Author(s): Edited by Gemma Clarke, Fiona McQueen, Michaela Pnacekova & Sabrina Sahli
Language: English
Pages: 176
Front Cover......Page 1
Inside Cover......Page 2
ISBN......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface: Gemma Clarke, Fiona McQueen, Michaela Pnacekova &Sabrina Sahli......Page 8
PART I Examining Aspects of Homosexuality......Page 12
Specifics of the Contemporary Czech Homosexual Community: History, Evolution and Ambivalences: Zdeněk Sloboda......Page 14
Recognition and Regulation of Same-Sex Couples in the U. K.: An Exploratory Study of Civil Partnership: Mike Thomas......Page 32
Forms of Resistance to the Organization’s Symbolic Heteronormative Order: Beatrice Gusmano......Page 42
Deconstructing Sexual Identities in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View: Michaela Pňačeková......Page 56
PART II Examining Aspects of Heterosexuality......Page 68
What Drives the Human Sex Drive? Peering into the Portals of Virtual Sex: Derrell Cox II......Page 70
Uncomfortable Territory? The Relationship between Gender, Intoxication and Rape: Gemma Clarke......Page 80
Sex in Transition: Anti-Sexuality and the Church in Post-Communist Poland: Alicja A. Gescinska......Page 98
The Embodiment of Female Sexual Pleasure: Body as Object and Body as Instrument: Fiona McQueen......Page 106
PART III Narrative Discourses......Page 120
Spatial Sexualities: The Private, the Social and the Distinctively Deadly in Othello on Screen: Eleni Pilla......Page 122
Feminine but Macho: Erotic Reshaping of the Self in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album: Ilaria Ricci......Page 130
I Simply am Not There: Sadism and (the Lack Of) Subjectivity in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho: Sabrina Sahli......Page 140
Sade’s Doctrine of Creative Destruction: Caleb Heldt......Page 152
Memory, Excess & the Fictional Self: Andrew Markham......Page 164
