Remaking Verse in the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Abigail Williams
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Aphra Behn ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Commonplace Books ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Publishing Policy ◽  
And Gender

The immensely popular eighteenth-century poetic miscellany was more than simply a collection of poems: the selection and presentation of texts constituted a deliberate, market-focused, editorial, and publishing policy that emphasized novelty and utility. Poems were edited, abridged, and repackaged in a variety of ways as they were appropriated to their editors’ ends. This chapter examines the scale and variety of poetic miscellany publication, the strategies of their creators, and the audience expectations they both generated and met, to show that they demonstrate the literary or market preoccupations of the editors and booksellers, often in a manner akin to the practice of commonplace books. Particular attention is paid to issues of sexuality and gender in relation to the re-presentation of the poems of Aphra Behn. The chapter draws evidence from a wide range of publications, including John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, Robert Dodsley, and Edward Bysshe’s Art of English Poetry.

American Folk Art and Crafts

2019 ◽  
pp. 395-424
Author(s):  
C. Kurt Dewhurst ◽  
Marsha MacDowell
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Gender And Health ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

This chapter addresses the wide range of folk art and crafts related to the study of those who make, use, and find meaning in the handmade object in America. The definitions of folk, popular, visionary, outsider, and fine arts have long been challenged and reassessed by scholarly and public communities, communities that sometimes but not always overlap. Debates have raged over the boundaries between art and craft, the viability of the handmade traditional object in the digital, postmodern age, and the discernible distinctive aesthetic characteristics of this body of American expressive culture. This chapter presents a flexible, interdisciplinary perspective on defining folk art and craft in America. It also offers avenues for folk art and craft scholarship such as relationships of aging, human rights, migration, sexuality and gender, and health to the study of folk artists and their communities, and encourages building on the legacy of material culture scholarship from the collections and research of museums and governmental agencies in addition to higher education institutions.

Fable and Allegory

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Gillian Wright
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Aphra Behn ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Anne Finch

Between the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, fable—already a well-established didactic mode, often directed towards children—came increasingly to be used for satirical purposes. The work of three important writers—Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and Anne Finch—illustrates both the range and the particularity of fables during this period. While, collectively, these poets’ work differs greatly in terms of form, style, and appropriative methods, all three were strong royalists (later Jacobites) whose fables were devised to serve broadly pro-Stuart ends. This chapter investigates why fable rose to prominence during the fraught years before and after the 1688 Revolution, and how its literary properties were differentially exploited by Behn, Dryden, and Finch (given the varying political and publishing circumstances in which each was working). It also considers the reasons for the decline of the satirical fable in the mid-eighteenth century.

scholarly journals Sex, Sexuality and Gender-Related Issues in Child Psychiatric Practice: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 236-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Sravanti ◽  
Satish Chandra Girimaji
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Fetal Life ◽  
Clinical Issue ◽  
Child Psychiatric ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

In child and adolescent psychiatric practice, it is important for a clinician to be aware of contexts in which children are brought with concerns related to sexual behaviors. Johnson described a continuum of natural and healthy behaviors to sexually aggressive behaviors. Sexual development begins in fetal life and continues through infancy, childhood, and adolescence along characteristic pathways. Typically, developing children exhibit a wide range of sexual behaviors. Children and adolescents may display increased or deviant sexual behavior as a result of certain stressors, traumatic experiences, or psychiatric illnesses. This has been emerging as an important clinical issue over the past few years. It is important to distinguish between normal behaviors and disordered behaviors before planning any intervention. This article summarizes the sexuality- and gender-related issues that are encountered in child and adolescent psychiatric practice.

Catholicism & Sexuality: The Sounds of Silence

Horizons ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Patrick T. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Unknown Number ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Sexual Ethic ◽  
And Gender

ABSTRACTThe episcopal silence and secrecy associated with the recent pedophilia scandal echoes a larger inability of the Catholic episcopal hierarchy to enter into open and honest dialogue about a wide range of sexual issues. For more than three decades the chasm between official teachings on sexuality and gender and the belief and/or practice of the majority of Catholic laity, clergy and theologians (and an unknown number of bishops) has been growing. Still, attempts to address or bridge this divide have met with a fourfold silence. It is a silence that has kept bishops from speaking their true minds, a silence sought by restricting, investigating and sanctioning theologians, a silence that renders pastors mute or covert on sexual matters, and a silence that ignores the experience and voices of women. Such a silence undermines magisterial authority and deprives Catholics of a useful and persuasive sexual ethic, while marginalizing those willing to speak out and demoralizing those who feel they cannot.

DSM-5 alcohol use disorder features among treatment-seeking older adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Behrendt ◽  
Barbara Braun ◽  
Randi Bilberg ◽  
Gerhard Bühringer ◽  
Michael Bogenschutz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Treatment Seeking ◽  
Controlled Clinical Trial ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Gender ◽  
International Multicenter

Abstract. Background: The number of older adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD) is expected to rise. Adapted treatments for this group are lacking and information on AUD features in treatment seeking older adults is scarce. The international multicenter randomized-controlled clinical trial “ELDERLY-Study” with few exclusion criteria was conducted to investigate two outpatient AUD-treatments for adults aged 60+ with DSM-5 AUD. Aims: To add to 1) basic methodological information on the ELDERLY-Study by providing information on AUD features in ELDERLY-participants taking into account country and gender, and 2) knowledge on AUD features in older adults seeking outpatient treatment. Methods: baseline data from the German and Danish ELDERLY-sites (n=544) were used. AUD diagnoses were obtained with the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, alcohol use information with Form 90. Results: Lost control, desired control, mental/physical problem, and craving were the most prevalent (> 70 %) AUD-symptoms. 54.9 % reported severe DSM-5 AUD (moderate: 28.2 %, mild: 16.9 %). Mean daily alcohol use was 6.3 drinks at 12 grams ethanol each. 93.9 % reported binging. More intense alcohol use was associated with greater AUD-severity and male gender. Country effects showed for alcohol use and AUD-severity. Conclusion: European ELDERLY-participants presented typical dependence symptoms, a wide range of severity, and intense alcohol use. This may underline the clinical significance of AUD in treatment-seeking seniors.

Every Detail Counts: Robert Stoller, Perversion and the Production of Pornography

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Escoffier
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Pornographic Film ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Do So

After the publication of his pioneering book Sexual Excitement in 1979, Robert Stoller devoted the last 12 years of his life to the study of the pornographic film industry. To do so, he conducted an ethnographic study of people working in the industry in order to find out how it produced ‘perverse fantasies’ that successfully communicated sexual excitement to other people. In the course of his investigation he observed and interviewed those involved in the making of pornographic films. He hypothesized that the ‘scenarios’ developed and performed by people in the porn industry were based on their own perverse fantasies and their frustrations, injuries and conflicts over sexuality and gender; and that the porn industry had developed a systematic method and accumulated a sophisticated body of knowledge about the production of sexual excitement. This paper explores Stoller's theses and shows how they fared in his investigation.

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