Queer Pleasure Without Apology

Queer Pleasure Without ApologyApproaches stigmatized sex with candor and curiosity, interweaving experience and analysis to better appreciate the intricacies and intrigue of queer desires and pleasures. Queer theorists have long defended stigmatized sexual desires and behaviors by demonstrating how they are either fundamentally harmless or have some higher political, psychological, or social value. While such defenses may be useful in combatting homophobia, the mandate that sex be

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Forty-one black-and-white photographs taken by the author accompany and enliven the text

Taking a fundamentally post-psychoanalytical approach

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examines the development of feminist therapy

is one of the most important centers for the development and continued thriving of the Coptic monastic tradition

Drawing from philosophy and psychology

the relation of thought to its object

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providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet