| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations |
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The long durée of celibacy : Boston marriage, female friendship, and the invention of homosexuality -- Celibate time -- The other Harlem Renaissance : father Divine, celibate economics, and the making of Black sexuality -- The celibate American : closetedness, emigration, and queer citizenship before Stonewall -- Philosophical bachelorhood, philosophical spinsterhood, and celibate modernity |
| Summary |
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Sexual abstinence -- Political aspects -- United States
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Celibacy -- Political aspects -- United States
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Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Arts -- Political aspects.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822377184 |
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0822377187 |
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