial (Western) imperial relations. Within this context, the paper investigates struggles over the past by contrasting two...
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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 (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Rickie Solinger Abstract This autobiographical essay sets up a white middle-class young woman’s emergence as a rights-bearing, choice-making exemplar of sexual freedom and as a holder of intimate racial capital in the 1970s. At the same time, elites and various professional authorities were re...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Abstract This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
...figure 3. The self-regulation of female sexuality from “A Model for the Homeostatic Regulation of Female Sexual Behavior,” World Journal of Psychosynthesis 1, no. 2 ( 1969 ), 73. ...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in response to her marronage by altering the trajectory of the state-sanctioned sexual violence inflicted on her. The conversations between Cecilia and the prison’s authorities that this article unearths constitute an original archive of Cecilia’s assertions while accounting for their heavily mediated and yet...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in the differentiation would be neglected, forgotten. -Luce Irigaray After Luce Irigary's definitive dissection of Freud's ontology of sexual dif ference in Speculum ofthe Other Woman, who would be so ballsy as to return to the topic?1 Who would bother to reconsider the way that Freud's texts recapitulate...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 212–219.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Jack Jackson Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 The Misfortune of Silence JackJackson In the twenty-five years since the publication of Carole Pateman's land mark The Sexual Contract, the politics ofmarriageand the structures of public reasoning situating it have been...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Eric Fassin Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 From Criticism to Critique Eric Fassin We did not see it coming. Or at least, Ididn't. Who would have guessed that the brave new world ofsexual nationalisms would require me/us to one day make a choice between women or sexual...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... areinterestedin, notably thepower ofmen over women:'1 The word has fallen out of favor in the twenty-five years since the publication of The Sexual Co ntract, so we are now at risk ofunderestimating Pateman's remark able achievement in this instant classic. Patemanshows how a modem form of patriarchy took shape...
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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 (2011) 1 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 October 2011
... when the various elements of identity (e.g., name, gender, sexual partner, modes ofconsumption, domestic routines, organs, fantasies, political identifications, emotional bonds) don't line up directly with each other:"I see it's been a ruling intuition for me that the most productive strat egy...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 259–264.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Stefan P. Dudink Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Interventions This and the following paper were first presented at"Sexual Nationalisms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe;' a con ference at the University ofAmsterdam, January 27-28, 2011...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 169–183.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Afsaneh Najmabadi Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Interventions Is Another Language Possible? Afsaneh Najmahadi Overthepast decade, issues ofgender and sexual rights (attimes ensconced within human rights) in Muslim-majority countries have acquired urgent political...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... or viewing dry documentation and unpleasant accounts of horrific abuse.1 Documentation of sexual rights violations, however, confronts problems specific to representing sexuality: what can be shown, without violating taboos about explicitness, good taste, or sala ciousness, and, more importantly, what type...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 213–216.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., as a clinical psychoanalyst. Doing this work, one learns that many patients suffer not from too much repression, but from too little.This becomes all the more crucial when we recognize that our aggressive impulses are every bit as powerful as our sexual ones, a point I neglected to make clearly enough...
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