Otherness, Sexuality, and Space: Affiliations between Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples

This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established prescriptive mandates for female use of space, concentrating especially on the liminal spaces of the home. This work traces literary prostitution in the Spanish Mediterranean through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the rise of courtesan culture in several key areas through the shift from tolerance of prostitution toward repression. Kuffner’s analysis pairs canonical and noncanonical works of fiction with didactic writing, architectural treatises, and legal mandates, tying the literary practice of prostitution to increasing control over female sexuality during the Counter Reformation. By tracing erotic negotiations in the female picaresque novel from its origins through later manifestations, she demonstrates that even as societal attitudes towards prostitution shifted dramatically, a countervailing tendency to view prostitution as an essential part of the social fabric undergirds many representations of literary prostitutes. Kuffner’s analysis reveals that the semblance of domestic enclosure figures as a primary erotic strategy in female picaresque fiction, allowing readers to assess the variety of strategies used by authors to comment on the relationship between unruly female sexuality and social order.

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Nan Prince and the Golden Apples

After the Fall ◽

10.5325/j.ctv14gp22v.6 ◽

1989 ◽

pp. 31-42

Keyword(s):

Golden Apples

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Time for Sex

Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 ◽

10.1525/california/9780520293373.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ishita Pande

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Sexual Behavior ◽

Sex Education ◽

Life Cycles ◽

The Body ◽

Clock Time ◽

Men And Women ◽

English Translations ◽

Sexuality And Space ◽

Women In India

This chapter examines attempts to standardize, internalize, and globalize sexual temporality—captured in the conceptualization of the body as clock—in the sexological advice offered to men and women in India in the early twentieth century. It first describes the constitution of “Hindu erotica” during the period and how these English translations gave rise to a set of foundational texts that would become the basis of global/Hindu sexology while filling them up with clock time. It then considers the ways that these texts attached life cycles to the chronological ordering of time by recasting brahmacharya—a prescription for a stage of life devoted to celibacy and learning—as an age-stratified organization of sexual behavior and a schema for sex education. By using the example of bodily temporality, the chapter addresses questions of sexuality and space in relation to globalization and transnational capitalism, colonialism and development.

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LASER LIGHT BASED MACHINE VISION SYSTEM FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE RIPENESS SENSING OF GOLDEN APPLES

Control Applications in Post-Harvest and Processing Technology 1995 ◽

10.1016/b978-0-08-042598-6.50020-5 ◽

1995 ◽

pp. 117-123 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

F. Duprat ◽

H. Chen ◽

M. Grotte ◽

D. Loonis ◽

E. Pietri

Keyword(s):

Machine Vision ◽

Laser Light ◽

Vision System ◽

Machine Vision System ◽

Golden Apples

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Sexuality and Space

Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198233923.003.0024 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Glen Elder ◽

Lawrence Knopp

Keyword(s):

Sexuality Research ◽

Political Will ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

Professional Interest ◽

Per Se ◽

Sexuality And Space ◽

The Right

. . . I have noticed with some dismay in recent years the appearance of tables representing various strange groups attending meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Marxist Geographers and Gay Geographers come to mind, and I wonder what next? Are we going to have a table of Whores in Geography, and Russian Communist Geography? . . . As for special tables, rooms and meeting times for such groups as Gay Geographers, we should flatly refuse any such groups the right to such representation. When engaging in their gay behavior they are not acting as geographers. . . . Our exclusion of such groups cannot be taken as a moralistic stand on the part of the Association, but simply as a professional one. It is not our business to support the Gay or the Street Walkers, or the Democrats or the Republicans. None of these groups, though they may have members or practitioners in geography, can be said to be geographers, per se. They should then not be permitted official or even associative status at our meetings. We have plenty to do in geography, and room for greater diversity of professional interest than almost any other society. There are, however, limits. We should confine our meetings to geography by geographers and for geographers. All others keep out. Carter (1977: 101–2) . . . In 1996, the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group (SSSG) came into being as a forum for addressing the sorts of sentiments expressed in the letter above, and for exploring the unquestioned heterosexuality of the geographical enterprise. While the sentiments expressed may seem extreme, they point to disciplinary resistances to certain lines of inquiry. The comments and the subsequent creation of the SSSG reveal how the topical contours of geography are, and always have been, politically negotiated. Until recently, sexuality research in geography had been considered especially out of place (see Valentine 1998; Chouinard and Grant 1995). Organized collectively under the aegis of the AAG, the SSSG represents considerable political will and work. Its presence underscores how marginalized groups can never take for granted their place in society, including the academy.

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