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Author: Magnus Hörnqvist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429589611 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.
Author: Magnus Hörnqvist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429589611 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.
Author: David Lubar Publisher: Millbrook Press ™ ISBN: 1467731463 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
Logan and his friend Benedict run into the wrong guy at the library―literally. When Logan slams into the reference guy in the basement and gives him a little lip, Logan gets punished, really and truly punished. He has three days to complete three tasks before Professor Wordsworth will lift the magical punishment that keeps getting Logan in even more trouble.
Author: Mary Gaitskill Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 1524749141 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 97
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Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Author: Ella Louise Publisher: Eroticalit.com ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 23
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Helen knows from experience that her new boyfriend Mike likes to take things to the extreme in the bedroom. He promises to hurt her, but not leave her permanently injured. But when Helen finds herself tied to his bed, facing a piercing needle and a chastity belt, she'll have to realize that being taken in every hole isn't so terrifying after all.
Author: Penelope Bloom Publisher: ISBN: 9781973164807 Category : Bondage (Sexual behavior) Languages : en Pages : 142
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"Yes, Sir."Two simple words changed my life.One night. Complete surrender. Total submission.That was supposed to be it, but there's one complication,I'm pregnant, and he has no idea. JayceShe was like a bird with a broken wing... something small and delicate that wandered into my club, completely out of place and completely beautiful. One look and I knew I had to have her. I wanted to make her mine, to protect her, to claim her.All these years and I have never taken a submissive, but that's about to change. I'll teach her how sweet surrender can taste, and I'll show her how a real man treats a woman. She'll learn that she'll never feel as free or alive as when she's cuffed and bound, completely at my mercy.MylieI'd sworn off dominant men, locked away my need for submission. I'd given my trust to one too many men who abused it, and all I wanted was to move on. To heal.But one look at Jayce and I knew I'd never met a true dominant before. He radiated power and command. He carried the promise of something better--something real. For just one night, I gave him what I thought I'd never give again: my submission. I let him take me and dominate me. I let him shatter my world with the heat of his body and the brush of his lips on my ear as he whispered the words that were my undoing. "You're mine, princess." But he bound me in more ways than one that night. I'm pregnant, and he has no idea. *As always, this is a totally SAFE, full length standalone book with a happily ever after, no cheating, and plenty of steam. Bonus content included.*
Author: Nia Farrell Publisher: ISBN: 9781975653897 Category : Languages : en Pages : 416
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Elena "Lane" Davenport is a struggling artist who's been living as a man since the Civil War. Suffering from "soldier's heart" (PTSD), facing arrest for failing to officially muster out, Lane is about to lose everything when an offer of help comes from the most unexpected of places. Edward Wainwright is a British history professorr-and Lane/Elena's stepbrother. A dominant man with forbidden passions, he comes to America with news of their mother's death and finds himself twice tempted. There's instant attraction between Lane and Edward. Reclaiming her true gender to slip past the Pinkertons should make things easier...except Edward wants both Elena and her studio assistant Daniel O'Flaherty, who's been fighting his own attraction to "Lane." Edward hopes that Daniel will submit to him, too, but when it comes to Elena, they'll need to learn just how much Daniel is willing to share. Three soulmates are destined to find each other. Chance brings them together. Will fate tear them apart? Written for ages 18+
Author: A.N. Roquelaure Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1405522038 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
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An erotic novel of discipline, love and surrender from master storyteller Anne Rice. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty resumes Beauty's explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire and seduction. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of 'the village,' as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. Once again Anne Rice's classic tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. This is the second of Anne Rice's classic Sleeping Beauty trilogy.
Author: Jeremy Bentham Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 464
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Author: J. M. Beattie Publisher: ISBN: 0198208677 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 519
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This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. At the same time, the City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment - particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labour - that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment. The book investigates why in the century after 1660 the elements of an alternative means of dealing with crime in urban society were emerging in policing, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.
Author: Magnus Hörnqvist
Author: Magnus Hörnqvist
Author: David Lubar
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Author: Ella Louise
Author: Penelope Bloom
Author: Nia Farrell
Author: A.N. Roquelaure
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Author: William Sherlock
Author: J. M. Beattie