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The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
In the difficult yet rewarding book Burrus offers “countererotic” readings of fourth- and fifth-century CE hagiographies in which she challenges understandings that take ascetic lives of saints as sublimating sexual desire; rather, Burrus reads these texts as the site of an “exuberant eroticism” that constantly relocates and displaces erotic desire. After an introductory chapter, Burrus first focuses on Jerome’s “queer” Lives of Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion. A second chapter treats the eroticized lives of three women: Jerome’s friend Paula, Gregory of Nyssa’s sister Macrina, and Augustine’s mother, Monica. A third chapter focuses on several treatments of Martin of Tours in …
Campus Sexual Misconduct As Sexual Harassment: A Defense Of The Doe, Katharine K. Baker
Campus Sexual Misconduct As Sexual Harassment: A Defense Of The Doe, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
Implicit Theories Of Attraction, Vanessa K. Bohns, Abigail A. Scholer, Uzma Rehman
Implicit Theories Of Attraction, Vanessa K. Bohns, Abigail A. Scholer, Uzma Rehman
Vanessa K. Bohns
Sexual satisfaction is an important component of relationship well-being within romantic relationships. Yet, relatively little is known about the psychological factors that predict responses to the inevitable sexual challenges couples face. Four studies provide evidence that implicit theories of sexual attraction as either fixed or malleable predict responses to sexual challenges. In Studies 1 and 2, individual differences in these beliefs predicted (above and beyond other implicit theories, relationship beliefs, and measures of sexual desire) perceptions of success for a relationship lacking sexual chemistry. In Study 3, these beliefs predicted actual relationship outcomes in committed couples. Finally, in Study 4, …
What Counts As Prostitution.Pdf, Stuart Green
What Counts As Prostitution.Pdf, Stuart Green
Stuart Green
Angry Employees, Susan D. Carle
Angry Employees, Susan D. Carle
Susan D. Carle