White Womanhood, Sexuality, and Empire
Sita Balani examines the regulation of white women’s sexuality in the British colonies.
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Posts tagged: valentines-day
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Emotional Reproduction
"It is mostly through intimate relationships that we reproduce ourselves emotionally, and that we create our sense of authentic subjectivity. But these relationships are often in themselves a source of pain and frustration." - Alva Gotby
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Domestic Violence Is a Housing Problem
"The home is often not a space of refuge." — Alva Gotby
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Lay All Your Love On Me
What would it mean to theorise love as a form of labour? How can we think of our emotional dependency on other people in political terms, rather than as expressions of individual and interior subjectivity?
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The Unknowns of Sexual Desire
Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.
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A love that is home
“I love you. We get to make up what that storied word means.”
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Love and Revolution: The Inessa-Lenin-Krupskaya triangle
“If you fall in love with a struggle, it is easy to fall in love with those who share that struggle and vice versa.” -
Masturbation Manifesto 1997
"Could it be that independent orgasms might lead to independent thoughts?" -
A Hitchcock Blonde in Paris | Bluebeard's Castle
Anna Biller captures the seductively luxurious glamour of a honeymoon in Paris in her gothic novel Bluebeard’s Castle.
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Sex and Self-Knowledge: Beyond Consent
Good sex shouldn't depend on faultless self-knowledge. Katherine Angel puts forward the case for desire's emergent and contextual nature.
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The Singles Manifesto
Marie Edwards' powerful feminist manifesto from 1974.
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Love in the Feminist City
From Charlotte Brontë to Carrie Bradshaw, via Betty Friedan: Leslie Kern on how urban architecture has expanded and constrained women's freedom to live independently and without men.
