Many Splendored Things
Title | Many Splendored Things PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Paasonen |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1906897840 |
Exploring sex—bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections—in terms of play and playfulness. We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their diverse sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. Yet little attention has been paid to thinking through the interconnections of sex and play, sexuality and playfulness. In Many Splendored Things from Goldsmiths Press, Susanna Paasonen considers these interconnections. Paasonen examines the notions of playfulness and play as they shed light on the urgency of sexual pleasures, the engrossing appeal of sex, and the elasticity of sexual desires, and considers their connection to categories of identity. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship on sexuality, play, and the media, Paasonen moves from the conceptual to the concrete, examining advice literature on sexual play, the vernacular aesthetics of the Fifty Shades series, girls' experiences of online sexual role-playing, popular media coverage of age-play, and Jan Soldat's documentary films on BDSM culture. Paasonen argues that play in the realm of sexuality involves experimentation with what bodies can feel and do and what people may imagine themselves as doing, liking, and preferring. Play involves the exploration of different bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections. Occasionally strained, dark, and even hurtful in the forms that it takes and the sensory intensities that it engenders, sex presses against previously perceived and imagined horizons of embodied potentiality. Play pushes sexual identifications into motion.
A Many-splendoured Thing
Title | A Many-splendoured Thing PDF eBook |
Author | Suyin Han |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Many-splendoured Thing
Title | A Many-splendoured Thing PDF eBook |
Author | Suyin Han |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Novelists, Chinese |
ISBN |
God's Many-Splendored Image
Title | God's Many-Splendored Image PDF eBook |
Author | Verna E. F. Harrison |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2010-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 080103471X |
This fresh approach to theological anthropology applies patristic wisdom to contemporary discussions of what it means to be human.
The Oxford Handbook of Exercise Psychology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Exercise Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund O. Acevedo |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 538 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0195394313 |
This Handbook is an authoritative and comprehensive presentation of the breadth and depth of empirical contributions utilizing state-of-the-science theories and approaches in exercise psychology. The information presented in this text highlights the public health challenge of increasing participation in physical activity to enhance physical and mental health.
Red Love Across the Pacific
Title | Red Love Across the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Rabinowitz |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2015-09-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137507039 |
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century. Encouraging both political and sexual liberation, Red Love was a transnational movement demonstrating the revolutionary potential of love and desire.
How They Met and Other Stories
Title | How They Met and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | David Levithan |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2008-01-08 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375849424 |
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.