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Spanish Erotic Cinema

Spanish Erotic Cinema

The first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, from the 1920s until the present dayThis book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in silent films, the volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the…

Tales from the Erotic Edge, A Circlet Omnibus

Tales from the Erotic Edge, A Circlet Omnibus

A Circlet Omnibus In 1992 Circlet Press began publishing erotic science fiction with thin chapbooks which soon became collectors items and are now out of print. This omnibus collects together the complete text of the chapbooks including author’s introductions and prefaces and presents them with a new introduction by Cecilia Tan which traces the development…

Sex and the Goddess, An Intimate Exploration of Woman’s Erotic Spirit and Sacred Sexual Power in Myth, Legend, Life, and History

Sex and the Goddess, An Intimate Exploration of Woman’s Erotic Spirit and Sacred Sexual Power in Myth, Legend, Life, and History

It has been over twenty years since the full manuscript of my book was edited for publication in 1998. I had begun writing it in the previous decade, the 1980’s… a period of flourishing women’s liberation movements against the patriarchal status quo. Books about women’s sexuality and spirituality were flooding the bookstores, and many writers…

Plato’s Erotic World, From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

Plato’s Erotic World, From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

This book examines the fundamental importance of eros in Plato’s writing, which views the human soul as primordially erotic. Challenging the traditional designation of specific dialogues as the “erotic dialogues,” Jill Gordon argues that eros permeates Plato’s fictive world, including the metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations in Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo.