Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Bohemian Club, San Francisco. 1872, a Chronicle of Our Years
Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A Chronicle of Our Years
Author: A Chronicle of Our Years
Author: The Annals of the Bohemian Club
Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Annals of the Bohemian Club
Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Queer Compulsions
Author: Amy H. SueyoshiPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861175
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Recently arrived in California, Noguchi was in awe of the established writer and the two had struck up a passionate correspondence. Still, he viewed their relationship as doomed—not by the scandal of their same-sex affections, but their introverted dispositions and differences in background. In a poem dedicated to his “dearest Charlie,” Noguchi wrote: “Thou and I, O Charles, sit alone like two shy stars, east and west!” While confessing his love to Stoddard, Noguchi had a child (future sculptor Isamu Noguchi) with his editor, Léonie Gilmour; became engaged to Washington Post reporter Ethel Armes; and upon his return to Japan married Matsu Takeda—all within a span of seven years. According to author Amy Sueyoshi, Noguchi was not a dedicated polyamorist: He deliberately deceived the three women, to whom he either pretended or promised marriage while already married. She argues further that Noguchi’s intimacies point to little-known realities of race and sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and illuminate how Asian immigrants negotiated America’s literary and arts community. As Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences, his affairs additionally assert how Japanese in America could forge romantic fulfillment during a period historians describe as one of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Moreover, Noguchi’s relationships reveal how individuals who engaged in seemingly defiant behavior could exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. His unexpected intimacies in fact relied upon existing social hierarchies of race, sexuality, gender, and nation that dictated appropriate and inappropriate behavior. In fact, Noguchi, Stoddard, Gilmour, and Armes at various points contributed to the ideological forces that compelled their intimate lives. Through the romantic life of Yone Noguchi, Queer Compulsions narrates how even the queerest of intimacies can more provocatively serve as a reflection of rather than a revolt from existing social inequality. In unveiling Noguchi’s interracial and same-sex affairs, it attests to the complex interaction between lived sexualities and socio-legal mores as it traces how one man negotiated affection across cultural, linguistic, and moral divides to find fulfillment in unconventional yet acceptable ways. Queer Compulsions will be a welcome contribution to Asian American, gender, and sexuality studies and the literature on male and female romantic friendships. It will also forge a provocative link between these disciplines and Asian studies.
The Bohemian Club, San Francisco
Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats
Author: G. William DomhoffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780060903954
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Bohemian Club, San Francisco
Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Who Rules America Now?
Author: G. William DomhoffPublisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.