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Eroticism, Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

Eroticism, Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

With contributions from distinguished scholars and clinicians who view human erotic desire from modern developmental, relational, societal, and cross-cultural perspectives, Eroticism: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms offers a multifaceted and up-to-date glimpse into what we find sexually attractive and why. While psychoanalysis has unshackled itself from the narrow confines of instinct theory to include ego…

Radical Eroticism, Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s

Radical Eroticism, Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s

In the 1960s, the fascination with erotic art generated a wave of exhibitions and critical discussion on sexual freedom, visual pleasure, and the nude in contemporary art. Radical Eroticism examines the importance of women’s contributions in fundamentally reconfiguring representations of sexuality across several areas of advanced art—performance, pop, postminimalism, and beyond. This study shows that…

Gustav Klimt, Erotic Sketchbook

Gustav Klimt, Erotic Sketchbook

Now available in a new edition, this intimate book captures the sensual pleasure of an artist’s sketchbook as well as the genius behind Gustav Klimt’s vision of women. Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an…

Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire

Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire

Sheldon M. Novick has written an extensive biographical introduction. This is complimented by an essay documenting James’s friendships with younger men, which includes quotations from unpublished letters. Other subjects include the influence on James of the emergence of a specific concept of ‘the homosexual’ and James’s reactions to the aesthetic movement; and there are close…

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…