Author: Michael Edward LeBlanc Publisher: ISBN: Category : Urban violence Languages : en Pages : 302
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This dissertation examines a wide range of cultural and literary texts centered on modern and postmodern street life, from the urban gothic fiction of Edgar Allan Poe to the contemporary rap music of 50 Cent. Through my analysis, I discover that the psychic reality involved in fantasy has the power to literally shape "concrete" urban reality in a wide variety of ways: at the point of urban planning when cultural values are applied to a larger design (the 1811 grid plan of New York), at the point of public policy creation when officials make value judgments concerning urban space (the war on drugs), or at the point of everyday life when fantasy shapes how pedestrians experience the street. Examining the pedestrian fantasies surrounding flâneurs , prostitutes, and gangsters, I explore how the mean streets are fashioned by desire.
Author: Mandy Merck Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135200289 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated.
Author: Julie K. Brown Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063000601 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 426
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The New York Times Bestseller “A gripping journalistic procedural… Spotlight meets Erin Brockovich.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times “Julie K. Brown's important book offers not just a definitive account of the Epstein case, but a compelling window into her own experiences as a dogged reporter at a regional newspaper, facing off against powerful interests set against her reporting.” —Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Catch and Kill Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him. For many years, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's penchant for teenage girls was an open secret in the high society of Palm Beach, Florida and Upper East Side, Manhattan. Charged in 2008 with soliciting prostitution from minors, Epstein was treated with unheard of leniency, dictating the terms of his non-prosecution. The media virtually ignored the failures of the criminal justice system, and Epstein's friends and business partners brushed the allegations aside. But when in 2017 the U.S Attorney who approved Epstein's plea deal, Alexander Acosta, was chosen by President Trump as Labor Secretary, reporter Julie K. Brown was compelled to ask questions. Despite her editor's skepticism that she could add a new dimension to a known story, Brown determined that her goal would be to track down the victims themselves. Poring over thousands of redacted court documents, traveling across the country and chasing down information in difficulty and sometimes dangerous circumstances, Brown tracked down dozens of Epstein's victims, now young women struggling to reclaim their lives after the trauma and shame they had endured. Brown's resulting three-part series in the Miami Herald was one of the most explosive news stories of the decade, revealing how Epstein ran a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years, targeting vulnerable teens, often from fractured homes and then turning them into recruiters. The outrage led to Epstein's arrest, the disappearance and eventual arrest of his closest accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the resignation of Acosta. The financier's mysterious suicide in a New York City jail cell prompted wild speculation about the secrets he took to the grave-and whether his death was intentional or the result of foul play. Tracking Epstein’s evolution from a college dropout to one of the most successful financiers in the country—whose associates included Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton—Perversion of Justice builds on Brown's original award-winning series, showing the power of truth, the value of local reportage and the tenacity of one woman in the face of the deep-seated corruption of powerful men.
Author: Sergio Benvenuto Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429923783 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 243
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This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that "paraphilias" today are taken as an ethical failure of the sexual relationship with the other. The perversions signal a specific relationship with the other, who is treated not simply as a sexual object, but someone whose subjectivity is ably exploited precisely in order to get a perverse pleasure. Acts, if considered perverse, are understood as a metaphorical re-edition of a trauma, above all sexual, in which the subject (as a child) suffered the bitter experience of exclusion or jealousy.
Author: Benjamin Robinson Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804762473 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernitythat of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In this way, the study elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? To approach this question, Robinson turns to the remarkable writer Franz Fühmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it means to transform from fascism to socialism. Fühmann's own serial loyalties to Hitler and Stalin inform his existential meditations on change and difference. By placing Fühmann's politically alert and intensely personal literary inventions in the context of an inquiry into radical social rupture, The Skin of the System wrests the brutal materiality of twentieth-century socialism from attempts to provincialize both its desires and its failures as antimodern ideological follies.
