'Leo Bersani' in OBA Collectie

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory - his famous meditation on ho...

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, pla...

Examines a broad range of sexual practices, perceptions and taboos in a sociological context. Concentrates particularly on gay culture and sexual politics. Deals also with some of the various uses to which aids has been put, both by the media and the 'm...

Verzameling eerder gepubliceerde essays van o.a. Dorothy Allison, Cindy Patton, Guy Hocquenghem, Leo Bersani en Neil Bartlett over sodomie. In twee delen, resp. The Laws of Desire en Pleasures of Dangers, worden zowel het verbod op als de waarde van gre...

Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame", has often been a meeting-place for the signs 'black' and 'queer' and for black and queer people - overlapping groups who have been so publicly marked as degraded and debased. Bu...

Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflec...

Interview met professor Leo Bersani, naar aanleiding van zijn nieuwe boek, `Homos', waarin Bersani pleit voor een homo/lesbische revolutie, die slechts teweeggebracht kan worden door het zichtbaar maken en benadrukken van een specifieke identiteit, waar...

Een overzicht van enkele homo/lesbische en genderstudies uit de periode 1992-1997 (zoals Leo Bersani, Gilbert Herdt en Annamarie Jagose) roept de vraag op of maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen net zo'n grote invloed hebben op de theorievorming over seksual...