This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history
of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities …

Dance orients the performer's body toward both environment and pleasure, yet the
intersection of environmental and sexual attunement in dance practice remains an …

In Victorian society, admiration for the 'creative genius' abounded. It was based on
stereotypical notions of the Romantic artist, who,'by the neat and necessarily contradictory …

This dissertation is a historical study of pleasure as a form of relational thought. The interest
of the project is historical, formal, and theoretical: How did sexuality come to signify the …

Growing awareness of shame's presence and problems in the West has drawn increasing
levels of attention to the topic in Western scholarship. In the face of this attention on shame …

Regularly, we are told that violent pornography is penetrating our homes through our
computers. This representation of pornography as an advanced, growing and dangerous …

This thesis disrupts the labelling of homogenous feminist narratives by positioning feminist
identity as a relationship between an individual's understanding of self and her place within …

This dissertation, titled “Artificial Aliens: Reproductive Imaginations in German Culture,”
studies how reproductive processes in biology and the arts evoke similar cultural anxieties …