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TL;DR: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana was used in discourses about sex in the United States in the early 1960s and its political charge and its potential for offering alternatives to traditional sex-related ideologies as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana took part in discourses about sex in the United States in the early 1960s Initial reactions to it display its political charge and its potential for offering alternatives to traditional sex-related ideologies A discussion of historical context and close analysis of early commentary and reviews show, in detail, how the Kama Sutra cut against familiar racial, cultural, class, gender, and sexual biases Chantal Mouffe's political philosophy of radical and plural democracy is used to make sense of these initial responses, laying out the implications of the Kama Sutra as both political antagonist and political enemy In the process, implications of this analysis for the Kama Sutra's role in US sex discourses, in particular, and the political role that sex literature and other antagonistic discourses play in democratic politics, in general, are discussed
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TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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TL;DR: Spadt et al. as mentioned in this paper summarized the integration of sexuality and religion in a review of published literature and religious texts and concluded that the extent to which an individual incorporates their religious doctrine into their sexual life is a personal and individualized choice.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the variety and arrangement of the Joy of Sex entries dramatized and sold an idealized heterosexuality to readers but reduced the meaning of "lovemaking" in the process.
Abstract: In turbulent times in U.S. sexual history, Alex Comfort's popular sex manual The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking served up an exciting yet reassuring menu of sexual practice. More than simply reflecting attitudes, The Joy of Sex participated in shaping the discourses of sex and sexuality of its day. This rhetorical and cultural critique of The Joy of Sex argues that the variety and arrangement of its recipe-book-like entries, compelling illustrations, and other rhetorical elements dramatized and sold an idealized heterosexuality to readers but reduced the meaning of “lovemaking” in the process.
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