Author: S. B. Sebrick Publisher: Golden Bullet Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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Young Kaltor Stratagar tries to see protecting the King's archeological excavation as a welcome escape from the constant Battleborn training, but finds only boredom. Still, mystery thrives in the buried city. A great Vault forged of a mysterious, unbreakable substance, defies every effort to open, until the simple touch of Kaltor's hand. Then, the demon within, awakes. Overnight, hundreds die. The creature leaves no time to mourn, turning its ravenous appetite towards the border city of Shaylis. Kaltor pursues the demon, leaping into a desperate struggle of magic, steel and intrigue. Kaltor must vanquish the creature here, now, before its reach grows too great for even the King's armies to quell. But an even greater threat awaits Kaltor in Shaylis, for even demons find friends in the most useful and unexpected places…
Author: Spencer W. Davis Publisher: ISBN: 9781410798947 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 108
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Larry: The Creation and Destruction of a Child Molester is the telling of two true life stories; one of a mother, frightened, vindictive and controlling and the other of the son she raises, molding him in her own disturbed view of what a "real man" should be. So complete is her domination and so overwhelmed and disinterested is her husband, that Larry becomes the classic pedophile cunning, tyrannical, lonely and afraid. Larry's quest to become the "man" his mother expects him to be propels him on from the abuses of his siblings to failed attempts at normal relationships with women, to burglary, soldiering, homosexuality and rape. Throughout his life, Larry finds that sexual perversion gives him the only sexual arousal that he knows; sadly, it also gives him the only "loving" physical contact that he craves. Eleanora, the mother, is herself the victim of an abusive childhood, an unlucky marriage, tortuous childbirths and bitter adulthood. She is a woman at once pitiful and disgusting, sickening and sad. It is her inner turmoil that drives her to force the family's move to a new house, a pivotal event in the story as it thrusts her back into the workplace and lands Larry in the role of caretaker for his younger brothers and sisters. The story of Eleanora and Larry is told via convergent story lines. The first part of each chapter focuses on Eleanora and the frightening events of her early life. The second part of each chapter shows a parallel event in the life of Larry or his siblings. As Larry reaches adulthood and his perversions escalate, the story catapults toward the climatic event of the book. As Larry sees his sister Jackie marry (and knows he will never again be able to see and stroke her naked body) he makes plans to marry a woman he barely knows, only because she has a young daughter who can become his new victim. When Jackie discovers Larry's plan, she knows he must be stopped even at the risk of her own life. She is joined in the fight by her new husband and ultimately, even Eleanora, the mother in a terrifying struggle to bring Larry's perversity and violence to an end.
Author: J. Peakman Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230244688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 306
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A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
Author: Arnold Goldberg Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300105353 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 220
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Perverse sexual behavior--from mild variations on heterosexual activity to fetishism to cross-dressing--is usually linked to sexual and/or aggressive conflicts in childhood. In this book, Dr. Arnold Goldberg explains and interprets perverse behavior in a different way, by drawing on concepts of psychoanalytic self psychology, a variant of psychoanalysis that originated with Dr. Heinz Kohut and that concentrates on the self as a psychological structure. Psychoanalytic self psychology, says Dr. Goldberg, makes disorders of perversion more understandable and more accessible to treatment. Dr. Goldberg expands the definition of perversion, claiming that it is based on three essential components: sexualization (as distinct from sexuality); vertical splitting (where perverse action resides in the split-off part of the self and the other sector of the self, which knows right from wrong, is temporarily stilled); and psychological family dynamics. Dr. Goldberg explains each of these three dimensions and provides a number of illustrations. He also discusses the possibility of interpreting homosexuality as a compensatory structure, the relation of hostility to perversion, types of perverse behavior that are readily treatable, and the reasonable goals of such treatment.
Author: Michael Edward LeBlanc
Author: Mandy Merck
Author: Julie K. Brown
Author: Sergio Benvenuto
Author: Benjamin Robinson
Author: Michael Edward LeBlanc
Author: S. B. Sebrick
Author: Spencer W. Davis
Author: J. Peakman
Author: Arnold Goldberg