Celibacies Kahan Benjamin
Celibacies Kahan Benjamin In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists,…
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Celibacies Kahan Benjamin
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality.
Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual
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