For both formats the functionality available will depend on how you access the ebook (via Bookshelf Online in your browser or via the Bookshelf app on your PC or mobile device). David Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece.
Contents[show] Biography Halperin graduated from Oberlin College and went on to receive his PhD in Classics from Stanford University in 1980. Where the content of the eBook requires a specific layout, or contains maths or other special characters, the eBook will be available in PDF (PBK) format, which cannot be reflowed. This problematizes easy questions of desire for members of one's own (perceived) sex or the opposite and renders the categories somewhat unstable.Discussions of sexuality are further complicated by work around questions of essentialism and construction of gender and sex. While the double women are barely mentioned at all and the androgynes are the male-female couplings that continue the species, the double-male humans are given a separate commentary. Such nuances trouble the standard categories of sexuality in modern discourse.In his own work, Halperin also points to the comical creation narrative recounted by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, by Plato.
The modern concept of sexuality is a scientific David M. Halperin, John J.
Routledge & CRC Press eBooks are available through VitalSource. The Greek term However, his sexual encounters are not exclusively same-sexed. The free VitalSource Bookshelf® application allows you to access to your eBooks whenever and wherever you choose.Most VitalSource eBooks are available in a reflowable EPUB format which allows you to resize text to suit you and enables other accessibility features. There is no room here for two grown men of equal stature to enter into a sexual relationship–the hallmark of the modern category of homosexuality.Halperin first deals with models of effeminacy that do not have analogs within our own time. His primary objective is to experience further forms of sexual gratification, so in addition to becoming objectified through penetration, the Halperin notes that modern readings often confuse the Expanding on his earlier work, Halperin introduces Many epic tales from the Greco-Roman period explore deeply affectionate relationships that, under the suspicious eye of modern discourses of sexuality, would be read as homosexual rather than simply homosocial.Halperin suggests that modern discourses of homosexuality are clouded and destabilized because they are built (consciously or not) on earlier categories. David Halperin’s acute attention to gay male sensibility provides a great case study in how sexuality takes shape as such, finding anchors for the expression of its pleasures and its dramas. This is because in each case, the citizen must perform in the active role, penetrating his sexual partner. So Zeus divided each human into two halves.Subsequently the humans searched around for their other halves, and when they found them, embraced each other in an attempt to become whole again. Building on Foucault's work, David Halperin contributes to the exploration of sexuality as a discursive formation in two of his books. However, as their worship and veneration was needed, it was not possible to kill them all. In modern categories of sexuality, we might be prone to call this citizen bisexual, yet the term is not a precise fit. Up to now, we have assumed that there are easy working definitions for man and woman or male and female, but the work of a second set of theorists has had the effect of disrupting assumptions here as well.I'm glad I stumbled onto your blog. These noble creatures, Aristophanes tells us, give rise to youths who search for older men and the older men who search out the youths for erotic relationships.Unlike the other two types of humans, Plato's account clearly points out the age difference (and societal ranking) of the partners involved in this relationship.