Exploring erotic encounters : : the inescapable entanglement of tradition, transcendence and transgression / / edited by John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen.

Erotic encounters have assumed a myriad of shapes and forms throughout the histories of the world and, at many stages of those histories, have been understood as possessing the potential to take us closer to some ultimate mode of being that the everyday, in all of its artless modesty, seems unable t...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 93.
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen
  • Erotic Spaces
  • ‘For Those People’s Pleasure’: the Pacific Islands and Sailor Eroticism in the 19th Century / John T. Grider
  • Jack’d, Douban Group, and Feizan.com: the Impact of Cyberqueer Techno-Practice on the Chinese Gay Male Experience / Tianyang Zhou
  • Between (Clean) Sheets: the Role of Disgust and Hygiene Strategies in Fifty Shades of Grey and the Writing of the Marquis de Sade / Naomi Stekelenburg
  • Erotic Texts
  • Eros and Polemos: Eroticised Combat in the Trojan War Myth / John Dayton
  • Feminist Pleasure in Fifty Shades of Grey / Rita Dirks
  • Erotic Visuals
  • Queerness Underground: the Abject, the Normal, and Pleasure in Cruising and Interior.Leather Bar / Jon Braddy and Billy Huff
  • One Gentleman and One Lady: Relating Bodies in the Ballroom / Dionne van Reenen
  • Loving Dolls and Robots: From Freedom to Objectification, from Solipsism to Autism? / Maciej Musiał.