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John Potvin

John Potvin is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Canada, where he teaches on the intersections of art, interior design and fashion. He is the author of Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2014), Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses (Ashgate, 2013) and Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding (Ashgate, 2008). He is also editor of The Places and Spaces of Fashion (Routledge, 2009) and co-editor of Material Cultures, 1740-1920: The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting (Ashgate, 2010) and Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity (Ashgate, 2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book Chapter

...Oriental interiors mark highly contested terrains and fraught spaces for the perceptions, conceptions and lived performances of gender and sexuality. The gendering of interior space in the East, differently though it is understood...

Introduction

Liz Conor

Liz Conor is Research Fellow in the Dept of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s and co-editor of Double Take: Colonial Visualities. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...The modern era has again and again been defined not only by innovative ideas, technologies, and modes of production but by the velocity of their circulation and exchange. The ethos of modernity has been characterized as voluble, skittish...

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Kim M. Phillips

Kim M. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and author of Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1275-1540 and co-author of Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages Volume 2

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...Who are women? Who are they? Are they serpents, wolves, lions, dragons, vipers, or rapacious, devouring beasts and enemies of humanity? Then read this Art [of Love]: learn how to invent ruses! Take them forcefully! Deceive them! Insult...

Prostitution

Raelene Frances

Raelene Frances

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Cultural History Chapter

...In 1877 the newly installed governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Pope-Hennessy, learned to his dismay that two Chinese women, A-Sau and Tai-Yau, had fallen to their deaths while being chased across rooftops of the brothel district by officers...

Love, Sex, and Sexuality, 1650–1800

Katherine Crawford

Katherine Crawford

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Cultural History Chapter

...In his treatise on impotence, the lawyer Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d’Argis maintained that marriage was “at once a union of bodies and of souls, it has become a source of grace and a beneficial asylum, where those who have not received...

Protest and Persecution, 1914–45

Laura A. Belmonte

Laura A. Belmonte is Professor of History at Oklahoma State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The International LGBT Rights Movement : A History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Book Chapter

...The outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 brought nascent transnational organizing efforts to a standstill. Although wartime tensions exacerbated suspicions about homosexuals, the conflict also created opportunities for gay men and women...

Heterosexuality: Europe and North America

Anna Clark

Anna Clark

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Cultural History Chapter

...In eighteenth century Europe, historians have claimed, people started to have more procreative, penetrative, heterosexual sex. The evidence can be seen in the dramatic rise in the number of births inside and outside of marriage.Henry...

Ordinary Masculinity: Gender Analysis and Holocaust Scholarship

Stephen R. Haynes

Stephen R. Haynes

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Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century : A Comparative Survey

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book Chapter

...Gentlemen, if there is ever a generation after us so cowardly, so soft, that it would not understand our work as good and necessary, then, gentlemen, National Socialism will have been for nothing. On the contrary we should bury bronze...

Gender and the Home: Archaeological Perspectives

Eva Svensson

Eva Svensson

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A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age Volume 2

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Cultural History Chapter

...‘When Adam dalf (dug) and Eve span (spun) . . .’‘I write of the good behavior and deeds of ladies and gentle women, who because their goodness, were worshipped, honored, praised, and revered in time passed and will be forever because...

Artistic Representation

Mary Rogers

Mary Rogers

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A Cultural History of Women in the Renaissance Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...What sort of a Renaissance did women have in relation to the visual arts? Answers have naturally been diverse. The existence and the careers of female artists have received attention in exhibitions, and their critical reception examined...