Practicing Sex.
This essay approaches "sexuality" as encompassing both sex acts and the knowledge relations they entail. Concatenating these two concepts as a hyphenated sexual-logistical knowledge, this essay argues that attending simultaneously to the phenomenology, epistemology, and pedagogy of sex acts--to what...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 85 - 117 |
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